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We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers Knowing how to inspire and [5] lead others is an essential manly attribute. In Shakespeare’s Henry V, King Henry exemplifies manliness in action as he rallies his army against the highly skilled French knights. In his “Saint Crispin’s Day” speech, Henry V speaks of glory, honor, and brotherhood- all ideals that inspire even the most despairing and downtrodden of men. Read this fictional, and yet powerful speech when you’re feeling unmotivated and depressed. It will stir you to focus on the legacy you are building and will pass on to your...

One of my comments on Free Republic was that this video is a waste of Bandwidth. I wish all to know that we are like my pig, Jubilant; unless we cross a fine line of repents and be converted to a sinless life. A pig is pig, unless a miracles change has taken place. The Lord says in his word to be Holy as He is Holy. When we come to Christ, we must try to change our old way and become a new creature.

THE INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES BY MR. ALEXANDER STEWART, OF GLASGOW. (At the Glasgow Conference, June, 1894.) The subject upon which I have to address you is the Inspiration of the Scriptures; that is, the peculiar character which these writings have because they have been breathed by the Holy Ghost. I wish to speak of some passages in the twenty-fourth chapter of the Gospel of Luke where our Lord Jesus Christ refers to them. I think there is a parallel between the fifty-third and fifty-fourth chapter of Isaiah and the twenty-third and twenty-fourth chapters of Luke. In the fifty-third chapter...

OMAHA, Neb., July 30, 2008 – Nearly 500 disabled veterans closed the 28th National Veterans Wheelchair Games here last night celebrating new friendships made, new pride in what they’ve accomplished, and confidence in their abilities. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Anthony Felder, participating in his second National Veterans Wheelchair Games in Omaha, Neb., said he was thrilled when his team won the coveted gold medal in basketball, but he gained even more sharing stories and experiences with fellow participants. Felder lost his left leg in a 2006 motorcycle accident but has received approval to remain on active duty as an...

"There but for the grace of God go I." The phrase is usually a cautionary note. My neighbor's blunder could have been mine. My co-worker's illness could easily be my affliction. I ought to count my blessings. But the flipside of the phrase is pregnant with promise, and many Americans felt it when they learned that radio-broadcaster phenom Rush Limbaugh, who marks his 20th year "of broadcast excellence" this summer, is making media history with a new $400 million contract. Sure, many right-wingers were happy just to know that "El Rushbo" is making more than Katie Couric. "That could be...

This animated video, with a flowery and busy hummingbird scene has been created to inspire others to get busy for the Lord Jesus and what His will is for their lives. The Scriptures given are taken from the King James Version of the New Testament and the verses are Hebrews 11:6, Luke 2:49 and Romans 12:2. The music is an instrumental of the hymn, “I Need Thee Every Hour”.

This animated video, with a flowery and busy hummingbird scene has been created to inspire others to get busy for the Lord Jesus and what His will is for their lives. The Scriptures given are taken from the King James Version of the New Testament and the verses are Hebrews 11:6, Luke 2:49 and Romans 12:2. The music is an instrumental of the hymn, “I Need Thee Every Hour”.

The religious left of this country seems to delight in mocking the laws of the Old Testament and in making fun of anyone who thinks that these laws should be regarded as part of the inspired word of God. It's amazing how often their sneering attempts at humor simply ignore long-established Christian ideas on how to study the Old Testament and how to apply it to our lives. Jesus and the apostles themselves emphasized the importance of the Hebrew scriptures. Jesus told his followers that he hadn't come to destroy the law or the prophets but to fulfill them. The...

Browsing through an American bookshop does not lift the spirits. Books that chart the end of American supremacy, predict wars over finite natural resources, study the squeezed middle class or the catastrophic Bush presidency proliferate. The United States is going through a period of introspection and the Boston bookshelves, at which I spent part of last week, heave with the results. In one respect, it is hardly surprising. Iraq, Afghanistan and the rise of China. The credit crunch. The $124 a barrel oil price. The unbelievable unfairness of Bush's tax cuts. The racism and violence that still pockmark American life....

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2008 – The simple request for a “mom hug” from a young Marine serving in Iraq ignited one mom’s desire to inspire all servicemembers. Gail Lynne Goodwin launched “Inspire Me Today,” a Web site devoted to inspirational content, just 12 days ago, but the idea had been simmering for years. “Inspire Me Today was something I’ve wanted to do. It’s been my personal passion, I guess you would say,” Goodwin said. “When a person is inspired, the world changes exponentially.” As any good mom might do, however, Goodwin put her dream of launching the Web site...

