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WELCOME TO THE SHOW!
Yesterday afternoon after the show, I saw a guy with a sign that said, “WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY?” which freaked me out because I was on my way to the Motor Vehicle Agency. --Arj Barker
BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY
To me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. -- Philippians 1:21
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. — 1 Corinthians 1:18
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. — Philippians 4:4-5
HEARTLIGHT DAILY VERSE, PRAYER & THOUGHT
(From VerseOfTheDay.com)
Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. — Colossians 4:5-6
Thought: Jesus warned about our giving account for every idle word (Matthew 12:36-37). Paul takes it a step further and emphasizes how important this is with those who don't know Christ. We want to seize every opportunity when around those who are not Christians and show kindness, care, and control in the way we use our speech. Someone's eternal destiny may be resting on our conversations with them.
Prayer: Holy and Righteous God, I know you hate it when your people wound and drive unbelievers away. Please help me display a winsome attitude with all people, but especially those who do not yet know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
The Thoughts and Prayers for Today's Verse are written by Phil Ware.
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“BIRTHDAY VERSE” OF THE DAY
The chapter and verse corresponds to the month and the day!
2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV = So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
TODAY IS MONDAY – APRIL 18, 2016
(NOTE: Some holidays may be duplicated due to various calendars reporting conflicting dates)
WEIRD, WACKY, STRANGE, ZANY, ODD, BIZARRE, QUIRKY, UNUSUAL HOLIDAYS!
THERE ARE ONLY 250 SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS.
Today is INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL LIBRARIANS DAY. ***MARLAR: That’s sweet – a whole day dedicated to librarians with special needs; like those who never could learn the Dewey Decimal System.
This is NATIONAL BUILDINGS SAFETY WEEK. ***MARLAR: It's just my opinion, but don't you think that the safety of buildings should be a priority more often than just one week per year? How about a National Buildings Safety All Of The Time celebration?
Today is PET OWNERS INDEPENDENCE DAY, a day for pet owners to sleep all day and let the pets do the work. ***MARLAR: Oh, if it were only that simple! I’d LOVE to get our cat, Patches, to clean the bathroom – but she even freaks out just watching us take a shower. “Hey, how can you just stand there and let the water pour all over you?!?! Are you CRAZY?!?! Do you have any idea how long it’s going to take to lick yourselves dry now?!?!”
Today is NATIONAL ANIMAL CRACKERS DAY. ***MARLAR: And if you think you’re animals are going to do the work for you today, well then you’re a little crackers as well.
TODAY IS ALSO. . .
Adult Autism Day
Boston Marathon
National Columnists’ Day
National Golf Day
National Lineman Appreciation Day
National Stress Awareness Day
Pet Owners Independence Day
World Amateur Radio Day
COMING UP NEXT
TUESDAY, APRIL 19
Bicycle Day
Education and Sharing Day
John Parker Day
National Garlic Day
National Hanging Out Day
Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day
National Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20
Chinese Language Day
International Cli-Fi Day
National Cheddar Fries Day
National Pot Smokers Day
THURSDAY, APRIL 21
Bulldogs are Beautiful Day
High Five Day
National Ask An Atheist Day
National D.A.R.E. Day
Kindergarten Day
National Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day
National Surprise Drug Test Day (***How can it be a surprise if we know today is National Surprise Drug Test Day?)
Queen’s Birthday
FRIDAY, APRIL 22
Chemists Celebrate The Earth Day
Earth Day
Girl Scout Leaders Day
Global Selfie Earth Day (NASA)
“In God We Trust” Day
Mother Earth Day
National Jelly Bean Day
Passover
Satchmo Days (22-24)
SATURDAY, APRIL 23
English Language Day
Impossible Astronaut Day
National Dance Day
National Lost Dog Awareness Day
Movie Theater Day
Talk Like Shakespeare Day
World Book & Copyright Day
World Book Night
SUNDAY, APRIL 24
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
National Pet Parents’ Day
Pinhole Photography Day
Mother, Father Deaf Day
New Kids On The Block Day
World Meningitis Day
MONDAY, APRIL 25
DNA Day
Eeyore’s Birthday
Hairstylists Appreciation Day
Hug a Plumber Day (Plumbers Day)
International Marconi Day
License Plates Day
National Mani-Pedi Day
Malaria Awareness Day
Parental Alienation Day
Red Hat Society Day
Save the Frogs Day
Sense of Smell Day
Spring Astronomy Day
World Day for Animals in Laboratories
World Penguin Day
ON THIS DAY
1775: Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn American colonists the British were coming.
