This Week's Story https://thisweeksstory.com/rss2.php Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0000 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3729 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3729 Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0000 I knew I should wear green on St. Patrick's Day or I would get pinched. But, how come? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3726 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3726 Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000 Joash abandons God. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3722 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3722 Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:00:00 +0000 Joash is determined to repair the vandalized temple of God. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3720 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3720 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:00:00 +0000 Joash is rescued and receives education to become king. Will he serve or abuse his country? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3712 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3712 Sun, 09 Feb 2025 21:00:00 +0000 Jehoiada shocks Queen Athalizh with the coronation of Joash. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3704 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3704 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:00:00 +0000 Athaliah has a savage determination to become queen of Judah, regardless if tragedy destroys her family. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3702 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3702 Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:00:00 +0000 When Major André's boots were removed, a paper was found in his stocking. Then more papers were found. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3682 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3682 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:00:00 +0000 Benedict had an appalling and traitorous plan! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3679 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3679 Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:00:00 +0000 Finding spies for the Culper Spy Ring was a risky intelligence operation. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3671 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3671 Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:00:00 +0000 The Culper Spy Ring forfeited their true identities. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3668 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3668 Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Mary travels 93 miles to Bethlehem on a donkey with her husband Joseph. What extraordinary event in history occurs there and to her? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3666 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3666 Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Mary is visited by an angel with an unusual message! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3664 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3664 Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Benjamin Franklin's lifelong specialty was possibilities and solutions. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3661 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3661 Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Squanto's hard times help him on an unusual mission to the Pilgrims. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3653 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3653 Sun, 01 Dec 2024 21:00:00 +0000 The Pilgrims suffer! Some survive their first winter in the New World. They are surprised by Samoset's visit. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3650 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3650 Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Franklin gives himself and offers his fortune to help the 13 colonies receive fairness from Britain. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3634 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3634 Sun, 17 Nov 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Can the 13 Colonies work together as Benjamin Franklin helps them build a postal system? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3620 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3620 Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Retirement has exciting opportunities for Benjamin Franklin. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3599 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3599 Sun, 03 Nov 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Imagine being a skilled writer, publisher, printer, inventor, business entrepreneur, retiring at age 42 with enough money to pay your bills, AND THEN starting a "world" of experiments. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3596 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3596 Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Success: Ben Franklin defeats business competition, builds his newspaper audience, and develops Poor Richard's Almanac for an international audience. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3593 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3593 Sun, 20 Oct 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Ben becomes a printing entrepreneur, choses a wife, and brainstorms changes for Philadelphia. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3592 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3592 Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Ben Franklin was an unstoppable force from one job to the next, building new skills and stepping into opportunity! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3584 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3584 Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Wounded soldiers and victims in disaster meet The Angel of the Battlefield, Clara Barton! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3581 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3581 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Clara Barton, an extraordinary woman and founder of the Red Cross, confronts her shyness, depression, and poor health. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3575 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3575 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 20:00:00 +0000 31 men, only one woman, and a new baby map a route across the West! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3573 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3573 Sun, 08 Sep 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Fact and fiction swirl around Sacajawea, including surprises. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3570 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3570 Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Jesus demonstrates unique power with nature's forces and a man possessed with demons. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3568 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3568 Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Elizabeth Packard becomes a tenacious, effective crusader for women's legal rights and the mentally ill when their rights are often legally ignored. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3563 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3563 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Theophilus plots to place Elizabeth into another asylum.The Law of Coverture will not protect her. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3559 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3559 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Though trapped in an asylum, Elizabeth Packard helps patients and continues her search for freedom. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3555 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3555 Sun, 04 Aug 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Elizabeth Packard is moved into an asylum ward where harsh treatment often breaks patients' spirits. She is determined to survive and help patients. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3554 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3554 Sun, 28 Jul 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Elizabeth Packard discovers that she has been tricked by the director of Jacksonville Insane Asylum. She takes action! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3551 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3551 Sun, 21 Jul 2024 20:00:00 +0000 While Elizabeth Packard discovers abuse to patients, she shines God's hope to them, which puts her into jeopardy. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3549 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3549 Sun, 14 Jul 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Meet a pioneer circuit rider, Peter Cartwright. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3546 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3546 Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Tenacity drove Marine recruits and the signers of the Declaration of Independence. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3541 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3541 Sun, 30 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Only in America would "such people" mix and argue about the government they wanted. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3538 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3538 Sun, 23 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Could Elizabeth trust superintendent McFarland or was he deliberately crushing female independence? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3536 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3536 Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Elizabeth Packard is betrayed by her husband and the superintendent of the mental asylum. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3533 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3533 Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Elizabeth Packard is abandoned by her husband and declares "I have used my reason, not lost it!" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3527 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3527 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Elizabeth Packard is forced to spend her first night in Jacksonville Insane Asylum in 1860. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3519 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3519 Sun, 26 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Betrayal and trickery result in Elizabeth Packard's legal kidnapping to a mental asylum in 1860. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3518 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3518 Sun, 19 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Elizabeth Packard's husband committed his wife to an Illinois insane asylum for refusing to accept his viewpoints. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3515 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3515 Sun, 12 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000 I was amazed that Mom was so humble and strong that she apologized to me. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3503 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3503 Sun, 05 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Was Jesus going to stay in His tomb? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3499 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3499 Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:00:00 +0000 With new courage Joseph asks, "May I have the body of Jesus?" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3477 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3477 Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:00:00 +0000 A Roman centurion is shocked by what happens at the crucifixion of Jesus. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3476 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3476 Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Arrested, charged, tried, and sentenced! Unfair! Jesus is not guilty! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3473 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3473 Sun, 07 Apr 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Peter's swift defense is followed with cowardice. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3466 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3466 Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:00:00 +0000 "Am I a dangerous criminal? Is that why you brought weapons to help you take me?" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3465 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3465 Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:00:00 +0000 Jesus is deserted and betrayed. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3453 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3453 Sun, 17 Mar 2024 20:00:00 +0000 I knew I should wear green on St. Patrick's Day or I would get pinched. But, how come? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3448 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3448 Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:00:00 +0000 The first major battle of the Mexican-American War featured meritorious bravery and exceptional use of artillery. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3444 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3444 Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:00:00 +0000 How could victory be won at Palo Alto? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3441 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3441 Sun, 25 Feb 2024 21:00:00 +0000 1840's: Can Mexico and the U.S. settle their differences without war? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3432 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3432 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Tensions explode between Texans and the Mexican government, after Texas becomes part of the United States. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3430 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3430 Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:00:00 +0000 What should my rights as a United States citizen be? What are my God-given rights? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3422 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3422 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Americans receive a terrific opportunity to settle in Tejas. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3423 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3423 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Not only was Wilma Rudolph fast, she was beautiful and graceful with a hard-to-believe story. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3418 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3418 Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Polio is not going to determine what Wilma Rudolph can do! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3415 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3415 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Books have changed minds and nations. When people read Uncle Tom's Cabin by author Harriet Beecher Stowe,many felt the cruelty and injustice of owning human beings. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3409 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3409 Sun, 07 Jan 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Hannah's little boy, Samuel, hears God's voice. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3406 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3406 Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Can the king identify the true mother? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3404 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3404 Sun, 24 Dec 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Mary travels 93 miles to Bethlehem on a donkey with her husband Joseph. What extraordinary event in history occurs there and to her? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3402 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3402 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Mary is visited by an angel with an unusual message! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3400 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3400 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 21:00:00 +0000 John the Baptist draws crowds of people with a challenge to repent. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3395 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3395 Sun, 03 Dec 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Who was he - brave preacher, desert dweller, prophet, messenger, birth announced by angel Gabriel, forerunner of Jesus, beheaded! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3394 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3394 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 21:00:00 +0000 A teenager searching for his identity questions John the Baptist. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3390 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3390 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Squanto's hard times prepared him for an unusual mission to the pilgrim https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3387 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3387 Sun, 12 Nov 2023 21:00:00 +0000 The Pilgrims suffer! Some survive their first winter in the New World. They are surprised by Samoset's visit. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3385 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3385 Sun, 05 Nov 2023 21:00:00 +0000 When Major André's boots were removed, a paper was found in his stocking. Then more papers were found. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3381 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3381 Sun, 29 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Benedict had an appalling and traitorous plan! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3379 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3379 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Finding spies for the Culper Spy Ring was a risky intelligence operation. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3374 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3374 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000 The Culper Spy Ring forfeited their true identities. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3367 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3367 Sun, 08 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Locked doors swing open in Soviet Russia when Dwayne King and a team bring Bibles. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3365 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3365 Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Winters above the Arctic Circle confronted the King family. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3357 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3357 Sun, 24 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000 With stunning skill and judgment, Dwayne King serves as a missionary bush pilot and instructor in Alaska. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3346 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3346 Sun, 17 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Dwayne King's passions, skills, and energy are honed for service by the Master Craftsman. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3342 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3342 Sun, 10 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000 As Dwayne King grows he thrives on speed and fun, and then his life receives a new passion. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3330 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3330 Sun, 03 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Legendary pilot, Dwayne King, takes gospel to isolated people in Alaska and Siberia. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3327 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3327 Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Vision is more than eyesight! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3323 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3323 Sun, 20 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000 My parents' faith was not mine. I wanted to be me! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3321 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3321 Sun, 13 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000 He was a man on assignment in a land he loved. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3315 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3315 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Louie Zamperini is captured by enemy soldiers after 47 days lost in the Pacific Ocean. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3311 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3311 Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Louie Zamperini crashes into Pacific Ocean and struggles to survive shark attacks and starvation https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3309 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3309 Sun, 23 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Louie Zamperini was a track wonder-running at USC, NCAA, and 1936 Olympics in Berlin. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3307 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3307 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000 What may happen when foreigners change your home? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3302 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3302 Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Chief Fred Ewan has lived off the land; traveled on foot, snowshoes, and dogsled; and faced forces he could not stop. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3295 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3295 Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Stubby sometimes waited with a man until he could be rescued; sometimes he stayed with a man until he died. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3293 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3293 Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Stubby, a stray dog, is smuggled into France and serves as part of the U.S. Army's Yankee Division in World War I. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3288 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3288 Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Our dogs... Sparky, Scruffy, and Shadow! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3285 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3285 Sun, 11 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000 We are not worshipping this torn flag. It represents dreams and goals for life in our country. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3282 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3282 Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Tenacity drove Marine recruits and the signers of the Declaration of Independence. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3280 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3280 Sun, 28 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Only in America would "such people" mix and argue about the government they wanted. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3270 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3270 Sun, 21 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000 The American economy crashed and millions of Americans struggled to overcome the Great Depression. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3267 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3267 Sun, 14 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Papa's unique discipline built love and order into a family soon to face the Great Depression! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3264 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3264 Sun, 07 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Was Jesus going to stay in His tomb? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3261 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3261 Sun, 30 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000 With new courage Joseph asks, "May I have the body of Jesus?" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3252 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3252 Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Trying to trap Jesus was no answer. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3250 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3250 Sun, 16 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000 A Roman centurion is shocked by what happens at the crucifixion of Jesus. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3249 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3249 Sun, 09 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Arrested, charged, tried, and sentenced! Unfair! Jesus is not guilty! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3227 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3227 Sun, 02 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000 Druid priests and chieftains resist Patrick, but he keeps talking about Jesus and the Bible to poor and rich, slave and free. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3215 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3215 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:00:00 +0000 St. Patrick is kicked to an auction block and sold in Ireland. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3206 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3206 Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:00:00 +0000 I knew I should wear green on St. Patrick's Day or I would get pinched. But, how come? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3203 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3203 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 20:00:00 +0000 President Lincoln was keenly aware that being U.S. President did not give him the right to force his ideas upon the nation without regard for the Constitution and the people's will. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3199 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3199 Sun, 05 Mar 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Lincoln had grit for the enormity of challenges he attacked: How important was it that the United States be one nation? What is the morality of slavery? How does slavery affect economy? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3195 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3195 Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:00:00 +0000 A sixteen year old girl glimpses the last days of President Lincoln's life. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3193 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3193 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Abraham Lincoln's beginnings did not predict his future! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3185 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3185 Sun, 12 Feb 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Brian Blair, Helen Keller, Linda Levac, Senator Max Cleland, President Franklin Roosevelt, you, and I need the hands of community! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3166 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3166 Sun, 05 Feb 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Brian Blair, born blind, experiences doing what he had thought was impossible for him to do. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3154 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3154 Sun, 29 Jan 2023 21:00:00 +0000 If I was born blind, would I be tangled in a foxhole mentality or could the foxhole be eclipsed? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3151 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3151 Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Great and small risks may trump safety in a foxhole. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3149 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3149 Sun, 15 Jan 2023 21:00:00 +0000 King Saul defies God and seeks answers from a medium. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3141 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3141 Sun, 08 Jan 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Davod flees from Saul to Philistia, land of enemies https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3138 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3138 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:00:00 +0000 Mary travels 93 miles to Bethlehem on a donkey with her husband Joseph. What extraordinary event in history occurs there and to her? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3136 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3136 Sun, 25 Dec 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Mary is visited by an angel with an unusual message! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3131 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3131 Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:00:00 +0000 A nine feet and nine inches tall soldier attempts to fight a teenager who is equipped with a slingshot and five stones. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3129 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3129 Sun, 11 Dec 2022 21:00:00 +0000 King Saul's camp is miraculously infiltrated and David becomes an immigrant. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3124 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3124 Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Saul stalks David, while David rejects revenge. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3109 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3109 Sun, 27 Nov 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Uncle Tom is stripped of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He lives in a book blockbuster. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3105 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3105 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 21:00:00 +0000 The worst rioting in U.S. history and the sacrifice of the 54th Regiment mark July 1863. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3101 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3101 Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:00:00 +0000 A clever confederate strategy confronts the union's 54th Regiment of black NCO's and white officers, but their charge continues. