Do you remember where you were when the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion occurred. I was leaving my dorm room walking to a chemistry lab at Texas A&M. As I walked by the TV room I saw the first replay of the explosion, before they actually knew what happened.
Someone just published a previously unseen home video of the explosion on YouTube.
On a chilly January morning 24 years ago, Corydon optometrist Jack Moss raised his new video camera to the sky over central Florida and captured one of the darkest moments in American space exploration the explosion of the shuttle Challenger.
In the videotape, a stream of white smoke behind the climbing shuttle shoots into view but Moss, his wife and a neighbor noticed immediately that More..something was amiss when the channel separated into two streams.
Thats trouble of some kind, Moss can be heard saying. That didnt look right.
Moments later, someone is heard telling Moss that the Challenger had blown up.
He has preached the gospel to more than 200 million people in 185 lands and, at 91, still maintains that his one purpose in life is "to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ."
Billy Graham, whose crusade in Los Angeles in 1949 vaulted him into the public square, is far and away the top living preacher that has most influenced Protestant pastors, according to a recent survey by LifeWay Research.
In telephone interviews conducted in November 2009, Protestant pastors were asked to "name the top three living Christian preachers that most influence you." Twenty-one percent of pastors surveyed said Graham – that’s nearly three times the number who named Charles R. Swindoll, prominent pastor, author and host of the radio Bible-teaching ministry Insight for Living.
The millions of Americans who have donated money to the earthquake relief efforts underway in Haiti will be able to claim an itemized tax deduction on their 2009 tax returns, when a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate becomes law.
H.R. 4462 gives taxpayers the option of claiming charitable contributions for relief in Haiti on either their 2009 or 2010 tax returns, so long as the contribution is made before March 1, 2010. In addition, the bill allows taxpayers to use a telephone bill as proof of donations made via a text message.
In the PR announcement, they also warn of scams. As you might expect, there are many that are trying to take advantage of such a tragic situation.
Do you remember where you were when the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion occurred. I was leaving my dorm room walking to a chemistry lab at Texas A&M. As I walked by the TV room I saw the first replay of the explosion, before they actually knew what happened.