Col. Gadson with the Giants and Coach Coughlin at his left. He had just delivered the football more than 80 times to Eli Manning from a squatting position in subzero temperatures. The last thing New York Giants center Shaun O'Hara wanted to do Sunday night was bend down yet again. But as O'Hara stood in the nearly emptied visitors' locker room at Lambeau Field and talked about his team's 23-20 overtime victory over the Green Bay Packers in the NFC championship game, he stopped in mid-sentence and leaned forward to clasp hands with a man in a wheelchair whom he...

WASHINGTON – Sgt. Klay South with help from this mother Janet launched Veterans of Valor on October 4, 2007. South was wounded November 2004 and spent a long recovery process to reconstruct his face and jaw after being shot in the face with an AK-47. Veterans of Valor visited Bethesda Naval Hospital and Walter Reed Army Medical Center January 17 to give backpacks and words of encouragement to wounded service members. BETHESDA, Md. – Cpl. Jimmy Kinsey receives his backpack from Sgt. Klay South, founder of Veterans of Valor. Veterans of Valor visited Bethesda Naval Hospital and Walter Reed...

SACRAMENTO - As an international movie star and bodybuilding champion, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is clearly one of a kind. Yet throughout his tenure as governor his actions have seemed to channel past governors. In 2005, Schwarzenegger, with his unsuccessful push for partisan ballot measures, seemed to follow the aggressive, in-your-face approach of former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson. In 2006, Schwarzenegger's emphasis on rebuilding the state's schools, highways and levees recalled the huge building push in the 1960s of former Democratic Gov. Pat Brown. This year, Schwarzenegger has acted much like former Republican Gov. Earl Warren. Both men made a...

Gregory the Great, a Model for Civil and Religious Leaders by Pope Benedict XVI Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, 3 September, the Roman calendar commemorates St Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church (c. 540-604). His exceptional, I would say, almost unique figure is an example to hold up both to pastors of the Church and to public administrators: indeed, he was first Prefect and then Bishop of Rome. As an imperial official, he was so distinguished for his administrative talents and moral integrity that he served in the highest civil office, Praefectus Urbis, when he was only...

A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. "Your son is here," she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened. Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement. The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine...

‘Three Cups of Tea’ Author takes a stand in Pakistan, brings his story to Hood River Greg Mortenson poses in December with students from the Khanday School, in the Hushe Valley in remote northeastern Pakistan. The school is one of 55 that Mortenson and his nonprofit organization, the Central Asia Institute, have built in Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past decade. By JANET COOK News staff writer January 31, 2007 If you read one book this year, make it Greg Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea” (written with David Oliver Relin). If you go to one community event, see Greg Mortenson...

Disabled trumpeter, dad steal the show A member of the Louisville Cardinals marching band -- who is blind and in a wheelchair -- never fails to inspire when he takes the field with the help of his father. BY MICHELLE KAUFMAN The most inspirational team in the Orange Bowl this year, the one that best exemplifies courage and willpower, is not Louisville or Wake Forest. It is the team of Patrick Henry Hughes and his father, Patrick John Hughes, who will perform a feat more remarkable than anything displayed by the extraordinary athletes on the Dolphin Stadium field. Patrick Henry...

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. Psalm 127:1> At this time, when feelings run high, the world seems crazy, and anger seems to be the one thing the peoples of the world have in common, I invite you, my fellow FReepers, to join me in prayers and meditation for guidance, God's help and for our fellow man, for America, our troops,? and all our own needs. Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! That calls me from a world...

The Old Testament, is the divinely inspired Word of God (II TIMOTHY 3:16), written down by sinful, falliable, men, (JAMES 3:2), and yet accurately transmitted through the generations (PSALMS 12:7), but is not pertinent to our time as we have a New Testament (MATTHEW 26:28, HEBREWS 9:15) which packs up all of the good things of the Old Testament (LUKE 10:27), along with a new commandment to love one another as Jesus loved his disciples (JOHN 13:34), and thus we should only focus on the teachings of Jesus Christ, not on Moses, or David, our focus is Jesus Christ and...

