President Obama No one should have to worry that they will go without health care.
Glen Beck We have to teach our children the things that have been lost.
My wife and I have an arranged marriage. Not arranged in the traditional sense by well intentioned parents who betrothed us as children, but arranged by each other in the aftermath of failed relationships. Hers irreparably broken by her first husband’s unrepentant infidelity and mine a crushed heart in the aftermath of a long distance [...]
I have been raising funds for our ministry during the “Great Recession”. We were on a 12 day trip out west to meet with interested friends and churches last September when the stock market crashed and the economic collapse fully revealed itself. Did I mention that our ministry involves a move to the Middle East [...]
But seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matt. 6:33
We have American friends who have lived in the Middle East for many years. In fact, their kids were born there. As our friends were preparing to bring their children to the United States for the first [...]
“I am so glad you are going”. We were at church and I was speaking with James, a combat marine who was standing tall in his dress blue uniform. He was home on leave after completing a tour of duty in Iraq and he was getting ready to go back. I am sure similar statements [...]
Twilight is a word that often evokes pleasant memories of beautiful sunsets and peaceful evenings. One definition:the transitional “light from the sky between sunset and full night (Webster’s Dictionary).
The book “Twilight” and it’s movie version of the latest spin on vampire mythology have become a cultural phenomenon in recent months. When the movie came out [...]
“Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?” Isaac Watts
Have you ever been haunted? I’m not talking about ghosts, I’m referring to words or a phrase that sticks with you, sometimes for years. It pops up like those annoying [...]
I was baptized as an infant, confirmed at 14 and I got saved at age 52! Norm grinned widely as he made this declaration. We were visitors to Norm’s church and we were discussing an anomaly we had both experienced in the American church. We had noticed that there are religious people and there are [...]
“Lord send us anywhere to do anything.” It was a prayer. My wife and I prayed this together as we started out on a journey that is leading us to a part of the world where our sanity has been questioned for even considering the possibility of going there.
We are moving to the Middle [...]
Recent research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham studied a group of women who lost an average of 26 lbs over several weeks using diet only for some, diet and aerobic exercise (walking) for some, and diet with resistance training exercise for others in the group.
Those who lost weight but performed no exercise and [...]
Ever since the mid 80’s when we began to realize that the whole running craze was resulting in a high incidence of injury, doctors have prescribed walking as the exercise of choice for their mature adult patients. Walking is fairly easy on the body. It is convenient. The chance of injury is low. It makes [...]
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