Daily Got a Minute Message with John Ed
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Busy Hands
If you are over 102 years of age, this message will not affect you. If you are under it, listen carefully. George Strausman is a Long Island native who wanted to continue an active life in retirement. He turned to pottery, after he gave up tenn...
Bug Tussle
Sometimes people become so fascinated by the name of a town that they steal the road signs bearing that name. This has happened in the tiny Texas town of Bug Tussle. Bug is not a very big town-a population of just 15. Because tourists like that...
The Value of Creativity
Creativity is a great asset in life. It also will help you in your business. Andrew Hiers is a car salesman in Cocoa, Florida. To advertise cars he wants to sell, he uses his skill as a classically trained opera singer. He makes a video of hims...
Dealing with Stress
How do you deal with your frustrations and stress? There have been several clubs pop up recently across the United States that are called scream clubs. It started in Chicago by a couple of folks who discovered that screaming outdoors helped the...
God's Endorsement
One of the best ways to market an item is to have the President of the United States use it. I remember President Obama bringing back to the White House one day hamburgers from a certain chain, gave it to the staff people, and all of a sudden t...
From Here to There
Things are being created to get people from one place to another more quickly. We recently witnessed the fastest form of travel with Artemis 2 carrying some astronauts places that nobody else had ever been. There is some footage that has come t...
Share the Good News
Where have you been lately? A young 19-year-old boy, Arjun Malavlya, wants to set the Guiness World Record to be the youngest person to visit every nation. He has already visited 118 different countries, beginning in South Korea. He has two yea...
Reaching Goals
Shay Taylor-Allen was a janitor at the Yale New Haven Hospital where she was born. She finished high school and had no desire to go to college. So, she started working as a janitor at Yale New Haven Hospital. Through her work there, she started...
Reputation
In a French mayoral election recently, the two candidates have the interesting names of Hitler and Zielinski. I couldn’t pronounce their first names. They had a bitter battle in campaigning. They said the biggest thing to overcome was the fact ...
Community
More of us ought to be more conscious of people who make life better for us and thank them for it in some way. In Richardson, Texas at the Moss Haven Elementary School, a crossing guard, Trecia Crawford, was honored by a group of dads whose kid...
A Little Is a Lot
Kayla Kleine and her husband live in Vancouver, British Columbia. They have a little 6-pound Pomeranian, Scout. A big bear entered their home and walked into the kitchen. He started eating out of the little puppy’s bowl when that tiny fluff bal...
Memorial Day
Albert Einstein once said, “The world is too dangerous to live in, not because of the people who do evil but because of the people who sit and let it happen.” Years ago, Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is...
Who Do You Listen To?
Just after the resurrection of Jesus and the early church was forming, Peter and John were arrested for speaking out for Jesus. They came before the Council Chamber and the Council commanded them never again to speak or teach in the name of Jes...
Don't Quit
Years ago, many roads in the south were dirt roads and became muddy and a big mess during rainy weather. One day a young boy was traveling down such a road with his father. They came up on a neatly dressed man whose car was stuck in...
Be A Leader
The whole world was shocked a few years ago when we watched Notre Dame De Paris engulfed in flames. A huge cloud of smoke covered Paris. People looked on in anguish and dismay. It wasn’t known if any of the valuable relics fro...
God-Honoring Talents
We all have talents – we need to use them in a productive way that honors God and helps others. Bill Waldschnidt loved working on classic cars. Today he’s working on another means of transportation. He is a retired Minnesota e...
Helpful Joking
Sometimes a joke is really appropriate and sometimes people don’t get the joke. A Texas police officer had encountered a couple of men who were being questioned as suspects in an illegal operation. In order to sort of lighten the mood for their...
Think Before You Act
Think before you do something foolish. That would have been good advice for Nathan Remington of Yorkshire, England to have followed recently. He is a truck driver and really wanted to have some gummy candies. He lost all sense of discipline and...
Only Jesus
There is a new business in Japan. Funeral homes and spas have started a trend—coffin lying. You can rent the inside of a coffin and meditate about death. The cost is $13 and you can use an open or closed casket. Some of the people offering coff...
Invest Wisely
God gives us financial resources and expects us to be good stewards of them. In 45 states last year, Americans spent over $100 billion on lotteries. Combining all of those would make U.S. lotteries the country’s ninth most profitable company. T...
Boldness
As the early church started to grow, Luke records in Acts 4 how all of the leaders began to unite against Jesus and his servants Paul and John and the other disciples. He lists that Herod, Pontius Pilot, the Governor, the Gentiles, and the peop...
Attitude of Gratitude
Every day we can complain about a lot of things, or we can be grateful that we are alive, that God has given us another day to live, that we have food to eat, and that we have a purpose for the day. A 10-week experiment was conducted at t...
Word Choices
Jesus never minced words. He called it like it really is. What He says is not to make you feel better, but to offer you a good choice for your values in life.