Eccles' Stories

              When I was taking my morning walk to the dumpster to throw the trash away, I noticed the  dumpster reeked.  It smelt as if something had crawled into it and died.  I really did not want to know what my sense of smell was smelling.  I just assumed that it was either a squirrel or a cat, or something  as I walked away.                At which time I saw Mr. Fisherman throw three trash bags of trash into the dumpster.  I yelled  hello to him, but he just ignored me as he usually did.  About that time a rotting corpse came out of the  trash dumpster.  The rotting corpse was neither cat nor squirrel, but that of a human being with body  parts falling off.  He was missing an ear and said, "Ugg".  Everyone in all direction ran from the  corpse which stank to high heavens.               Even though ...

            Long ago in the state of Oklahoma, when I was nothing but a teenager, my cousin had a brand  new moped.  My cousin had been having fun tearing up my grandparents' yard with his moped.  He  soon called for me to go on a ride on it, and I being young had no better since than to agree to it.   Neither of us realized that the moped would not put up with the weight of the two of us.         What I did know was that it looked like loads of fun.  I got on to the bike, and as we went for our  second or third loop the bike fell over.  I started to limp on my leg, but my uncle called me a faker.  He  said, "That's the worst fake job I ever did see."          I went home that night from Nowata to Bartlesville with my leg in pain.  The next morning my  mother saw that my leg was still hurting me, and took me to Jane Phillips Hospital to have it chec...

  Demons       There is a whole worship set up around the sect of demons, as well as myths.  Yet demons are  nothing more and nothing less than fallen angels.  The only power which demons have over us is that which we give them.  If we stay true to Christ, they cannot nor will not possess us as we are told in the stories of old.          Demons walked this earth possessing bodies only for a certain time.  After the death of Christ  demon possession was no longer needed.  Demon possession was only used as proof that Christ had  power over the Devil, which He has today.  After the crucifixion of Christ, the demons were thrown into the abyss with Satan, the place also known as hell.          There are mental or physical problems we have today that seem as demonic, but with Christ help we can overcome these too.  There are also certain fleshly sins which we invite into our...

             Do we find value in God, or do we find our value someplace else?  In I Timothy 6:6 we find it says, "godliness with contentment is great gain."  The word godliness comes from the Greek word eusebeia which means, piety, specifically the gospel scheme, godliness, holiness.  The word  contentment on the other hand comes from the Greek word autarkeia which means self-satisfaction.   So, according to this verse alone our value should be in God.            For if our self-satisfaction is found in God then so will our lives be.  If, however, our godliness makes us content then we too should want to "go out and preach the gospel to every creature making new Christians." Mark 16:15-16 For you see if truly we find value in God we would want to go out preaching Christ was crucified and resurrected for our sins.           In verse 7 it sa...

           It was a cold, dark, cloudy day, and Cinderella had just gotten a tattoo placed on her arm.  She  was so proud of it that she was showing it off to everyone.  While it made some people sick, others  liked it saying they wanted one too.  Two people noticed that something was wrong with her arm  though for it had bruising and swelling from the elbow to her hand.          These two friends (Dick and Jane) took her out to eat at a fancy restaurant.  Jane who had a tattoo spoke to her first telling her that she needed to go see a doctor.  She refused saying that it was just a  rare side effect to the tattoo.  Dick thought maybe she had no insurance and could not afford it.  Cinderella assured him that she had insurance with Med Mob.  Knowing this fact Dick advised her to  go see the doctor.  She once again refused saying, "You do not know what you are talkin...

                    Pat Spade lived on Old Oak Street, and a beautiful blond had moved in next door to him.  He believed in saving all souls, and that would have included dogs if he could.  So, he went over to his  new neighbor's house to invite her to Bible study.  To which his neighbor named Pauline said, "I am sure, your Bible studies are nice and all, but I believe there are forces of good, and forces of evil.  I do not believe that there is a God or a Devil.  Therefor no need for a heaven or hell.  When we die, we are  just reincarnated into someone, or something else, depending on how we behaved on this earth."                  Pat was saddened by this discourse she had just given him.  For she had told him her belief system in just a few short sentences.  Pat shook his head at the realization that there was no eternal  hope for her....

  The following is a complete work of fiction any likenesses to any persons  alive or dead is purely a coincidence.                     Jeremy's dog, Stormy needed to be taken to the groomers' very bad.  It's hair and nails  were way too long.   The problem was that Jeremy was out of cash and didn't have the money to put  sixty dollars down on his dog at the time being.  His friend Rohnda did have the money, and took the  dog to the Doggy Beauty Salon to have the dog taken care of and pampered.                    Rohnda had them do a flee treatment as well to the dog.  When the Doggy Beauty Salon was finished with Stormy he was a brand-new dog.  Stormy's breath was minty fresh, and his teeth were so  white that they sparkled like diamonds.  All the dogs that went there received the same treatment.        ...

               At N.A.S.A. had pictures that had been returned to them from the land rover on Mars showing water on the South Pole.  So, they had a discussion over whether they should go to Mars or not.  They  figured it would take nine months to get there, three months working there, then nine months to get  back.  For a total of twenty-one months in all.  So that is almost a total of two years.              They figured that if once a year had passed if they had heard no bad news had been reported that they would send a second group to replace them.  If there was life found on the planet they were  to make friends with them and make it a good will mission.  If the dwellers of Mars did not want to be  ally's with earth, then the dwellers of earth were to leave immediately.  At which times General Bigfoot said, "Why not gather some water and minerals from Mar...

                        Doctor Stroker, a wise man in his mid-thirties had just assigned his world history class the assignment over the four-day weekend to choose a historical figure and write about them.  So, Damean Dracul asked if he could do his report on Count Dracula.  Mister Stroker scratched the back of his head, and then looked at the twenty something year old student (with chalk white skin, emerald, green eyes,  wearing a bloody ruby red ring, with a long cape about him) and said, "Well he was part of the  Romanian history, so knock your socks off."                      To that Damian just gave a wicked little smile for his lineage went back to the original  Count Dracula, of whom so many stories had been spun.  Damean also knew he had to document his  cases.  For just saying that you were an heir of Count Dracula was not en...

                                 While my birth certificate says that I was born in the Bloomington hospital in Bloomington, Indiana, it is also true that the first six years of my life was in Martinsville, Indiana.  That is before moving north where I would spend the next six years of my life in Indianapolis, Indiana.   It was there that I went to a church in Speedway that had over one hundred people in it. If we look back  into history of that small congregation, you would find that several men in the congregation that met at Martinsville came up to help in building the congregation in Speedway, and one of those men was my Grandfather.                                   It was at that congregation of over one hundred people that I received the Spirit of  the Lord and was baptized.  Th...