We get personalized info on the web, personalized service at stores we frequent, personalized music lists on apps and iPods: why not get personalized medicine? George Church looks to do exactly that. Dr. Church has helped develop the automating of gene-sequencing, something that heralds great advances in the treatment of all manner of things in our… [Read more…]
February 14, 2012
Believe it or not, “[t]he early Methodist meetings were often led by lay preachers with very limited education. On one occasion, such a preacher took as his text Luke 19:21: ‘Lord, I feared thee, because thou art an austere man.’ “Not knowing the word austere, he thought that the text spoke of an oyster man. He… [Read more…]
February 10, 2012
Many days of my young life my dad would invite me to do things with him. Our “we projects” included many things from animals to auctions to engines to junk. I didn’t always get to do much work, though. I felt like I was just there like a nurse handing tools to a surgeon most the… [Read more…]
February 8, 2012
“Facts are stubborn things,” the John Adams character says to the jury while defending some English soldiers prior to the Revolutionary War. In the HBO movie John Adams, we find the main character in a courtroom trying to find the facts of what happened that particular night we now know as the Boston Massacre. Despite… [Read more…]
February 7, 2012
Yesterday, we heard about the Israelites not being able to serve God,they just couldn’t make the right choices. We also asked ourselves if we made all the right choices in our relationship with God. Do we think about showing up for God like we should? Well, what if we were really in need, and one… [Read more…]
February 6, 2012
Israel had an interesting go there in Exodus. From the palace to the plagues, from the first Passover to the Red Sea passage, Israel had its way made by the Lord. They weren’t even five (5) minutes out of the Red Sea when they had formed the “Back-to-Egypt Committee.” They whined for water – they got… [Read more…]
January 10, 2012
I once read a story about how Sadhu Sundar Singh and a companion were traveling through a pass high in the Himalayan Mountains. At one point they came across a body lying in the snow. Sundar Singh wished to stop and help the unfortunate man, but his companion refused, saying, “We shall lose our lives… [Read more…]
December 31, 2011
God's truth at the empty tomb should leave us thunderstruck every day.
December 30, 2011
God does not always do things that make much sense, but then again, he's God.
December 1, 2011
Christmas is a barefooted kind of place because it's holy.
February 15, 2012
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