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Theunis Wessels had just one thing on his mind. He was mowing his lawn while his wife was warning him about the massive tornado swirling in the background. Nothing was going to keep Wessels from completing his planned labor. He explained that he was keeping an eye on the tornado. After he finished the…

New York City orthopedic surgeon Claudette M. Lajam repeats the message of James 1:8 when she says, “You can’t really pay attention to more than one thing at a time”. Dr. Lajam has treated many injuries caused by people trying to walk while using their smart phones. An Ohio State University study found…

Magdalena is a tortoise hatched in Zilina, Slovakia. Magdalena is actually two tortoises, Magda and Lena, at least they are two heads on one tortoise. Each head has its own brain and nerve system that causes quite a problem. It is a tortoise divided against itself. “The second head sometimes doesn’t…

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways... Former President Ronald Reagan once had an aunt who took him to a cobbler for a pair of new shoes. The cobbler asked young Reagan, "Do you want square toes or round toes?" Unable to decide, Reagan didn't answer, so the cobbler gave him a few days. Several…

(AP) DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. - On a chilly Easter night, two days after his son and four of his fellow soldiers were killed in Iraq, David Pautsch watched their remains arrive on a jumbo jet during a somber, half-hour ceremony. "You see these five caskets, flag-draped, it's sobering beyond belief,"…

In October, 1935, the African nation of Ethiopia was occupied by the fascist forces of Benito Mussolini. Ethiopia, traditionally a Coptic Christian culture, had over the centuries endured the brutal tyranny of Islam and other oppressors, and were now faced with another trial of significance. Their much…

Shortly after I became a Christ follower an older man challenged me to find key verses in the Bible that might speak to specific situations that I would find myself in through the course of a normal day. After identifying those critical verses and linking them to the challenges that may come my way,…

Young people often grimace when they hear the word "test". To them, it means long hours of memorizing information that they feel is pretty worthless in real life. The benefit of getting an A or a B doesn't weigh as heavily in their minds as the sacrifice of time and effort in study. In their minds, it's…

A Central Florida conservation group, while incubating milk snake eggs, discovered one milk snake with two heads. It only has one body, but about 3 inches from the front end, the snake branches into two heads. Biologist Daniel parker said the snake has two brains, which command a single body. They will…

1. Feeding on the Word -- DAILY Nutrition A healthy baby has a healthy appetite. If you have truly been "born" of the Spirit of God, you will have a healthy appetite. The Bible says, "As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby," (1 Peter 2:2). Feed yourself every day…

WISDOM From San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge, past the sheer cliffs of Big Sur to the sun-drenched beaches of Southern California, the views along the 644 miles of Highway 1 are breathtaking. The views of the Pacific crashing against the shore compete with the rugged beauty of the mountains, forests…

FAITH The world is looking for a safe place to put their faith. Greed, power, the love of money and doubt destroy lives. The resulting hurt keeps people from trusting each other, and more importantly from trusting in God. The motion picture, “Miracle on 34th Street is a call to come back to a simple…

ETHICS/WISDOM On a high school religion test, Jason Torres once tackled a potential ethical dilemma that asked, "Can you harm an unborn child in order to save its mother?" That situation was hypothetical, but now Torres is facing a real life ethical dilemma. His wife Susan lost consciousness when an…

Authorized King James Version From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "King James Version" redirects here. For other uses, see King James Version (disambiguation). Authorized Version The title page to the 1611 first edition of the Authorized Version Bible by Cornelius Boel shows…

Preaching the Book God Wrote, Part 1 John MacArthur We believe in biblical inerrancy. So what? How does the truth of biblical inerrancy and the authority of God's written revelation affect what we preach and how we minister? There's little point in defending the inerrancy of Scripture if we're unwilling…

James 1:2-4 2 My family once lived next door to a woman in her eighties who was admittedly crusty and made a life out of being just a touch out-of-sorts about most things. It was her "gig," and we loved her for it. She claimed that her daily gin and cigarettes kept her fresh! Her sister, on the other…

At offering time introduce Highlights hidden picture What is the point? Sometimes the thing we are looking for is right in front of our faces. That was certainly the case in Acts 12. Back in Acts 7 we saw the first Christian martyr, Stephen. And then in Acts 8 & 9 we saw that a great persecution arose…

Question: What is prayer? Answer: Prayer is an offering up our desires to God (Psalm 62:8), by the assistance of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26), for things agreeable to his will (1 John 5:14; Romans 8:27), in the name of Christ (John 16:23), believing (Matthew 21:22; James 1:6), with confession of our…

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A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

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