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Greater than Gold
On March 18, 2013 it was my honor to return to Dallas, TX. Just last summer, I was invited to spend 12 glorious days in London, England with Lay Witnesses For Christ as Evangelism Chairman [...]
CARRYING GREATNESS
Last Friday, November 16, my bride, Ruth celebrated her birthday and ironically it was the day Steven Spielberg's movie "LINCOLN" was released. It was wonderful! I wrote two posts on FB earlier last week and [...]
2012 Olympics – London, England
It was my high honor to spend 12 glorious days in London for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games with LWFCI. A year ago in March (2011) I was one of two keynote speakers at the [...]
PRESIDENTIAL moments
Today, (June 12) President George H.W. Bush turned 88 years young. Ironically, the picture shown is of President Bush with my father, Frank Shelton, Sr taken in January 1991 at the United States Capitol. It [...]
THE ASSIST
Back in October 2011, I called one of my childhood heroes and dear friend, MEADOWLARK LEMON. He answered the cell in his rich, deep voice and said: "Brother Frank!" It's a fact: "The Clown Prince [...]
MLK Tribute: DARE TO DREAM
Today, we honor Dr King. His speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in my opinion was one of the greatest of all time. Jesus, with the Sermon on the Mount, President Lincoln at [...]
Lessons Learned from PETE ROSE
Recently, my good buddy, Jimmy Griggs in Nashville, TN contacted me and asked if I wanted to meet baseball great, PETE ROSE. Without missing a beat I said "sure." Speaking comes naturally to me but [...]
WORDS ARE WONDERFUL
We should agree by now that the quote we learned as kids: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" are false. Actually, sometimes we would be fortunate to have [...]