Mastering Life’s Challenges: How to Win the 5-Second Game

Ask Cowboys Defensive Coordinator Mike Zimmer, who unexpectedly lost his beautiful wife to natural causes in 2009 at age 50, how to master challenges like the sudden death of a spouse.

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Cowboys Head Defensive Coach Mike Zimmer faces family losses/Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

Ask him how he coped when he got a phone call that his son and best friend, a talented NFL coach himself, was found dead on his couch alone in his apartment at age 38.

The sudden death of a spouse or a child ranks number one as life’s most significant stressor.

Ask Coach Zimmer how football, the game he loves, knows, and coaches is a metaphor for handling life’s toughest challenges.

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Faulty airbag: 3 rules to avoid auto accidents forever

I have avoided auto accidents and faulty airbags all of my life, until last week.

On my way to the gym, I enter an intersection I’ve driven a thousand times.

A black Mazda abruptly turns into me delivering a crashing blow.

Upon impact, airbags from the steering wheel and driver’s door exploded, pulverizing my left arm with abrasions, cuts, and hematomas.

I get out fast.

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Apocalypse in Israel: Is Mass Murder and War a Sign of End Times?

Apocalypse in Israel or not, trauma is a daily episode in the modern world.

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Israeli soldiers inspect the music festival attack site on October 13, 2023/Associated Press

Survivors of the Supernova music festival in southern Israel say the scene looked like the apocalypse.

  • Sky full of rockets at 6:30 AM
  • Suiciders blocking exits
  • Shooters everywhere

“This may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades.” Jamie Dimon, CEO JP Morgan Chase, 10/13/2023

The chief executive of the world’s largest bank said the terror attack in Israel and the Ukraine war have far-reaching effects on trade, markets and relationships for years to come.

The Bible details a number of alarming signs for “the end of the age.”

Here are two unfolding today with growing lethality.

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Maui Wildfires: 3 Essential Survival Tips You Must Know Now

The Maui wildfires are the deadliest in the U.S. in over 100 years.

  • 2200 structures burned
  • 115 found dead so far
  • 850 remain missing
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Destroyed homes and cars, Aug. 13, 2023, Lahaina, Hawaii/AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

If you lost everything in a wildfire, could you survive?

“You ever seen hell in the movies? That is what it looked like. Fire everywhere. Dead people.” Kekoa Lansford, Lahaina resident

Three parachutes allow anyone to survive the worst disasters. Not avoid, but survive.

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Sick and Tired of Mass Murder? Then Do This

Sick and tired of mass murder in America?

The USA has suffered 213 mass shootings since January 2022.

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Shooting victim Nevaeh Bravo in Uvalde, TX/Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images

Animals don’t commit mass murder.

Sick human beings do.

I say “sick” because why else does someone murder children?

Salvador Ramos shot his grandmother before murdering 21 at Robb Elementary School.

Just days earlier, ten were shot dead in a racially motivated attack at a Buffalo, NY supermarket.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, mass shootings in the USA totaled . . .

  • 693 in 2021
  • 611 in 2020
  • 417 in 2019

Why does God allow something like this?

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