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3097 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3097 Sun, 06 Nov 2022 21:00:00 +0000 One thousand black soldiers in 54th regiment choose to fight, despite unfair pay, terrible weather, and lack of sleep and food. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3095 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3095 Sun, 30 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000 The superb performance and skills of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Military Regiment far exceeded profiling of black soldiers. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3093 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3093 Sun, 23 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000 Why would America, famous as the land of freedom, allow slavery? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3090 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3090 Sun, 16 Oct 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Jeremiah did not hide or run. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3087 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3087 Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Samson and Muhammad Ali discuss Samson's unique mission. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3084 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3084 Sun, 02 Oct 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Ali's wins his third world heavyweight championship boxing title, and courageously confronts Parkinson's Disease. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3082 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3082 Sun, 25 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Muhammad Ali and Samson, men of fame, riddle, and tragedy, meet! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3033 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3033 Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000 I was amazed that Mom was so humble and strong that she apologized to me. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3030 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3030 Sun, 11 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000 We are not worshipping this torn flag. It represents dreams and goals for life in our country. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3028 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3028 Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Tenacity drove Marine recruits and the signers of the Declaration of Independence. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3012 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3012 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Only in America would "such people" mix and argue about the government they wanted. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3011 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3011 Sun, 21 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Peter's swift defense is followed with cowardice. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3009 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3009 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000 "Am I a dangerous criminal? Is that why you brought weapons to help you take me?" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3007 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3007 Sun, 07 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Jesus is deserted and betrayed. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3001 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=3001 Sun, 31 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000 31 men, only one woman, and a new baby map a route across the West! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2998 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2998 Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Fact and fiction swirl around Sacajawea, including surprises. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2995 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2995 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000 There's no speed limit in American culture. We change fast, but the past is still here. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2990 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2990 Sun, 10 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Chief Fred Ewan has lived off the land; traveled on foot, snowshoes, and dogsled; and faced forces he could not stop. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2986 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2986 Sun, 03 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000 What may happen when foreigners change your home? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2976 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2976 Sun, 26 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Helen Keller is disabled, but not defeated. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2973 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2973 Sun, 19 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Queen Vashti refuses to be displayed by her drunken husband, King Xerxes. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2971 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2971 Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Meet a pioneer circuit rider, Peter Cartwright. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2967 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2967 Sun, 05 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Louie Zamperini is captured by enemy soldiers after 47 days lost in the Pacific Ocean. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2965 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2965 Sun, 29 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Louie Zamperini crashes into Pacific Ocean and struggles to survive shark attacks and starvation https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2960 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2960 Sun, 22 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Louie Zamperini was a track wonder-running at USC, NCAA, and 1936 Olympics in Berlin. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2958 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2958 Sun, 15 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Jairus pleads, "Jesus, heal my daughter. Don't let her die" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2955 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2955 Sun, 08 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Jesus, how many times should I forgive someone who keeps treating me unfairly? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2952 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2952 Sun, 01 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Trying to trap Jesus was no answer. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2940 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2940 Sun, 24 Apr 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Zelensky and Washington Share Gigantic Obstacles and Strengths https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2929 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2929 Sun, 17 Apr 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Neither President Zelensky or General Washington abandon their men. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2924 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2924 Sun, 10 Apr 2022 20:00:00 +0000 President Zelensky shares his personal past and present challenge with General Washington. https://thisweeksstory.com/blog.php https://thisweeksstory.com/blog.php Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:10:49 +0000 This Week's Story relives American history and the Bible through brief inspiring stories presented on audios and for reading. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2912 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2912 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 20:00:00 +0000 General Washington, is it necessary for Ukrainians to accept defeat? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2903 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2903 Sun, 27 Mar 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Lord, how can we travel when Russian tanks patrol the roads and jets buzz overhead? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2895 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2895 Sun, 20 Mar 2022 20:00:00 +0000 At dawn Russian troops invaded my country. Ukraine! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2892 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2892 Sun, 13 Mar 2022 20:00:00 +0000 Russia has invaded Ukraine. How do and can people and nations help? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2889 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2889 Sun, 06 Mar 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Grisha, a Russian soldier on a stalled convoy, awaits orders for attacking Kyiv, capitol of Ukraine. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2887 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2887 Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Phillis Wheatley: age seven, cargo on a slave ship; age thirteen publishing poetry https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2876 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2876 Sun, 20 Feb 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Mum Bett becomes the first slave in Massachusetts to be declared free according to the state constitution. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2874 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2874 Sun, 13 Feb 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Mum Bett courageously sues the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for her legal freedom. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2870 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2870 Sun, 06 Feb 2022 21:00:00 +0000 The new drill instructor's tactics at Valley Forge were shocking and successful! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2867 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2867 Sun, 30 Jan 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Discouragement, disease, and starvation stalk American soldiers at Valley Forge! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2866 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2866 Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:00:00 +0000 God told Adam, "This is your home, and you are the master gardener." https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2858 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2858 Sun, 16 Jan 2022 21:00:00 +0000 An attacking dog, a dog who loves, and and an abused dog build sensitivity and stewardship for "life." https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2852 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2852 Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Mixing New York City pet dogs, dog poo, and walking means trouble with a capital T. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2849 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2849 Sun, 02 Jan 2022 21:00:00 +0000 Mary travels 93 miles to Bethlehem on a donkey with her husband Joseph. What extraordinary event in history occurs there and to her? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2846 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2846 Sun, 26 Dec 2021 21:00:00 +0000 Mary is visited by an angel with an unusual message! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2844 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2844 Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:00:00 +0000 Jeremiah did not hide or run. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2837 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2837 Sun, 12 Dec 2021 21:00:00 +0000 Zed's defiance invites the brutality of Nebuchadnezzar. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2833 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2833 Sun, 05 Dec 2021 21:00:00 +0000 King Josiah's sons reject God. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2824 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2824 Sun, 28 Nov 2021 21:00:00 +0000 Desperation drove Jairus and a bleeding woman to Jesus. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2821 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2821 Sun, 21 Nov 2021 21:00:00 +0000 Squanto's hard times help him on an unusual mission to the Pilgrims. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2815 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2815 Sun, 14 Nov 2021 21:00:00 +0000 The Pilgrims suffer! Some survive their first winter in the New World. They are surprised by Samoset's visit. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2808 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2808 Sun, 07 Nov 2021 21:00:00 +0000 When thugs beat up a traveler, he is rescued by a man he despises. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2802 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2802 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Vision is more than eyesight! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2795 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2795 Sun, 24 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000 My parents' faith was not mine. I wanted to be me! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2789 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2789 Sun, 17 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000 He was a man on assignment in a land he loved. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2783 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2783 Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Trying to trap Jesus was no answer. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2780 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2780 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Coach Haskins answered, "I play my best players." https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2774 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2774 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000 A basketball team and coach with smarts and heart. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2761 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2761 Sun, 19 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000 What made Don Haskins a winning basketball coach against small and big-town schools? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2756 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2756 Sun, 12 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000 In 1966 Coach Haskins began the 1966 NCAA Division 1 basketball championship game with five black starters. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2752 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2752 Sun, 05 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000 "Follow the Leader" is a dangerous game when Ahab and Jezebel lead. Drought comes to Israel. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2747 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2747 Sun, 29 Aug 2021 20:00:00 +0000 God provides unique protective custody for Elijah. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2742 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2742 Sun, 22 Aug 2021 20:00:00 +0000 What Ahab wants, his wife Jezebel steals. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2741 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2741 Sun, 15 Aug 2021 20:00:00 +0000 General Washington refuses to surrender or allow his troops to commit sure suicide. How can they escape? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2735 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2735 Sun, 08 Aug 2021 20:00:00 +0000 As the America Declaration of Independence was adopted, enemy invasion forces were landing near New York City. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2716 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2716 Sun, 01 Aug 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Tenacity drove Marine recruits and the signers of the Declaration of Independence. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2708 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2708 Sun, 25 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Only in America would "such people" mix and argue about the government they wanted. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2702 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2702 Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000 The party is over and Belshazzar has failed the weighing. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2686 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2686 Sun, 11 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Belshazzar's party had a surprise guest with a devastating message! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2667 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2667 Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000 We are not worshipping this torn flag. It represents dreams and goals for life in our country. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2661 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2661 Sat, 26 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Mum Bett becomes the first slave in Massachusetts to be declared free according to the state constitution. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2650 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2650 Sun, 20 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Mum Bett courageously sues the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for her legal freedom. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2648 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2648 Sun, 13 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Will Rogers was the "common man." Nobody was too high or too low for him to sit and talk with. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2638 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2638 Sun, 06 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Is there a #1 American comedian? For years Americans said, "It's Will Rogers!" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2632 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2632 Sun, 30 May 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Stubby sometimes waited with a man until he could be rescued; sometimes he stayed with a man until he died. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2630 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2630 Sun, 23 May 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Stubby, a stray dog, is smuggled into France and serves as part of the U.S. Army's Yankee Division in World War I. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2624 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2624 Sun, 16 May 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Our dogs... Sparky, Scruffy, and Shadow! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2619 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2619 Sun, 09 May 2021 20:00:00 +0000 When Major André's boots were removed, a paper was found in his stocking. Then more papers were found. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2617 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2617 Mon, 03 May 2021 05:19:00 +0000 Benedict had an appalling and traitorous plan! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2615 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2615 Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:25:00 +0000 Finding spies for the Culper Spy Ring was a risky intelligence operation. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2614 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2614 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000 For what the Culper Spy Ring does now, there is no public applause. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2611 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2611 Sun, 11 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000 A Roman centurion is shocked by what happens at the crucifixion of Jesus. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2601 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2601 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Arrested, charged, tried, and sentenced! Unfair! Jesus is not guilty! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2600 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2600 Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Nathan Hale's hanging is investigated by his brother. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2596 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2596 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Druid priests and chieftains resist Patrick, but he keeps talking about Jesus and the Bible to poor and rich, slave and free. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2594 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2594 Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:00:00 +0000 Soon Patrick found himself alone with dumb sheep in Ireland, no one to be his friend. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2577 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2577 Sun, 07 Mar 2021 21:00:00 +0000 I knew I should wear green on St. Patrick's Day or I would get pinched. But, how come? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2574 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2574 Sun, 28 Feb 2021 21:00:00 +0000 Trying to trap Jesus was no answer. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2568 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2568 Sun, 21 Feb 2021 21:00:00 +0000 An Ironic Prescription: Use nasty arguments to support opinions. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2558 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2558 Sun, 14 Feb 2021 21:00:00 +0000 Charlie, can you be sure, that every Bible story with people doing what you have not seen, is fantasy? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2544 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2544 Sun, 07 Feb 2021 21:00:00 +0000 The new drill instructor's tactics at Valley Forge were shocking and successful! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2540 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2540 Sun, 31 Jan 2021 21:00:00 +0000 Discouragement, disease, and starvation stalk American soldiers at Valley Forge! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2537 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2537 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:00:00 +0000 Cockney flower seller hands flower to Winant. "Goodbye, sir. You've helped us in bad times and we shan't forget you." https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2533 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2533 Sun, 17 Jan 2021 21:00:00 +0000 In the midst of falling bombs Winant walked and asked victims, "What can I do to help you?" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2529 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2529 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:00:00 +0000 As World War II tossed the world an American ambassador helped Allied world leaders and common folk work together. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2519 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2519 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 21:00:00 +0000 There's no speed limit in American culture. We change fast, but the past is still here. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2516 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2516 Sun, 27 Dec 2020 21:00:00 +0000 Mary travels 93 miles to Bethlehem on a donkey with her husband Joseph. What extraordinary event in history occurs there and to her? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2512 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2512 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:00:00 +0000 Mary is visited by an angel with an unusual message! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2505 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2505 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:00:00 +0000 Ethan, we are regular guys, gripped with the thought that our country is in trouble. What has been good in our country and what can be good? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2498 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2498 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 21:00:00 +0000 COVID and the American election kicked us out of the status quo and into our quest! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2481 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2481 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:00:00 +0000 Ten diseased stinking men with leprosy want to see Jesus. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2478 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2478 Sun, 22 Nov 2020 21:00:00 +0000 Squanto's hard times help him on an unusual mission to the Pilgrims. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2468 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2468 Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:00:00 +0000 The Pilgrims suffer! Some survive their first winter in the New World. They are surprised by Samoset's visit. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2459 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2459 Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:00:00 +0000 Why does Jesus ask, "Peter, do you love me?" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2454 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2454 Sun, 01 Nov 2020 21:00:00 +0000 A student discovers American history in a fascinating textbook with intriguing stories. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2445 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2445 Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Should Israel change their form of government when their judges are corrupt? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2412 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2412 Sun, 18 Oct 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Could there be a Manor Farm with Farmer Jones and Napoleon, and everyone working to receive fair justice under the law? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2401 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2401 Sun, 11 Oct 2020 20:00:00 +0000 A Jewish fisherman and a Roman soldier, Peter and Cornelius, discover that God has no favorites. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2381 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2381 Sun, 04 Oct 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Jairus pleads, "Jesus, heal my daughter. Don't let her die" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2376 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2376 Sun, 27 Sep 2020 20:00:00 +0000 The worst rioting in U.S. history and the sacrifice of the 54th Regiment mark July 1863. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2354 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2354 Sun, 20 Sep 2020 20:00:00 +0000 A clever confederate strategy confronts the union's 54th Regiment of black NCO's and white officers, but their charge continues. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2346 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2346 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 20:00:00 +0000 One thousand black soldiers in 54th regiment choose to fight, despite unfair pay, terrible weather, and lack of sleep and food. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2339 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2339 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 20:00:00 +0000 The superb performance and skills of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Military Regiment far exceeded profiling of black soldiers. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2337 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2337 Sun, 30 Aug 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Why would America, famous as the land of freedom, allow slavery? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2334 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2334 Sun, 23 Aug 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Once I was blind; now I see. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2331 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2331 Sun, 16 Aug 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Winning or losing could be the prize. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2327 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2327 Sun, 09 Aug 2020 20:00:00 +0000 People are on a wild confusing ride with the English language. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2318 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2318 Sun, 02 Aug 2020 20:00:00 +0000 We are not worshipping this torn flag. It represents dreams and goals for life in our country. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2315 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2315 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Phillis Wheatley: age seven, cargo on a slave ship; age thirteen publishing poetry https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2308 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2308 Sun, 19 Jul 2020 20:00:00 +0000 A woman is caught breaking her marriage vows, and is brought to Jesus. What does he say? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2285 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2285 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Mum Bett becomes the first slave in Massachusetts to be declared free according to the state constitution. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2264 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2264 Sun, 05 Jul 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Mum Bett courageously sues the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for her legal freedom. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2251 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2251 Sun, 28 Jun 2020 20:00:00 +0000 We never forget the feeling of being rejected. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2249 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2249 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Do I have a guide? Do I need a moral compass? