Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are smaller than a millimeter, live in water, and can endure all kinds of harsh environments. A recent research project found that asteroid impacts and nearby supernovae and gamma-ray bursts would wreck humanity but leave tardigrades unscathed. Does this mean we should expect to...
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Holy Living is Not an Accident
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. –Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758, American...
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The Art of Folding
“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). As a child in the 60s, going for a meal at my Godmother’s house was a fascinating experience. In those days, many families would get out the best dinnerware for such occasions, and would...
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Is This Any Way To Do Business?
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36) Evolutionary scientists tell us that mutations were central to the production of the great variety of creatures on earth today from the first living...
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More About Amazing Aspirin
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.” (Psalm 147:3) A few years ago we aired a “Creation Moments” program about how plants seem to have pain and alarm responses similar to humans and animals. Of course, we don’t know if plants...
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Florida Pastor Preaches Longest Sermon Ever
In November 2014 there was a new Guinness World Record for the longest speech; not surprisingly, it was a sermon. Pastor Zach Zehnder of Mount Dora, Florida preached for two days, five hours, and eighteen minutes. Taking only rare bathroom breaks and with at least...
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Learn of God’s Loving Provision
“But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will explain to you” (Job 12:7-8). A number...
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Eating Snail Mucus for God
The gospel and religion are not synonyms. The things people preach and practice in religion can be crazy, even if they’re very interesting. Charles Stewart, the leader of a Florida religious sect, pressures followers to drink the mucus of giant African snails as part of...
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Maharashtra [India] Law is a Turning Point for Dalit Christians
After the 2016 Maharashtra (India) Prohibition of People from Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act received presidential assent, the state became the first in the country to adopt a law that seeks to enforce strict rules of coexistence among members of different castes. The Global Council of Indian Christians...
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What Does the Milky Way Say About Evolution?
“Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!” (Job 22:12) When we look at the size of the universe, it sometimes becomes easier to see evolution as credible. After all, when we see galaxies...
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