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The world is tough enough to listen to all of the garbage and lies that get fed into your soul daily. Trash talk about why you didn’t wear the right pair of jeans or style your hair the only acceptable way. Rubbish words saying your muscles are not the right ...

It sounds like an imaginary malady in a soap opera, doesn’t it? But this stress-induced cardiomyopathy is a very real condition. First described in the 1990’s by Japanese physicians, it is also called takotsubo cardiomyopathy. A takotsubo pot is a fishing pot used to trap an octopus and has a ...

Remember the Disney movie,  Aladdin? Soon after the cunning thief had discovered the genie, Genie began listing the rules for Aladdin’s three wishes. “You can’t wish for more wishes!” I’d never thought of that, then as suddenly as the brilliance of it dawned on me, Genie declared such wishing out ...

Having grown up on a farm in the heart of Indiana, I know the importance of a fruitful yield from seeds planted.  It relates directly to the farmer’s future livelihood.  Whether it is an expansive field of corn, wheat, oats, or a backyard garden of green beans and tomatoes, or ...

“I wish Christians in the west understood their authority in Christ,” a friend from India said. His remark brought to mind the word “covenant.” Perhaps the west struggles with the idea of covenant because our greatest earthly covenant–marriage–is seldom fully understood or honored. We don’t comprehend, therefore, the covenant we have ...