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2237 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2237 Sun, 14 Jun 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Skin color does not reveal if you are a human being, nor did The U.S. Compromise of 1850 find a mirror. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2227 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2227 Sun, 07 Jun 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Didn't the leper know where he belonged? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2222 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2222 Sun, 31 May 2020 20:00:00 +0000 A book that changed people's hearts and heads about slavery! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2219 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2219 Sun, 24 May 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Cain refuses to accept blame for his crime. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2216 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2216 Sun, 17 May 2020 20:00:00 +0000 I was amazed that Mom was so humble and strong that she apologized to me. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2210 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2210 Sun, 10 May 2020 20:00:00 +0000 COVID-19 changes the life of a teenager! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2206 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2206 Sun, 03 May 2020 20:00:00 +0000 My words tell you what He did and said, but words are too small to describe Him. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2203 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2203 Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Jesus was our coach, teacher, and friend; yet we did not know Him. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2198 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2198 Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:00:00 +0000 The pulse of a nation is measured by COVID-19. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2191 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2191 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 20:00:00 +0000 In one week COVID-19 changed the daily lives of a town. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2188 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2188 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Disaster is not the next step for Hezekiah or his nation. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2184 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2184 Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Sennacherib puffs hot air and Hezekiah listens. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2179 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2179 Sun, 22 Mar 2020 20:00:00 +0000 A brutal superpower confronts Hezekiah. What are his resources? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2173 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2173 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Judah's new leadership does not accept corrupt status quo. Changes begin! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2169 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2169 Sun, 08 Mar 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Hezekiah did not walk his father's path.. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2154 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2154 Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:00:00 +0000 Martha works hard and resents her sister Mary who sits listening to Jesus. Is one woman right and the other wrong? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2147 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2147 Sun, 23 Feb 2020 21:00:00 +0000 The Samaritan Woman: Most people ignored her. Jesus shared riches with her. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2140 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2140 Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:00:00 +0000 Carl's dream is not shattered amidst stress. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2135 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2135 Sun, 09 Feb 2020 21:00:00 +0000 How does a man pursue his dream? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2130 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2130 Sun, 02 Feb 2020 21:00:00 +0000 Carl navigates life-twists with school, military, and jobs; and his dream lives. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2127 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2127 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 21:00:00 +0000 Carl's travels in books ignite a dream. He will travel around the world. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2122 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2122 Sun, 19 Jan 2020 21:00:00 +0000 Will poor and rich Puritans keep their promise to work together in the New World? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2119 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2119 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:00:00 +0000 What could convince you to leave your country as John Winthrop did? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2113 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2113 Sun, 05 Jan 2020 21:00:00 +0000 John Winthrop visits a city bursting with change and danger! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2110 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2110 Sun, 29 Dec 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Moral dilemma: Do I obey God or you? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2107 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2107 Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Mary travels 93 miles to Bethlehem on a donkey with her husband Joseph. What extraordinary event in history occurs there and to her? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2105 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2105 Sun, 15 Dec 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Mary is visited by an angel with an unusual message! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2101 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2101 Sun, 08 Dec 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Samson is betrayed by Delilah and captured. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2098 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2098 Sun, 01 Dec 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Samson struggles with a dangerous gift and temptation. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2096 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2096 Sun, 24 Nov 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Squanto's hard times help him on an unusual mission to the Pilgrims. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2091 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2091 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Samson breaks his vow and twists his mission. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2084 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2084 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Samson and Muhammad Ali discuss Samson's unique mission. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2079 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2079 Sun, 03 Nov 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Ali's wins his third world heavyweight championship boxing title, and courageously confronts Parkinson's Disease. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2072 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2072 Sun, 27 Oct 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Muhammad Ali and Samson, men of fame, riddle, and tragedy, meet! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2068 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2068 Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:00:00 +0000 31 men, only one woman, and a new baby map a route across the West! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2070 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2070 Sun, 13 Oct 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Fact and fiction swirl around Sacajawea, including surprises. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2065 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2065 Sun, 06 Oct 2019 20:00:00 +0000 General Washington refuses to surrender or allow his troops to commit sure suicide. How can they escape? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2056 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2056 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Enemy invasion forces were landing near New York City, as the Declaration of Independence was adopted! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2051 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2051 Sun, 22 Sep 2019 20:00:00 +0000 What are the odds in a contest with 850 men + Baal versus 1 man and God? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2047 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2047 Sun, 15 Sep 2019 20:00:00 +0000 "Follow the Leader" is a dangerous game when Ahab and Jezebel lead. Drought comes to Israel. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2043 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2043 Sun, 08 Sep 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Elijah goes into hiding and God provides an unusual care plan. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2036 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2036 Sun, 01 Sep 2019 20:00:00 +0000 What Ahab wants, his wife Jezebel steals. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2028 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2028 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 20:00:00 +0000 How will we deal with a tornado of change? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2017 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2017 Sun, 18 Aug 2019 20:00:00 +0000 I do not fit into this crazy world! Every day I am expected to know new words and learn new skills. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2004 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=2004 Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:00:00 +0000 A Jewish fisherman and a Roman soldier, Peter and Cornelius, discover that God has no favorites. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1998 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1998 Sun, 04 Aug 2019 20:00:00 +0000 I was amazed that Mom was so humble and strong that she apologized to me. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1991 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1991 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 20:00:00 +0000 The Outsiders captivated my students and me, and millions of American students! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1971 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1971 Sun, 21 Jul 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Vision is more than eyesight! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1957 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1957 Sun, 14 Jul 2019 20:00:00 +0000 My parents' faith was not mine. I wanted to be me! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1948 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1948 Sun, 07 Jul 2019 20:00:00 +0000 He was a man on assignment in a land he loved. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1941 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1941 Sun, 30 Jun 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Will the guilty survive and the innocent die? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1939 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1939 Sun, 23 Jun 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Why didn't Jesus heal Lazarus before he died? Now his body is stinking. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1931 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1931 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Men surrounded Jesus."Who are you? Give us a straight answer." https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1919 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1919 Sun, 09 Jun 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Smiles light the faces of refugees and volunteers at the refugee shelter in Blythe, California. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1915 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1915 Sun, 02 Jun 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Compassion and respect shine in the Blythe refugee shelter. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1910 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1910 Mon, 27 May 2019 20:00:00 +0000 The Homeless come with many titles - legal refugees, illegal aliens - Crazy name! Who comes from another planet? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1907 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1907 Sun, 19 May 2019 20:00:00 +0000 A boy wants a fish and William Penn wants land. What will they give? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1898 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1898 Sun, 12 May 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Lafayette learned disciplines of hardship unlike any he had as an aristocrat. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1899 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1899 Sun, 05 May 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Lafayette eludes captors and reaches America https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1891 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1891 Sun, 28 Apr 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Why would a nineteen year old leave home to fight for another country? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1878 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1878 Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:00:00 +0000 A student discovers American history in a fascinating textbook with intriguing stories. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1871 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1871 Sun, 14 Apr 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Henry Ford convinces Americans that cars are not ridiculous! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1867 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1867 Sun, 07 Apr 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Henry Ford sees possibilities and has the "guts" to pursue them. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1854 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1854 Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Henry Ford: a born mechanic sees an astonishing vehicle https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1848 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1848 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Desperation drove Jairus and a bleeding woman to Jesus. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1846 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1846 Sun, 17 Mar 2019 20:00:00 +0000 TODAY: violence and compassion THEN: Conquistadores stole and New World priests served https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1832 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1832 Sun, 10 Mar 2019 20:00:00 +0000 Did Mum Bett, a slave woman, have the same right to be free and equal as granted in the Massachusetts Constitution? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1825 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1825 Sun, 03 Mar 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Mum Bett:first enslaved African American to file and win a freedom suit in Massachusetts https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1824 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1824 Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:00:00 +0000 A baby boy is rescued from death by sword. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1819 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1819 Sun, 17 Feb 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Martha works hard and resents her sister Mary who sits listening to Jesus? Is one woman right and the other wrong? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1816 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1816 Sun, 10 Feb 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Moral dilemma: Do I obey God or you? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1807 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1807 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Stubby sometimes waited with a man until he could be rescued; sometimes he stayed with a man until he died. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1798 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1798 Sun, 27 Jan 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Stubby, a stray dog, is smuggled into France and serves as part of the U.S. Army's Yankee Division in World War I. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1797 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1797 Sun, 20 Jan 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Our dogs... Sparky, Scruffy, and Shadow! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1791 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1791 Sun, 13 Jan 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Help comes for the Valley Forge survivors: food, clothing, and a shocking drill instructor - Baron von Steuben! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1784 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1784 Sun, 06 Jan 2019 21:00:00 +0000 Discouragement, disease, and starvation stalk American soldiers at Valley Forge! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1781 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1781 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 21:00:00 +0000 How does a mother love and guide a son unlike any boy she has known? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1773 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1773 Sun, 23 Dec 2018 21:00:00 +0000 Mary travels 93 miles to Bethlehem on a donkey with her husband Joseph. What extraordinary event in history occurs there and to her? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1770 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1770 Sun, 16 Dec 2018 21:00:00 +0000 Mary is visited by an angel with an unusual message! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1766 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1766 Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:00:00 +0000 John Chau: a disturbing story embedded in fact and surmise! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1762 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1762 Sun, 02 Dec 2018 21:00:00 +0000 They" condemn us with their impossible rules. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1759 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1759 Sun, 25 Nov 2018 21:00:00 +0000 Don't keep the children away from me. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1754 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1754 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 21:00:00 +0000 Squanto's hard times help him on an unusual mission to the Pilgrims. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1747 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1747 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 21:00:00 +0000 Paul and Silas were innocent convicts in a prison hole in Philippi. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1735 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1735 Sun, 04 Nov 2018 21:00:00 +0000 Paul and Silas were targeted by a wild young woman while walking on a busy street in Philippi, Greece. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1727 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1727 Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Didn't the leper know where he belonged? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1721 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1721 Sun, 21 Oct 2018 20:00:00 +0000 The Samaritan Woman: Most people ignored her. Jesus shared riches with her. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1705 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1705 Sun, 14 Oct 2018 20:00:00 +0000 General Washington refuses to surrender or allow his troops to commit sure suicide. How can they escape? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1699 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1699 Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Enemy invasion forces were landing near New York City, as the Declaration of Independence was adopted! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1685 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1685 Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Gigantic political fires burned in the United States in 1787. They burn now! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1675 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1675 Sun, 23 Sep 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Jackie Robinson agrees to be harrassed, in hopes of breaking the color barrier in American Major League baseball. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1670 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1670 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Pony Express action: Sam changed horses eight times and climbed about 4000 feet into the Sierra Nevadas https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1660 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1660 Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Through enemy attacks, blizzards, and mud young men on horseback delivered the U.S. mail for eighteen months. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1648 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1648 Sun, 02 Sep 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Will Rogers was the "common man." Nobody was too high or too low for him to sit and talk with. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1643 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1643 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Is there a #1 American comedian? For years Americans said, "It's Will Rogers!" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1589 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1589 Sun, 19 Aug 2018 20:00:00 +0000 How can the Israelite soldiers march around the city of Jericho and defeat it? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1569 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1569 Sun, 12 Aug 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Joshua accepts a battle plan that defies military experience. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1564 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1564 Sun, 05 Aug 2018 20:00:00 +0000 No sound system could replicate the Israelites' bursts of amazement as the waters of the River Jordan parted. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1560 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1560 Sun, 29 Jul 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Rahab makes a deal with two enemy spies and the Israelite nation crosses the Jordan River. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1551 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1551 Sun, 22 Jul 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Joshua sends two spies and mobilizes Israelite forces to enter the Promised Land. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1548 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1548 Sun, 15 Jul 2018 20:00:00 +0000 For forty years Moses led a nation of stiff-necked complaining rebels! https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1546 https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1546 Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:49:00 +0000 Audio Recordings and read-alongs can be enjoyed at lunch, in classes, cars, trucks, or while doing chores. Read-alongs are in Spanish and English. They enforce expressive reading and fluency. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1543 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1543 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 20:00:00 +0000 God told Adam, "This is your home, and you are the master gardener." https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1541 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1541 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Glenn lost his savings and arrived at the University of Kansas with $7.65 in his pocket. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1536 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1536 Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Glenn Cunningham's "great strength, his courageous attitude, and his strong heart and lungs make up for his lack of normal legs." https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1533 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1533 Sun, 17 Jun 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Glenn Cunningham, age 11, competes against high school boys in his first track meet without knowing the rules. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1529 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1529 Sun, 10 Jun 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Glenn Cunningham, later to become a champion runner, is caught in a fire. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1525 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1525 Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Not only was Wilma Rudolph fast, she was beautiful and graceful with a hard-to-believe story. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1520 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1520 Sun, 27 May 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Polio is not going to determine what Wilma can do. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1516 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1516 Sun, 20 May 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Nobody has the power to block Big Man Neb. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1510 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1510 Sun, 13 May 2018 20:00:00 +0000 I prefer crowds where there's physical and mental room. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1505 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1505 Sun, 06 May 2018 20:00:00 +0000 What more do I need to know before I can accept Paul's testimony? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1501 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1501 Sun, 29 Apr 2018 20:00:00 +0000 What if someone from Onesimus's hometown recognized him in Rome as a fugitive from slavery? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1496 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1496 Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Onesimus, a slave to a man, cannot understand why Paul chooses to be a slave to Jesus Christ. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1491 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1491 Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Could the prisoner be attached to the people who meet in Philemon's home? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1488 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1488 Sun, 08 Apr 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Will anyone recognize Onesimus as a slave, or worse, as an escaped slave? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1485 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1485 Sun, 01 Apr 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Onesimus runs from his slavery. What can his owner do? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1480 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1480 Sun, 25 Mar 2018 20:00:00 +0000 Druid priests and chieftains resist Patrick, but he keeps talking about Jesus and the Bible to poor and rich, slave and free. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1474 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1474 Sun, 18 Mar 2018 20:00:00 +0000 St. Patrick is kicked to an auction block and sold in Ireland. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1470 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1470 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:00:00 +0000 I knew I should wear green on St. Patrick's Day or I would get pinched. But, how come? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1468 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1468 Sun, 04 Mar 2018 21:00:00 +0000 A huge Philistine soldier challenges any Israeli soldier to fight him. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1465 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1465 Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:00:00 +0000 An Irish-American family journeys to understanding. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1462 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1462 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:00:00 +0000 A grey stone, proposal, and family briefing are drawing Andy's family to Ireland https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1456 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1456 Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:00:00 +0000 Andy's proposal shocks his father, who believes his son does not know how to work or earn money. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1455 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1455 Sun, 04 Feb 2018 21:00:00 +0000 Dad likes to think I could be like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, or Tesla. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1449 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1449 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:00:00 +0000 Ten diseased stinking men with leprosy want to see Jesus. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1446 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1446 Sun, 21 Jan 2018 21:00:00 +0000 A man discovers that Jesus is not intimidated by people who hate him. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1435 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1435 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:00:00 +0000 Hungarians bravely respond to the Russians' return! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1432 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1432 Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:00:00 +0000 Will freedom last or will Soviet Union military forces return to Budapest? