Daily Got a Minute Message with John Ed

Creativity is a great asset in life. It also will help you in your business. Andrew Hiers is a car salesman in Cocoa, Florida. To advertise cars he wants to sell, he uses his skill as a classically trained opera singer. He makes a video of himself performing a robust aria in his bass-baritone voice while standing in the car lot. He makes up the words for the sale and records it. These videos go vi...

How do you deal with your frustrations and stress? There have been several clubs pop up recently across the United States that are called scream clubs. It started in Chicago by a couple of folks who discovered that screaming outdoors helped them cope with their frustrations. Now there are several more groups that have come into being in places like Austin, Detroit, and Seattle. The members of the...

One of the best ways to market an item is to have the President of the United States use it. I remember President Obama bringing back to the White House one day hamburgers from a certain chain, gave it to the staff people, and all of a sudden the sale of burgers at that chain rose dramatically. Recently, President Trump was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as falling in love with a brand of affor...

Things are being created to get people from one place to another more quickly. We recently witnessed the fastest form of travel with Artemis 2 carrying some astronauts places that nobody else had ever been. There is some footage that has come to light which shows Greg Phillips, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Office of Response and Recovery, stating that he had been involunta...

Where have you been lately? A young 19-year-old boy, Arjun Malavlya, wants to set the Guiness World Record to be the youngest person to visit every nation. He has already visited 118 different countries, beginning in South Korea. He has two years left to visit the remaining 77 U.N. recognized states. He has a Google translate which helps him in remote villages. He has only spent $22,500. The bigge...

Shay Taylor-Allen was a janitor at the Yale New Haven Hospital where she was born. She finished high school and had no desire to go to college. So, she started working as a janitor at Yale New Haven Hospital. Through her work there, she started pursuing medical school. She said, “I want to build a bridge between doctors and other service workers.” She was able to get into Howard University College...

In a French mayoral election recently, the two candidates have the interesting names of Hitler and Zielinski. I couldn’t pronounce their first names. They had a bitter battle in campaigning. They said the biggest thing to overcome was the fact that people were not interested in their political platforms and what they thought as much as they were just interested in their names, Hitler versus Zielin...

More of us ought to be more conscious of people who make life better for us and thank them for it in some way. In Richardson, Texas at the Moss Haven Elementary School, a crossing guard, Trecia Crawford, was honored by a group of dads whose kids she helps cross the road, discovered that her car had broken down and she was taking the bus to work. The dad wanted to thank her for keeping their kids s...

Kayla Kleine and her husband live in Vancouver, British Columbia. They have a little 6-pound Pomeranian, Scout. A big bear entered their home and walked into the kitchen. He started eating out of the little puppy’s bowl when that tiny fluff ball came sprinting around the corner. When he saw the bear eating out of his bowl, he started barking and chased him out through the garden and over a fence....

Albert Einstein once said, “The world is too dangerous to live in, not because of the people who do evil but because of the people who sit and let it happen.”  Years ago, Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”  In the New Testament James says, “Whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”  Some people just go t...

Just after the resurrection of Jesus and the early church was forming, Peter and John were arrested for speaking out for Jesus. They came before the Council Chamber and the Council commanded them never again to speak or teach in the name of Jesus. Peter and John said, “Do you think God wants us to obey you rather than Him. We cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard.” Hey, do yo...

Years ago, many roads in the south were dirt roads and became muddy and a big mess during rainy weather.  One day a young boy was traveling down such a road with his father.  They came up on a neatly dressed man whose car was stuck in the mud.  The man was standing in the mud trying to get his car out.  The father stopped and asked the man, “How are you doing?”  The man looked at him, with a confi...

The whole world was shocked a few years ago when we watched Notre Dame De Paris engulfed in flames.  A huge cloud of smoke covered Paris.  People looked on in anguish and dismay.  It wasn’t known if any of the valuable relics from inside could be saved.  The Chaplain of the Paris fire brigade, Rev. Jean-Marc Fournier courageously went back several times into the burning flames to rescue holy artif...

We all have talents – we need to use them in a productive way that honors God and helps others.  Bill Waldschnidt loved working on classic cars.  Today he’s working on another means of transportation.  He is a retired Minnesota engineer.  He had polio at age 4 and had to walk on crutches.  As an adult he had rehabbed enough that he could walk without crutches.  15 years ago, post-polio syndrome pu...

Sometimes a joke is really appropriate and sometimes people don’t get the joke. A Texas police officer had encountered a couple of men who were being questioned as suspects in an illegal operation. In order to sort of lighten the mood for their conversation, the Texas officer, who was on horseback, simply said that his horse was a “narcotic-smelling horse.” The suspect started running immediately...

Think before you do something foolish. That would have been good advice for Nathan Remington of Yorkshire, England to have followed recently. He is a truck driver and really wanted to have some gummy candies. He lost all sense of discipline and ate seven pounds of cola-flavored gummies. He ate them over a three-day period. He started having intense pain in his stomach. He went to the doctor, who d...

There is a new business in Japan. Funeral homes and spas have started a trend—coffin lying. You can rent the inside of a coffin and meditate about death. The cost is $13 and you can use an open or closed casket. Some of the people offering coffin lying will play music or visuals projected inside the coffin. It is designed to calm your fears about death. One owner said that designer caskets help pe...

God gives us financial resources and expects us to be good stewards of them. In 45 states last year, Americans spent over $100 billion on lotteries. Combining all of those would make U.S. lotteries the country’s ninth most profitable company. The tragedy is that the poorest 1 percent of households spend an average of $600 a year on lottery tickets, which is 30 times greater than the percentage spe...

As the early church started to grow, Luke records in Acts 4 how all of the leaders began to unite against Jesus and his servants Paul and John and the other disciples. He lists that Herod, Pontius Pilot, the Governor, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel who were united against him. Peter and John began to pray and asked for boldness in speaking out against the culture. God granted them that bol...

Every day we can complain about a lot of things, or we can be grateful that we are alive, that God has given us another day to live, that we have food to eat, and that we have a purpose for the day.  A 10-week experiment was conducted at the University of California at Davis where participants had to write down 5 things every day for which they were grateful.  Those who participated reported 28% l...

Jesus never minced words. He called it like it really is. What He says is not to make you feel better, but to offer you a good choice for your values in life.

Being a beautiful person is not how you look in a photo that can be photoshopped. Real beauty is internal. Real beauty is not how you look in a picture, but how you live in fulfilling God’s purpose for you!

Most of us want to do something good in life but we find excuses as why we don’t start now.  We tend to think we will wait until another time.  Let me remind us, we do not have to have all our ducks in a row to start sharing with other people - not at all.

If you want to communicate something, don’t make it too complex, too inflammatory, too simple—pick out the right words to communicate what you intend to communicate. A good translation is John 3:16 and all the parables that Jesus taught.

The most valuable words you have are God’s words of faith, hope, love. Those are not negative and they do carry with them a possibility of something different. Let your actions today communicate the words of faith, hope, and love.