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College Survival Guide

College can be a fun, exciting, and adventurous time; however, it can also have its scary moments as well. You will inevitably get lost around campus, be unprepared for a pop quiz, and have issues with your roommate – but it doesn’t have to always be that way. Here are a few tips to help you get your college journey started on the right track. Network Even before you start classes, try to find someone you know that is older and also attends your college. A mentor is a priceless thing to have – they can inform you on what […]

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A Promise of Life That Delivered Death

Oh, how the cunning serpent slithered his way into the hearts of Adam and Eve! He made a promise of life, to “be like God,” but he could not deliver on his promise (See Genesis 3:2-8). The life the devil promised lead only to death . . . it always has and it always will. Adam and Eve were made in the image of God; they were his image-bearers. But evidently they were not satisfied with being made in the image of God; they wanted to be God. They traded the worship of the Creator for the worship of the […]

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Young Earth – Part 2

Question: What do the fossils and rocks really say about the origins of the world? This month, we will look at the second of a three part series dealing with the topic of the young Earth and the evidences for Young Earth Creationism found in the rocks and fossils. One of the most important underlying principles for evolution is that there was a gradual change that took place very slowly over long periods of time. If this is true, it should be seen in the way rocks and fossils were laid down. This is where the controversy begins. Both young […]

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Forecasting Faith

We all understand the concept of weather forecasting, which is a prediction meteorologists make about what the weather will be on the basis of correlated atmospheric observations. They study and analyze all available pertinent data and make an educated guess about what is most likely to occur. This month, I would like to share a word of encouragement—not about weather forecasting, but rather “faith forecasting” and two different types of faith. Fair weather faith This faith is strong when the sky is blue, the clouds are fleecy, and the sun is brightly shining. Under these balmy conditions, there is barely […]

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Young Earth

What evidence is there that the earth is thousands of years old rather than millions? Part 1 If you hear and see the same thing over and over again, you are in the process of being “brainwashed.” Webster’s dictionary gives the definition as, “A forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social, or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas.” As Adolph Hitler, who took the lives of 11 million innocent people using this technique, stated, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” The old […]

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The Age of Social Media

According to the Global Web Index 2013 study, there are currently over 500 million registered Twitter accounts and 359 million monthly active Google users. The stats go on and on compiling information from Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and more. One can only conclude that it’s working. If the goal was to connect us, technology has certainly exceeded its goal. We can virtually, all day long, check in on multiple sites with each other on any topic we choose. How we’re feeling, what we’re eating, what we’re photographing, who we’re angry with, who we’re in love with…it’s a bit like Kramer […]

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Critical Comparisons

The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector teaches us what true humility is. To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men — robbers, evildoers, adulterers — or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ ”But the tax collector stood […]

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Tools of Gossip

Parties and picnics are a huge part of summer where we gather with friends and family for hamburgers and hotdogs, potato salad and coleslaw, watermelon and popsicles. In the midst of all this socializing, gossip seeps in virtually unnoticed. Constant exposure has deadened our sensitivity to its soiling effect. We have set a place for gossip at our table, and the table cloth has become dingy. The silverware is set neatly around a plate piled high with gossip. The knife “A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret” (Proverbs 11:13, NIV). Gossip is a knife that […]

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Graven Images

“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God” (Exodus 20:4-5a). When we read the second commandment in the year 2013, we may have a tendency to think this word was for a primitive people who made graven images of wood, stone and gold. But if we think this is the limit of idolatry, we will miss our portion in it! Graven Images […]

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How God Saved Our Lives

My passion and purpose as a practicing chiropractic doctor for the past twenty years has always been to share healing art with as many people as I can and as often as I can. This was reinforced a few months ago after I got done speaking at a local church about what I do. I was walking back to my car when God spoke five distinct statements to me. He said, 1) “I will never forsake you.” 2) “I will never harm you.” 3) “I will never injure you.” 4) “I am not done using you.” 5) “There many more […]

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