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Save Money On Mission Trips

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Steve Simms

Churches and individuals: You can save money on mission projects! If you can’t afford to spend $2,000 or $3,000 to go overseas for a short-term mission project, no problem. Mission projects are needed right here in our USA urban areas. Just go … Continue reading →

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Words From Ignatius Sancho, An African

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Steve Simms

I found a book recently entitled: Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. Sancho was born about 1729 to captives on a ship carrying kidnapped Africans to the Americas. His father killed himself rather than be a slave. When … Continue reading →

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Going Dutch? The Dutch Decide Decadence Is Damaging

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Steve Simms

The Dutch have discovered that decadence is damaging. An article in The Tennessean (Nashville’s newspaper) called Dutch Rethink Anything-Goes Attitude reports: ”the country that has been the world’s most socially liberal is rethinking its anything-goes policies.” The article states that cities … Continue reading →

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Some Americans Suffered An Atrosity

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Steve Simms

I once stood in a small cemetery where a little known group of American hostages are buried. There are no tombstones, only a flat rock placed on each grave—no names to identify these Americans who suffered tremendous indignities and deprivations as … Continue reading →

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America’s Big War Wasn’t “Civil”

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Steve Simms

America had a big war–brother against brother. It was started 150 years ago. They called it “civil,” but it was not. Hundreds of thousands of Americans were slaughtered by battle and disease. The physical devastation was tremendous–billions of dollars spent … Continue reading →

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Tennessee’s Abolitionist Newspaper — The Emancipator

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Steve Simms

Here’s a little known fact of American history and black history. In the early 1800s there was an abolitionist movement in East Tennessee. Elihu Embree even started an anti-slavery newspaper, The Emancipator, around 1820. Because of stiff opposition the movement … Continue reading →

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When Freedom Broke Out — My 7th Greatest American

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Steve Simms

(Read about all of my Top Ten Greatest Americans by clicking here.) Robert Carter III of Virginia was one of the richest men in Revolutionary America. (He would have ranked near the top of the Forbes 400 List if they … Continue reading →

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