by Average Joe | Feb 5, 2022 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Featured, Peace Secrets
Five-Letter Words There is an old story about a Cherokee warrior teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed,...
by Average Joe | Jan 23, 2022 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers
Keep Going, 153, 154, 155 Have you ever felt like you are going nowhere fast? Peddling 100 miles an hour but moving as far as a stationary bike moves or like a trolley car indoors locked in place with no tracks. Wouldn’t it be great if you could be so...
by Average Joe | Jan 15, 2022 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers
153 Faith Boosters I was teaching a class on the natural habits necessary for overcoming anxiety when one of the students came up at the break in class. Like this lesson, I would avoid the spiritual side of the topic for the first half and allow the students to...
by Average Joe | Jan 1, 2022 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Featured
’22 A Year to Shine In 2017, some people thought the savior of the world in office would make things better. 2021 has passed through our hands with a new regime where others thought now the latest mess would be fixed. Personally, I semi-retired in 2017 to...
by Average Joe | Dec 18, 2021 | Guestimonies
I Found Grandma in the Church Basement This Guestimony is brought to you by not just an acquaintance; John Hever was the best man in my wedding 35 years ago. We were roommates living what we saw as a radically crazy Christian life on both the campuses of Ohio State...
by Average Joe | Dec 12, 2021 | Family Matters, Work Stress
My first job with a paystub was working in the greasy kitchen of a KFC. Nothing can break you away quicker from the fast-food world than scorching your hands with spattering hot grease. Nothing could motivate you more to get an education and training so you never...
by Average Joe | Oct 14, 2021 | Family Matters, Peace Secrets
1977, the worst memory in my high school days was the disco era and mostly that horrible song that was constantly being played on the radio – Stayin’ Alive. Having two left feet and a fear of looking like a fool I both feared and loathed dancing, and...
by Average Joe | Sep 21, 2021 | Family Matters, Featured, Work Stress
Lucky or a Miracle?Two weeks ago, on Labor Day; I knocked off four non-bucket-list items, an ambulance ride, a life-flight ride, surgery, and a brain MRI. Not exactly, the type of fun events one puts on their wish list. Only an hour or so after the trauma, I awoke...
by Average Joe | Jan 1, 2021 | Family Matters, Work Stress
Beware of a Hardened Heart2020 will go down in history as a year of chaos, disorder, and disappointment. Covid-19, elections, sports seasons a strew, some businesses shut down some not, money dwindling, national debt skyrockets, political unrest, worry about...
by Average Joe | Oct 27, 2020 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Financial Security
22,273 is a seemingly random number mentioned exactly once in the Bible. It is in the least-read book of the Bible titled, ho-hum – Numbers. But man, when we look at all the ties that this number represents in both the old and new testament, you will be...
by Average Joe | Jul 4, 2020 | Guestimonies, Peace Secrets, Work Stress
Famed musician Dion DiMucci from the vintage rock and roll era carries both burdens and rewards in his storied career. Some today seek to erase history, not understanding the value of wisdom gained thru both tragedies and triumphs. Individual experiences either...
by Average Joe | Apr 19, 2020 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Family Matters
Did you HEAR the meaning of Covid-19? COVID-19 is an acronym. In its full form, COVID-19 stands for CO ronaVI rus Disease of 2019. The coronavirus disease of 2019 was given the abbreviated name of COVID-19 by The World Health Organization (WHO) in a Press Release on...
by Average Joe | Apr 1, 2020 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Peace Secrets
Worrying makes you wary. Meaning, the more you worry, the warier you become – of everything. For the sufferers of anxiety, fear, and the darkest worry – panic attacks, there is nothing more difficult to overcome. We live in a world where people and the...
by Average Joe | Mar 24, 2020 | Family Matters, Peace Secrets
How to Worship at Home Wow! A pandemic has reached our world, forcing nearly everyone to ‘work at home.’ While being cooped up is nothing new for this Average Joe, it still has stirred up the worry meter. I was a work-at-home employee for 20+...
by Average Joe | Jan 19, 2020 | Peace Secrets
Joe Burrow has obviously moved well past an Average Joe status. Everyone has jumped on the I-knew-Joe bandwagon, heck we were probably neighbors when he was 2 years old while often visiting our house in Hide-Away-Hills, Ohio which was not far from the Burrow family in...
by Average Joe | Apr 19, 2019 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers
Good Friday has always been the most confusing ‘holiday.’ While the stock market is closed and has been every year except for two years since 1889, the post office, banks, and in all but 11 states schools are open as usual. Easter is a holiday that is...
by Average Joe | Mar 1, 2019 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Financial Security
Why The S&P 500 Is ABOVE ALL MeasurementsAnd how it changes every thought, you have NOW.500 is a number ABOVE ALL measurements. If you can stand to read more than 500 characters in one sitting, I will show you from the beginning of mankind exactly how and why 500...
by Average Joe | Feb 23, 2019 | Family Matters, Work Stress
I normally do not write as a newspaper reporter, but when news of atrocity arises in my own backyard, it pierced the pen of this worrier turned warrior to change course one more time. The state of North Carolina has become The most Disenfranchised state in America. ...
by Average Joe | Feb 18, 2019 | Financial Security
Tax season is upon us, and for worriers, it is hard not to have anxiety in getting those tax forms and checks sent out to the tax collectors by April 15th. Not to brag, well forget that 20 hours later, to brag, I mailed all my forms and figures off to the Accountant...
by Average Joe | Feb 3, 2019 | Peace Secrets, Work Stress
Tickets to see a Super Bowl game average over $3500 per seat and can run as high as $25,000 for the best seats in the house. See article here. Just to watch a football game, in a seat and be part of the experience to be at the...