AUBURN -- The man behind the wheel of the speeding vehicle thrashed in the throes of a grand mal seizure, but it seemed that only Jill Crowell recognized that fact. Early-morning traffic rolled en masse in both directions along the four lanes of Center Street as drivers scurried to their jobs, but the 2000 Chevrolet Blazer never slowed. Drivers pounded horns and wrestled with their steering wheels as the runaway vehicle tore into the roadway from a McDonald's parking lot. Crowell, one car back from the scene, heard the horns and saw the brake lights. But what she saw inside...

One often overlooked benefit of Independence Day is the symbol for what it represents for you personally. You are probably aware it represents freedom from tyranny, fear and the right to pursue your heart's desire. Yet, I mention this because many people think of the 4th of July as just a day off work - a day to watch fireworks and eat backyard grilled hotdogs. Sure, that stuff is fun. But let us not forget the real meaning of the holiday. We do not want to miss the important meaning like children who see Christmas as being just about opening...

As students and teachers lined a hallway at Hoquiam High School, sophomore Cori Rees stood up from his wheelchair Monday and took slow, deliberate steps on a journey that started months ago when he told a teacher he wanted to walk. Clapping to the pace of his steps and being careful not to crowd too close, they willed him along. With that encouragement and the strength he’s gained over months of training, Rees accomplished his goal of walking the length of the hall. Now he wants to keep going. He sees himself walking across the stage at graduation in two...

With songs like “When I Get Where I’m Going,” “Believe” and “Who You’d Be Today,” today’s country charts are filled with songs of faith and spirituality. Respected country music journalist Alanna Nash reports on this growing trend, where an historic number of songs about faith, healing and religion are scaling the charts. The success of Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” which held the No. 1 spot for six weeks, proves that listeners are hungry for spiritually-themed songs. “Many fans tell me that ‘Jesus, Take the Wheel’ really means something to them,” says Carrie. “Once a couple of singers do...

Coach Shula and Team, I wanted to take a few minutes to write ya’ll and congratulate you on how the season is going. I have tried to follow you as closely as possible, and have not been able to watch a game yet but have kept up through newspaper articles and the programs the athletic department has been gracious enough to send me. I did however get an email of Prothro’s catch, amazing. I wanted to take a few minutes of your time to write you and let yourself and the team know how much College Football really means to...

The willingness of people to help others who are suddenly overwhelmed by a great emergency or disaster is one of the more pleasing characteristics of human beings. The most amazing instance of this which 1 can remember occurred right after the great earthquake of April 18, 1906, and the terrible fire in San Francisco that followed. The story I tell here is something I witnessed myself, and I have never come across anything other than the merest generalities about it in books or magazine articles I have read about that holocaust—although the newspapers no doubt reported details of it at...

And yet inspiration is a word no one is shy of using now, even though they are not that keen to explain how it might work. It is the kind of magic that people like to believe in, perhaps especially now, in a culture where money can buy virtually everything else of value, and science and technology can create or invent the things we most need. Inspiration, in other words, is a kind of God-term; it refers to something we think of as essential but that we can't, or may not want to, understand. As Eliot suggests, it is like...

The Bill they can't stomachVoting Clinton's boyhood home a historic site too much for these 12 angry lawmakers By William Neikirk Tribune senior correspondent Published March 11, 2006 WASHINGTON -- Congress usually approves designation of a former president's boyhood home as a national historic site without much controversy. But this is Bill Clinton. The former president still raises the hackles of some Republicans and could be the first first man if his wife, Hillary, should be elected president. A dozen Republican House lawmakers voted against a bill this week to name the former president's birthplace a national historic site and...

Hoop Hero 2/23/2006 6:00 PM (Dave Yates, WROC-TV) Last night, we showed the amazing video of an autistic kid who did the unthinkable at a recent Greece Athena basketball game. He scored 20 points in the last four minutes. Dave Yates sat down with this young star about what seems like a fairy tale dream. It really doesn't get much better than this, a true example of how sports can create a positive experience. It was the type of story a Hollywood studio would dream up. The team manager comes off the bench and scores in his final home game....

