When was the last time you were at your lowest point? Today? Yesterday? Or maybe even now? Like a carousel, there are times in our life when all we can do is go up and down on the ride as the world’s scenery changes and passes by. Sometimes we take ...
Read More »Let’s Be Rational: A Look at the Adolescent Brain
For every parent who’s raising a teen, the occasional shaking of the head in confusion and frustration is understood. What could they be thinking? Why did they make that decision? Didn’t they consider the consequences they would face? But the adolescent brain is especially vulnerable to an inability to think ...
Read More »Caterpillar Soup and Nests of Thorns
Before a caterpillar can become a beautiful butterfly it must spin a cocoon around itself, digesting itself into a “soup,” leaving behind special cells that will become its new eyes, antennae, and even its colorful wings. Before an eaglet can sore majestically, its mother must tear apart the only ...
Read More »Overcome Lucifer’s World
We have free will. Long before humans were created, God had created the heavenlies where the angels live. The highest-ranking angel was named Lucifer, and Lucifer had been endowed with great intelligence and musical ability. God made him like a god (Isaiah 14:12). Like us, God created Lucifer and his ...
Read More »From Curiosity to Destruction: The Way of Sin
The story goes that an unwelcome visitor found central Illinois in the 1840’s in the form of cholera, one of the most deadly diseases of the time. It traveled on the ferry, arriving inside one very sick man. The epidemic that ensued started with another man’s curiosity. He knew ...
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