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Miracle in Massachusetts – Monroe Journal – August 9, 2018
“Providence would seem to sleep unless faith and prayer awaken it. The disciples had but little faith in their master's accounts, yet that little faith awakened him in a storm, and he rescued them.” Stephen Charnock February 18, 1952 – Coast Guard...
The Hungry Years – Monroe Journal – June 16, 2022
“I came to Nashville thinking that opportunity just hung on trees and that all I had to do was take out my guitar and sing. I thought they would paint my name on the water tower, but there's nothing colder than reality. I wouldn’t trade a thing – even the tough times...
Hubble Needs Glasses – Monroe Journal – June 9, 2022
“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” Edward R. Murrow May 20, 1990 – Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas: The Hubble telescope team of scientists, astronomers, engineers and physicists eagerly awaited the first pictures from the...
The Shots Heard ‘Round the World – Monroe Journal – Oct 30, 2018
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it generation after generation.” Pearl S. Buck September 21, 1913 - U.S. Open Golf Tournament - Brookline, Massachusetts: It was the kind of moment that boys...
Open the Eyes of the King – Monroe Journal – December 14, 2017
“The ability of God is beyond our prayers, beyond our largest prayers. We have asked for a cupful and the ocean remains.” John Henry Jowett 1401 A.D. London, England: King Henry IV declared that religious heretics would be burned at the stake. Seven...
Rick’s Dream – Monroe Journal – October 20, 2016
“If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big enough.” Richard Branson Easter Sunday – 1980 – Laguna Hills, California: Rick shared his dream for the new church with the 60 people gathered at Laguna Hills High School. “It is my dream that Saddleback Church...
Don’t Let Them Breakthrough – Monroe Journal – July 21, 2015
“Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large, or petty, never give in, except to convictions of honor or good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." Winston Churchill ...
Her Utmost For His Highest – Monroe Journal – May 26, 2022
“For each of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.” Thomas Merton November 16, 1917 – Cairo, Egypt: The funeral possession slowly crossed the Nile River to a British military...
The Musician – Monroe Journal – September 13, 2018
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as the expectation of something tomorrow.” Orison Swett Marden Early 2005, Pershing Park – Los Angeles, California: Steve Lopez, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times...
The Reluctant Artist – Monroe Journal – April 4, 2019
Don’t listen to those who say, “It’s not done that way.” Maybe it’s not, but maybe you’ll do it anyway. Don’t listen to those who say, “You’re taking too big a chance.” Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out today. ...