It's that time again! HERMAN CAIN LIVE on WGKA. Just click "Listen Live" in the upper left corner at the WGKA link. Herman Cain is a BREATH OF FRESH AIR! Herman is LIVE on WGKA every Saturday from 3-6 pm (eastern time). You can call in to chat with Herman: Atlanta Area: (404) 231-1190 Toll-Free: (888) 920-2665 or email him at: radio@hermancain.com

It's that time again! HERMAN CAIN LIVE on WGKA. Just click "Listen Live" in the upper left corner at the WGKA link. Herman Cain is a BREATH OF FRESH AIR! Be sure to read his latest article, Freedom is Born when you get a chance. Herman is LIVE on WGKA every Saturday from 3-6 pm (eastern time). THIS week, Christmas Eve Day, he promises to SING for us! LOL! You can call in to chat with Herman: Atlanta Area: (404) 231-1190 Toll-Free: (888) 920-2665 or email him at: radio@hermancain.com

Well-wishers Jessica Windnagle, 14, left, and her mother, Jackie, second from left, greet pizza deliveryman Donald Lockwood and his girlfriend, Lindsey Carter, at Lockwood's benefit party in Casa di Pizza on Monday evening.Waking up in the intensivecare unit, Donald Lockwood's first thoughts after being nearly beaten to death while delivering a pizza were about his children. "What am I going to do for my kids for Christmas?" he remembered thinking. Monday night, his worries were quelled - and then some. Hundreds of people gathered at Casa di Pizza on Elmwood Avenue, one of the two pizzerias where Lockwood worked, to...

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Distressed by thoughts of war, terrorism and natural disasters? Maybe an uplifting movie will take the edge off. For its ninth annual celebration of cinema, the American Film Institute aims to uncover the "most inspirational films of the century." "When times are darkest, during war and depression, movies ... provide a remarkable way for us to find ourselves again," said Jean Picker Firstenberg, AFI's director and chief executive. "We need to feel good again, and that's how these movies make us feel."

Paris may have missed out on the Olympics, but the City of Love was last night preparing to celebrate a pair of monumental sporting occurrences in the form of Lance Armstrong's seventh Tour de France victory and the end of the Texan's glorious career. As predicted, Armstrong yesterday won the Tour's final time trial for the sixth time in seven years and in doing so ensured that he would not become the first rider since Greg Lemond in 1990 to win the Tour without bagging a single stage win. On a tricky, 55.5km circuit around St-Etienne, Armstrong prevailed by 23...

David Aikman's recent book, A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush, highlights the pivotal role religious faith plays in George W. Bush's life and presidency. The book chronicles Bush's slow ascendancy to his faith, taking note of the key people and seminal events that helped shape his Christian worldview. Aikman, a former senior correspondent for Time magazine, is an open Christian who is sympathetic to Bush's core religious principles. Aikman's work is the second one that touches on Bush's faith. Stephen Mansfield wrote the first, The Faith of George W. Bush, which was released last year,...

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first...

Hate to label it "vanity" because it appears anything but. http://www.jeffiscool.com/films12/TeamHoyt.wmv I wanted to share this with FReepers. I figure that if you don't cry from it's inspiration it's because you've seen the video before. The film is of Lt Col (Ret) Dick Hoyt, Air National Guard and his son, Rick.

"From Sea to Shining Sea" - A creative offering (ecard) we might want to send to all patriots, and especially those serving in the military. Let Freedom Ring! From Sea to Shining Sea

Peter: From Fisherman to Faithful Fisher of MenBy Jerold Aust What can we learn from this man who almost walked on water? he night sky grew dark and frightening as the boisterous winds whipped up the waves that pounded mercilessly against Peter’s fishing boat. The men in the boat, all disciples of Jesus Christ, rowed frantically against the ferocious winds, making little headway. In spite of the dangerous circumstances, they clung to the hope they would make it to shore and safety.The people who lived around or made their living from the Sea of Galilee knew the capriciousness of this...

Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks and nowhere is the gratitude individual Americans owe America better articulated than in "Can America Survive?" the new book from Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth. The primary author is Stein, perhaps most famous for "Bueller … Bueller … Bueller," although his other accomplishments include White House speechwriter, columnist, law school professor and others too numerous to name. No stranger to the policy wars, Stein understands the need to debate issues like welfare reform, the budget deficit and affirmative action. But the primary focus of the book is the very salient point that Americans...

I don't know how many of you have seen THIS video, but it is a MUST see!It is inspirational, and needs to be seen by every American before the November election.Those of you who have ping lists need to ping them to this link, and everyone who has an e-mail list needs to pass it along.It's done by a young man from the University of Delaware named Chris Byrne, and it is beyond excellent......it is inspired.I believe the RNC should be told about this, and it should be used as a campaign ad. In these days of hostility and hatred...