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1427 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1427 Sun, 31 Dec 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Day three of the revolution! Is freedom possible in Hungary? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1424 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1424 Sun, 24 Dec 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Mary travels 93 miles to Bethlehem on a donkey with her husband Joseph. What extraordinary event in history occurs there and to her? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1418 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1418 Sun, 17 Dec 2017 21:00:00 +0000 The Hungarian Revolution begins with students, teachers, and soon workers, soldiers, teenagers, etc.! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1414 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1414 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Hungarians in the Revolution of 1956 fought for liberty as many people do today. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1411 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1411 Sun, 03 Dec 2017 21:00:00 +0000 A boy watches his people begin the Hungarian Revolution in the Cold War. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1406 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1406 Sun, 26 Nov 2017 21:00:00 +0000 As the Hungarian Revolution erupts, a fifteen year old boy struggles between what he believes about communism and his family's convictions. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1403 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1403 Sun, 19 Nov 2017 21:00:00 +0000 A Hungarian student believes communism will give his country great opportunities in the 1950's. His father disagrees. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1399 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1399 Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Chief Fred Ewan: a servant-leader in pioneer and modern days https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1393 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1393 Sun, 05 Nov 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Which leader would you choose? Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Angela Merkel, Enrique Peña Nieto, Donald Trump, or Queen Elizabeth https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1387 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1387 Sun, 29 Oct 2017 20:00:00 +0000 General Washington refuses to surrender or allow his troops to commit sure suicide. How can they escape? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1373 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1373 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:00:00 +0000 As the America Declaration of Independence was adopted, enemy invasion forces were landing near New York City. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1366 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1366 Sun, 15 Oct 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Cain points the finger: "God and my parents treated me unfairly." https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1355 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1355 Sun, 08 Oct 2017 20:00:00 +0000 As the wind swooshed by with the chariot and horses, Elijah disappeared into it and was swept upwards. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1345 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1345 Sun, 01 Oct 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Elijah delivers God's messages. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1339 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1339 Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:00:00 +0000 What were the resources of Elijah, the poor widow, and myself? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1334 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1334 Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:00:00 +0000 By age 24 George Whitefield had preached to more Americans than anyone alive. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1329 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1329 Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Dorothea Dix: Some kids talk about their families. I don't. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1322 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1322 Sun, 03 Sep 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Dorothea Dix wanted nothing written about herself. Instead she quietly changed history. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1320 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1320 Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Dorothea Dix finished her jail visit, but the cages, screams, and faces of helpless outcasts did not leave her. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1311 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1311 Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:00:00 +0000 How did you receive your name? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1306 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1306 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:00:00 +0000 How can you believe Elizabeth and Zechariah's fantasy? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1303 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1303 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Daniel Boone, skilled frontiersman, leads a rescue party for his kidnapped daughter Jemima. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1299 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1299 Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Zechariah was not a grumpy old man, though he disagreed with the angel Gabriel. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1286 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1286 Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:00:00 +0000 A happy old childless couple receive an unbelievable promise. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1276 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1276 Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Laugh with Will Rogers; see Goliath's defeat; and discover a microbe in a mama tick. It's all in This Week's Story! https://thisweeksstory.com/blog.php?p=1274 https://thisweeksstory.com/blog.php?p=1274 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 08:23:00 +0000 Our convention team returned home Saturday night. Many people came to our booth. Several became curious about reading and hearing stories on thisweeksstory.com. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1270 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1270 Sun, 09 Jul 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Thomas Jefferson and a prejudiced English farmer present true horror for Thomas Paine. https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1266 https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1266 Fri, 07 Jul 2017 01:08:00 +0000 Illustrations for the fifteen stories collection from American history on citizens. They inform and inspire students in American history and civics classes. https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1265 https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1265 Fri, 07 Jul 2017 01:03:00 +0000 Twelve stories hook the wonder of students. Read and discuss the stories, explore and answer the questions, investigate the experiments, and build vocabulary. https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1264 https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1264 Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:45:00 +0000 The fifteen stories in this collection are American history. They inform and inspire students in American history and civics classes, and assist immigrants. https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1263 https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1263 Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:22:00 +0000 All fifteen stories in Citizenship A are from American history. Packet A is developed for mainstream or advanced fourth through eighth graders. https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1261 https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php?p=1261 Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:22:00 +0000 Stories from the Bible and American History, that combine familiar and fresh details with everyday language. Children, teens, and adults will enjoy these. https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php https://thisweeksstory.com/store.php Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:27:09 +0000 This Week's Story relives American history and the Bible through brief inspiring stories presented on audios and for reading. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1260 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1260 Sun, 02 Jul 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Common Sense: How could anyone resist it? It became a wildcat edition. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1253 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1253 Sun, 25 Jun 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Without stories we lose our identity. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1249 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1249 Sun, 18 Jun 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Moses climbed up Mt Sinai into a dense. cloud. There God spoke words that revolutionized laws and behaviors in many nations. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1242 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1242 Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:00:00 +0000 As the Israelites waited near Mt. Sinai to meet God, smoke billowed from the mountain and an earthquake shook it. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1240 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1240 Sun, 04 Jun 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Jesus told his students, "If you want to be first, that means you will serve!" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1237 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1237 Sun, 28 May 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Medals... Nightmares... Gambling follow Audie Murphy. https://thisweeksstory.com/blog.php?p=1296 https://thisweeksstory.com/blog.php?p=1296 Fri, 26 May 2017 07:21:00 +0000 We started with a teacher, Barbara Steiner, who was passionate about students. She refused to believe that boredom is acceptable, and determined to help change. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1236 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1236 Sun, 21 May 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Audie Murphy stands atop a burning tank destroyer firing a machine gun and blocks an enemy attack at Holtzwihr. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1234 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1234 Sun, 14 May 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Audie Murphy was rejected by three branches of the U.S. military. Later the nation recognized his skill and courage in combat. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1223 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1223 Sun, 07 May 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Will Rogers was the "common man." Nobody was too high or too low for him to sit and talk with. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1216 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1216 Sun, 30 Apr 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Is there a #1 American comedian? For years Americans said, "It's Will Rogers!" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1212 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1212 Sun, 23 Apr 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Joseph's brothers discover Pharaoh's second-in-command is their brother! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1210 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1210 Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Can Benjamin's ten brothers rescue him from slavery? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1207 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1207 Sun, 09 Apr 2017 20:00:00 +0000 A mystery: Why does a powerful Egyptian official treat ten foreign brothers cruelly and kindly? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1205 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1205 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:00:00 +0000 In desperation, Jacob allows his youngest son to be taken to Egypt https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1201 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1201 Sun, 26 Mar 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Jacob's ten guilty sons are falsely charged, imprisoned, and strangely sent home. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1199 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1199 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Have Jacob's ten sons been betrayed for someone's evil deeds? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1195 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1195 Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Jacob's sons can starve at home or go to Egypt hoping to buy food. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1191 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1191 Sun, 05 Mar 2017 21:00:00 +0000 James Madison and Tupac Shakur each fought for what he considered justice. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1187 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1187 Sun, 26 Feb 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Where can you find a physician who goes to her patients day or night, begins a hospital and a medical college? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1183 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1183 Sun, 19 Feb 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Elizabeth Blackwell was threatened, insulted, rejected, and respected. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1180 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1180 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Elizabeth Blackwell fights loss of her eye and opens her medical office. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1173 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1173 Sun, 05 Feb 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Dr. Blackwell was revolutionary! No "nice" woman in the 1840's talked and acted as she did. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1170 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1170 Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Elizabeth,"For a woman to become a doctor is unfeminine and impossible!" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1167 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1167 Sun, 22 Jan 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Discouragement, disease, and starvation stalk American soldiers at Valley Forge! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1165 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1165 Sun, 15 Jan 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Few people knew the many ways Abigail Adams used her brilliance and skills for the cause of American freedom. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1162 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1162 Sun, 08 Jan 2017 21:00:00 +0000 Something very strange is happening. Five loaves of bread and two fish do not feed thousands of hungry people! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1161 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1161 Mon, 02 Jan 2017 21:00:00 +0000 A man discovers that Jesus is not intimidated by people who hate him. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1159 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1159 Sun, 25 Dec 2016 21:00:00 +0000 Mary is visited by an angel with an unusual message! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1156 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1156 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 21:00:00 +0000 Vision is more than eyesight! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1153 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1153 Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:00:00 +0000 My parents' faith was not mine. I wanted to be me! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1148 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1148 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:00:00 +0000 He was a man on assignment in a land he loved. https://thisweeksstory.com/blog.php?p=1149 https://thisweeksstory.com/blog.php?p=1149 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 05:54:00 +0000 We started with a teacher, Barbara Steiner, who was passionate about students. She refused to believe that boredom is acceptable, and determined to help change. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1140 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1140 Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:00:00 +0000 Balaam wonders, "God told me to bless Israel and the king told me to curse Israel. What should I do?" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1133 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1133 Sun, 20 Nov 2016 21:00:00 +0000 God gives speech to a donkey and controls the tongue of a sneaky prophet. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1130 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1130 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 21:00:00 +0000 There's no speed limit in American culture. We change fast, but the past is still here. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1128 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1128 Sun, 06 Nov 2016 21:00:00 +0000 People were bored with "religion" and crime was common when The Second Great Awakening began in New York State. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1124 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1124 Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Why didn't Jesus heal Lazarus before he died? Now his body is stinking. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1123 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1123 Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Men surrounded Jesus. "Who are you? Give us a straight answer." https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1119 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1119 Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:00:00 +0000 A choice between two babies requires extraordinary wisdom from Solomon. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1113 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1113 Sun, 09 Oct 2016 20:00:00 +0000 A man is a man no matter what color his skin is. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1110 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1110 Sun, 02 Oct 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Lately we've been travelling with Jesus. Life with him is never ordinary. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1106 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1106 Sun, 25 Sep 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Chief Fred Ewan has lived off the land; traveled on foot, snowshoes, and dogsled; and faced forces he could not stop. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1102 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1102 Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:00:00 +0000 God told Adam, "This is your home, and you are the master gardener." https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1097 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1097 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:00:00 +0000 The judge declared, "If this girl can survive the abuse that happened to her, there is hope for any foster child." https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1094 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1094 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Officially, Susan was a foster child. How she hated that title! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1091 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1091 Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Japanese-American soldiers fight bravely and die in the U.S. 442 Regimental Combat Team, while many of their families are in U.S. internment camps. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1088 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1088 Sun, 21 Aug 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Yasutaka and his family are forced to live at an internment camp in California, because they are Japanese-American during World War II. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1085 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1085 Sun, 14 Aug 2016 20:00:00 +0000 When thugs beat up a traveler, he is rescued by a man he despises. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1074 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1074 Sun, 07 Aug 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Druid priests and chieftains resist Patrick, but he keeps talking about Jesus and the Bible to poor and rich, slave and free. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1067 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1067 Sun, 31 Jul 2016 20:00:00 +0000 St. Patrick is kicked to an auction block and sold in Ireland. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1064 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1064 Sun, 24 Jul 2016 20:00:00 +0000 I knew I should wear green on St. Patrick's Day or I would get pinched. But, how come? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1057 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1057 Sun, 17 Jul 2016 20:00:00 +0000 A huge Philistine soldier challenges any Israeli soldier to fight him. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1051 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1051 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Will poor and rich Puritans keep their promise to work together in the New World? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1048 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1048 Sun, 03 Jul 2016 20:00:00 +0000 What could convince you to leave your country as John Winthrop did? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1045 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1045 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 20:00:00 +0000 John Winthrop discovers a different world in a filthy, crowded, and dangerous city! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1040 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1040 Sun, 19 Jun 2016 20:00:00 +0000 What are the odds in a contest with 850 men + Baal versus 1 man and God? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1037 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1037 Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:00:00 +0000 "Follow the Leader" is a dangerous game when Ahab and Jezebel lead. Drought comes to Israel. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1032 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1032 Sun, 05 Jun 2016 20:00:00 +0000 God provides unique protective custody for Elijah. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1019 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1019 Sun, 29 May 2016 20:00:00 +0000 What Ahab wants, his wife Jezebel steals. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1022 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1022 Sun, 22 May 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Elena pursues her GRAND AMERICAN DREAM and becomes a teacher! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1016 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1016 Sun, 15 May 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Why would Americans in the Thirteen Colonies and a soldier deployed in Iraq read The Pilgrim's Progress? Did they have nothing better to do? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1009 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1009 Sun, 08 May 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Peter escapes from prison while the guards are in a strange coma. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1003 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1003 Sun, 01 May 2016 20:00:00 +0000 "Abigail Adams, we Americans are having huge problems. How did you handle intense disagreement?" https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1000 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=1000 Sun, 24 Apr 2016 20:00:00 +0000 How could one escaped slave woman do what Harriet Tubman did? (She is the new face on the US twenty dollar bill.) https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=990 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=990 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Billy Sunday, National League baseball player and evangelist, spoke to over 100 million people without loudspeakers, TV, or radio. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=983 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=983 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Conversation with Lincoln: Our belief in freedom is worthless, if our words make slaves. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=980 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=980 Sun, 03 Apr 2016 20:00:00 +0000 God rejected me, and Mom and Dad smeared my reputation. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=979 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=979 Sun, 27 Mar 2016 20:00:00 +0000 31 men, only one woman, and a new baby map a route across the West! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=974 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=974 Sun, 20 Mar 2016 20:00:00 +0000 Fact and fiction swirl around Sacajawea, including surprises. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=971 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=971 Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:00:00 +0000 King Saul was handsome, powerful, and consumed with jealousy! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=961 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=961 Sun, 06 Mar 2016 21:00:00 +0000 Conquistadors came murdering and stealing; young priests came serving and suffering to the New World. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=896 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=896 Sun, 28 Feb 2016 21:00:00 +0000 The newsbuster from Theobald Smith was:Get rid of the insect and the disease disappears! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=850 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=850 Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:00:00 +0000 Theobald Smith begins a bizarre trail of discovery after thousands of cattle die mysteriously. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=791 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=791 Sun, 14 Feb 2016 21:00:00 +0000 Paul and Silas, though innocent, are put into stocks in the inner hole of Philippi's prison. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=790 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=790 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 21:00:00 +0000 A wild young woman targets Paul and Silas in Philippi. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=788 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=788 Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:00:00 +0000 Ladies and gentlemen! You are about to see the one and only magnificent Ringling Brothers' Circus. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=779 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=779 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:00:00 +0000 Dallas and Matiel Wicks are salt, wherever they go, but they aren't famous. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=695 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=695 Sun, 17 Jan 2016 21:00:00 +0000 King Josiah wanted to know God and lead a nation. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=675 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=675 Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:00:00 +0000 Can Josiah at age sixteen become a good leader despite rotten family patterns? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=671 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=671 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:00:00 +0000 A son rebels against his father's faith and nearly destroys himself and his nation. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=196 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=196 Sun, 27 Dec 2015 21:00:00 +0000 An exhausting trip ends with the birth of Jesus Christ in a Bethlehem cave. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=646 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=646 Sun, 20 Dec 2015 21:00:00 +0000 Mary is visited by an angel with an unusual message! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=643 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=643 Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:00:00 +0000 American child abandoned in Mexico https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=635 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=635 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 21:00:00 +0000 Gigantic political fires burned in the United States in 1787. They burn now! https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=633 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=633 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 21:00:00 +0000 The Samaritan Woman: Most people ignored her. Jesus shared riches with her. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=629 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=629 Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:00:00 +0000 What may happen when foreigners change your home? https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=627 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=627 Sun, 15 Nov 2015 21:00:00 +0000 Squanto's traumas help his mission to the Pilgrims. https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=623 https://thisweeksstory.com/audio.php?p=623 Sun, 08 Nov 2015 21:00:00 +0000 In 1620 Pilgrims fled to find freedom of worship. 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