1877: Charles Cros wrote a paper that described the process of recording and reproducing sound. In France, Mr. Cros is still recognized as the inventor of the phonograph. In the U.S., Thomas Edison gets the credit.
1923: Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, New York. It was baseball’s first three-tiered stadium. The Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
1924: Simon & Schuster published the first Crossword Puzzle Book.
1936: Gene Autry, the Singing Cowboy, recorded "Back in the Saddle Again."
1945: St. Louis Brown outfielder Pete Gray went one for four in his first major league game. Pete had only one arm.
1966: Bill Russell was named player-coach of the Boston Celtics, the first African-American coach in the NBA.
1979: 18-year-old Andreas Mihavecz was discovered near death in a government holding cell in Hochst, Austria. A passenger in an auto accident, he apparently was forgotten and given neither food nor water for 18 days. He survived.
1981: Tom Seaver of the Cincinnati Reds struck out Cardinal Keith Hernandez to became only the fifth pitcher in major league history to earn 3,000 career strikeouts. But the Cardinals won the game, 10-4.
1990: A jury awarded a St. Louis woman $27,500 in damages from a man who bit her in a bar. The woman testified that the bite caused such "searing and throbbing pain," she could not sit down for three days. ***MARLAR: Oh, so that’s where he bit her.
1991: Charlie Kovacs of Seymour, Victoria, Australia, set the world camper speed record by towing his Roadster camper at a speed of 126.76 miles an hour. ***MARLAR: But his kids still kept yelling, "Are we there yet!"
1999: Wayne Gretzky played his last National Hockey League game as his New York Rangers lost to Pittsburgh 2-1 in overtime at Madison Square Garden.
2001: A San Francisco man was arrested for a string of bank robberies after he dropped a receipt with his name on it at one bank and left his resume at another. Police said the 37-year-old bandit was intoxicated during the robberies.
2002: Actor Robert Blake was arrested in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Blake, who played Little Beaver as a child in 20 movies and later was TV's "Baretta," was acquitted of murder but found liable in a civil case.
2003: Scott Peterson was arrested in San Diego in the death of his wife, Laci, who was eight months pregnant when she vanished on Christmas Eve.
TODAY IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY
1161: Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies. He repeatedly quarreled with his superiors about church appointments and other political questions, but he the influential French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux supported him. Theobald helped strengthen the English church and build the career of Thomas Becket, whom he recommended as chancellor to England's newly crowned King Henry.
1587: English Protestant historian John Foxe, author of Actes and Monuments of Matters Happenning to the Church (the shorter version is now known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs), dies at age 71.
1870: Isabella Thoburn opens her school, one of the first for the women of India. Seven frightened girls are coaxed to attend.
1874: Having died nearly a year earlier (May 1, 1873) in what is now northern Zambia, missionary-explorer David Livingstone (whose remains had been brought, as his tombstone reads, "by faithful hands over land and sea") is interred in London's Westminster Abbey.
HOLLYWOOD, SPORTS AND CELEBRITY FIGURE BIRTHDAYS
o Actress (“Sabrina the Teenage Witch”) Melissa Joan Hart 40 (audio clip)
o TV host Conan O'Brien 53
o Actor (Will on “Will & Grace”) Eric McCormack, 53 (audio clip)
o Actress (Daphne Moon on “Frasier”) Jane Leeves, 55 (audio clip)
o actor (Rick Decker on “As the World Turns,” Jeff Colby on “Dynasty”) John James 60 (audio clip)
o actor (Less Than Perfect, “Heroes”) Eric Roberts, 60 (audio clip)
o Actor (Barry Dekumbis on “Ally McBeal,” Ira Buchman on “Mad About You”) John Pankow 62 (audio clip)
o actor (Ghostbusters, Honey I Shrunk the Kids) Rick Moranis, 62
o Actor (John Q, Riding In Cars With Boys, Any Given Sunday, The General’s Daughter, True Crime) James Woods, 69 -- John is said to be a very intelligent man. He scored a perfect 800 on his verbal SATs and a 779 on the math section.
