http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/11/05/man-killed-by-his-tapeworm-cancer/75207608/ It was a startling article that appeared in many newspapers, and online websites this past week about a man who passed away from cancer, but his death was unique in the fact that the cancerous tumors in his body, when biopsied, did not contain his DNA, but instead bore the DNA of a tapeworm […]
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Dear Friend, Please forgive me, I have been thinking a lot on our discussion, and there are some things I just can’t “shake”. You dug in your heels somewhere…I guess I don’t really know when, and ended your search for truth. Maybe it was when you looked around you and saw people who claimed to know
I am reading about persecuted people around the world both past and present. Through tear-filled eyes, I am looking at the most anathema of tortures inflicted on the most vulnerable of people, and I can barely take it in. I know that it has been said “What comes out of you in persecution is what
They’re back. The silence of winter has been broken by the melodies of songbirds. The bleakness of long dark days, that wane into long dark cold nights has been interrupted–even changed. From the boughs of spruce trees and the barren limbs of alders and cottonwood come the melodic tones of the songbirds, who having completed
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Dear Sons, I am convinced more and more that the rise of Atheism in our country rides on the noticeable loss of integrity in humanity. It is becoming harder and harder to find men and women of character who keep their word, honor their commitments, or even make commitments. Relationships are more disposable than the iPhone,
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“In an alternate universe, your life would be perfect, God would be easier to see, and choices would be easier to make.” The problem: You don’t live in an alternate universe. You have to make your decisions now, right where you live, with the information you have been given, and with the knowledge you are
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Remember your dreams? Not the ones that came as you slept at night, but the ones that made you feel fully alive when you were awake? Do you remember the possibilities, the adventure, the colors, patterns, ideas, and outcomes you imagined? Do you remember the thrill of sharing those dreams with others, and the excitement
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It seems to me in this day and age that even if your sins and mine were thrown into the Sea of Forgetfulness, CNN and Fox News would find a way to fish them out, Facebook and Twitter would gladly display them, and even our dearest friends would “unfriend” us on social media…until their sin
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You know that little circle in your mind where your thoughts go round and round, and they all revolve around something negative about yourself or others? Yeah, that little circle. Don’t go there. Haven’t you ever read about how an enemy besieges a city? He circles it–over and over. Calling out threats, and insulting those
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Surfing the internet for information yields some very interesting discoveries. I find it more and more difficult to find trustworthy information. Everyone has an opinion, and now, thanks to social media, your opinion can be known by thousands upon thousands of people in just a few seconds. Opinions are a dime a dozen, facts are