EVERETT — If the Boy Scouts gave out merit badges for perseverance, Sam Roe would have one more for his collection. As it stands, the newly minted Eagle Scout has 31, more than enough to earn Scouting's highest honor. But the badge-covered sash the 15-year-old wore yesterday during his Eagle Scout ceremony aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln told only part of the story. A very small part. Under Boy Scout rules, Roe, who was born with cerebral palsy, could have had special accommodations made for his physical disabilities while he fulfilled the requirements for Eagle Scout. But Roe, who wears...

Somewhere amidst the media's ecstasy over the release of former President Clinton's new book and the incessant coverage devoted to the ranting of a certain rotund independent film maker has fallen the story of a landmark aviation event...the first manned voyage into space funded by the private sector. At around a quarter till eight yesterday morning a rocket plane piloted by Michael Melvill detached from a parent aircraft 46,000 feet over the western United States and ignited its motor. SpaceShipOne, as the test space place is called, shot upward to an altitude of just over 62 miles before starting its...

"Where are they going without ever knowing the way?" Asked the band Fastball in their hit "The Way." The same question could have been asked of the U.S. manned space program for the last several decades. Where it manifestly was not headed was to the stars -- or anywhere out of low earth orbit for that matter. As President Bush pointed out in his January speech at NASA Headquarters, "In the past 30 years, no human being has… ventured farther upward into space than 386 miles." In that speech, he laid out a stunning new vision for space exploration, which...

On November 3, 1980, a double-rainbow crested over Main Street in Tampico, Illinois, where Ronald Reagan was born. The next day, Reagan was elected to become our fortieth president. "When we saw the double rainbows, we knew he had it won," explains Amy McElhiney, who, with her husband Lloyd, manages the Reagan Birthplace Museum. Peering into the tiny Tampico apartment where Reagan entered this life, it is hard to imagine more commonplace beginnings. As we now contemplate his exit from this life, it is hard to find a man who has left a more important legacy. As Reagan entered the...

The Importance of a God Given Vision "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts" (Isaiah 6:1,5). I'm not so sure that it would be a settling experience to have a vision of God. The scripture records a variety of divine...

LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2004—Jody Eldred Productions today announced it has just completed filming and is in the final stages of production on an inspirational documentary called, “Changed Lives: Miracles of The Passion,” which will air nationwide Easter weekend. With rave reviews from Diane Sawyer on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country,” this one-hour T.V. special was shot in High Definition and documents the true stories of people whose lives have been forever changed by Mel Gibson’s incredible motion picture “The Passion of The Christ.” “I knew instantly that people’s lives were going to be...

Well, I must confess that I'm not American (not yet anyway) but Dutch. But for all my life I loved the USA. It started when I was a small boy of about 9 years or so. I had a great interest in history, especially the American Civil War between the Yankees and Confederets. Since then I started to feel that the USA was a special country. When I finished school and went for high school, my mother asked me what kind of present I wanted. I told her that I wanted two Old Glories! She got them for me and...

It's hard to know which is bigger these days, NASA's problems or its plans. It has been a year since the space shuttle Columbia broke up in the atmosphere over Texas, and today, more than ever, the U.S. space agency faces an uncertain future. Will it soar to reach exciting new goals of manned journeys to the moon and to Mars? Or will it sink under the weight of unsafe vehicles, unrealistic expectations and lack of money? The shuttle fleet is 40 percent destroyed -- two of five vehicles have been lost -- and 14 shuttle astronauts have died. The...

Who can forget what Armstrong said as he stepped off a ladder attached to his spacecraft? "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." In his book, "Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age," Greg Klerkx claims that the agency has tied itself to big aerospace contractors and abandoned a public that once was enthralled by astronauts. Klerkx called from London yesterday to explain that as thrilled as he was by Spirit's landing, it would have been far more exciting if people had been sent to Mars. "For me,...

Some Things Are Better Than Money' An unexpected turn of events can sometimes teach us a valuable lesson. by Rex Sexton "Sixty-two and a half, who'll give sixty-three? Will ya say sixty-three? SOLD for sixty-two and a half!" blared the words of the auctioneer over the loudspeaker. Bridgette turned around against the wall of old worn boards and buried her face in her hands. I tried to put my arm on my daughter's shoulder to console her. When she looked up, I could see tears streaming down her cheeks from her big brown eyes."I only got barely a hundred dollars...