“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them.” Mark 10:14 Sometimes people ask me “What is the cause of so much unhappiness and crime in our world?” I think it is simple. The Lord spoke those words in Mark 10 and it is evident that many parents have not taken responsibility to insure that their precious children have spiritual education. It begins in the family.
February 28, 2003
The guys were outside at the sale barn, sipping coffee in Styrofoam cups and waiting for someone to say something. Inside, the pitch of the auctioneer was heralding the glories of an old spavined milk cow, and fevered cattlemen were waving cards with numbers on them.
It was quieter outside.
Finally, it was Herb who spoke. “You guys ever burn the toast and then scrape it?”
Toast, huh? Why not?
“Used to do that a lot before the toasters got modern on us,” said Doc. “Hardly ever burn any more.”
It is good to plan, but if we don’t work the plan there is no success. “Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty!” Proverbs 14:23 Living Bible
Lamar Community College’s Wellness Center was packed with area students and their projects for the annual Southeast Colorado Science Fair in February. The science fair featured 123 projects from the elementary through high school levels and included students from Alta Vista, Campo, Cheyenne Wells, Eads, Holly, Lamar, Springfield, Walsh, and Wiley.
Colorado’s risk-limiting audit pioneered a critical process to show the security of elections. The Colorado Secretary of State's office documented the monumental effort by state and county election officials last fall when it completed the nation's first "risk-limiting audit" to ensure that the counties' ballot tabulation systems accurately counted the votes cast by Colorado's electors.
Babies start learning from the moment they are born and some of the things they learn in the first months of their lives lay foundations for their learning of specific skills and concepts that will be directly taught to them years later.
Sometimes a whole crate of birthday candles might not be enough.
Americans are living longer than ever, with the average life expectancy now rising to about 79 years. Some have referred to this trend as the “longevity revolution,” but it’s also creating a revolution in the way people think about retirement.
“What worked for retirees a generation ago isn’t going to work today,” says Jack Teboda, president of Teboda & Associates, a financial services firm.