o Actress (the original The Parent Trap, That Darn Cat) Hayley Mills, 70
o Actress (Della Street on “Perry Mason”) Barbara Hale, 95 (audio clip #1, audio clip #2)
BEE-BOP BIRTHDAYS
(Music Artist Birthdays From SongFacts.com)
1918 : Tony Mottola
1924 : Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
1935 : Paul Rothchild
1938 : Hal Galper
1939 : Glen Hardin (The Crickets)
1940 : Mike Vickers (Manfred Mann)
1946 : Lennie Baker (Sha Na Na)
1946 : Hayley Mills
1946 : Skip Spence (Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane)
1958 : Les Pattinson (Echo And The Bunnymen)
1966 : Ana Voog (The Blue Up)
1970 : Greg Eklund (Everclear)
SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE
Why do we call a worldly person "sophisticated?"
This is all about wise guys. It starts with the ancient Greek word sophos, which meant wise. But it's not a straight line from there to sophisticated. In the 4th century B. C., a school of philosophy that emphasized verbal cleverness and skillful arguing over deep, serious thought was called sophistry. (The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for smarty-pants... and the word "lawyer" came much later.) Medieval Latin continued this line of thought, applying the word "sophisticare" to mean adulterating something or watering it down. As the word morphed into sophisticated, a transformation of its meaning also occurred. By around 1700, sophisticated meant artificial (not far from adulterated), and unsophisticated came to mean pure and natural, the opposite of artificial. It was almost 1900 before sophisticated evolved yet again from the negative sense of artificial to the positive meaning of complex, knowledgeable, and worldly... much like yours truly. (Source: www.worldwidewords.com)
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NEWS KICKERS
(No news on the weekends.)
NEW NEWS KICKERS…
A woman was arrested at a Florida WalMart recently for driving around on a motorized cart while enjoying drinks and snacks she hadn’t yet paid for. *** How is this news? This happens at every Walmart at least twice a week.
Walter Cavanagh holds the record for the most credit cards — 1,497. His total line of credit is $1.7 million. Cavanagh says his credit card obsession started in the late 1960s when he made a “silly bet” with a friend: the guy who could collect the most credit cards by the end of the year would win dinner. *** All those credit cards, and the other guy has to buy dinner… what a cheapskate.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has signed a bill that allows some members of churches to provide armed security for their congregations, after undergoing firearms training. The bill, dubbed The Church Protection Act, specifies that those designated can carry guns into church buildings. It also allows people to carry concealed weapons without a permit. Representative Andy Gipson of Braxton says the law gives small congregations an option to defend themselves against attack. ***And incorporating Jesus’ teachings of “turn the other cheek”, this requires you to get shot on both sides of the face.
An apparent attempt by North Korea to fire a medium-range ballistic missile onFriday, failed. ***If they keep this up they’ll end up accidentally nuking themselves and we won’t have to worry about them anymore.
NEWS KICKER EVERGREENS…
It's no secret that millions of Americans are sleep-deprived, and being drowsy at the wheel is adding to the dangerous mix of cell phones and texting that drivers face each day. In a study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 41 percent of drivers admitted that at some point in their lives, they had nodded off at the wheel. Eleven percent said they'd fallen asleep within the past year, and some drivers confessed they had been asleep for more than a minute on a multilane road. After analyzing the data, researchers say accidents involving sleepy drivers are responsible for significantly more accidents than previously thought. ***MARLAR: It’s thought that one factor is many young drivers attend public schools and are so uneducated that they think cruise control is the same as autopilot.
A survey of America’s commuters reveals some interesting facts. Chief among them: many folks text and drive. ***MARLAR: At least, I think that's what the story said – it was hard to read it on my phone while driving in this morning.