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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cases of common sexually transmitted diseases have surged to “alarming” levels in the U.S. Rates of common STD’s increased last year for the first time in nearly a decade. “Young people are the most vulnerable,” the CDC’s Dr. Gail Bolan warns.…

Wu Hsia had an important decision to make. He and his girlfriend Rong Tsao had arranged to meet a former girlfriend, Jun Tang at a riverside park. Their intent was to tell the ex to stop trying to break them up. But Jun, trying to prove that Wu still loved her, jumped into the river and screamed for…

An electronics recycling center in California is looking for a woman who dropped off an old Apple computer that turned out to be a collector’s item. Workers found the Apple I computer inside a box of electronics that a woman had collected from her garage after her husband died. She did not ask for a…

In “Approved Life,” Joshua Saefkow writes, “In the 1951 children's classic, Alice in Wonderland, Alice asks Cheshire cat for advice when she comes to an intersection on the road. She said, ‘Cheshire, can you please tell me, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want…

Years ago, an unmarried college couple at Berkeley discovered they were expecting a child. Though they feared that this child could destroy the future they were planning, they decided to keep the child, and get married. Shortly thereafter Lance Cooper was born. Cooper is now a Georgia lawyer. It was…

The 2012 movie, The Act of Valor, stars a group of active duty Navy SEALS and is inspired by true events. In one of the scenes, the SEALS are in hot pursuit of suicidal terrorists on a mission to kill thousands of Americans. The soldiers are carrying the heavy weight of their commitments to their country,…

New research suggests marriage is becoming less common in the United States. The report showed that Americans are getting married less frequently and when they do marry, they are doing it later in life. The findings are similar to results in the United Kingdom where researchers found that only 48 percent…

In Developing Vision for Ministry in the 21st Century, Aubrey Malphurs says, “Ministry without vision is like a surgeon without scalpel, a cowboy who has lost his horse, a carpenter with a broken hammer. To attempt a ministry without clear, well-articulated vision is to invite stillbirth. Church and…

Kitam Hamm lives in a gang-infested community in Southern California. In the last four years, he has seen nine friends die because of gang violence. Playing football, even being a football star is not enough to keep young men from being involved in gang violence. Hamm has excelled both on the football…

Did you ever want to do something courageous? Is there some part of you that would like to accomplish something great? Would you like your loved ones to remember you as someone who accomplished something for the Lord, or for your fellow humans? What do you think about when you think of those kinds of…

Magdalena is a tortoise hatched in Zilina, Slovakia. Magdalena is actually two tortoises, Magda and Lena, at least they are two heads on one tortoise. Each head has its own brain and nerve system that causes quite a problem. It is a tortoise divided against itself. “The second head sometimes doesn’t…

After a Canadian couple became lost after following GPS instructions to a shorter more scenic route home, authorities are warning travelers in the Western United States not to rely solely on technology for navigation. in March 2011, Albert and Rita Chretien lost their way and were stuck in mud. Though…

The “Mythbusters” Television program, which airs on the Discovery Network examines urban legends, Internet myths, and other popular belief within the culture. Each week, the hosts of the program Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage test the myths using scientific methods and determine if they can be confirmed,…

A Central Florida conservation group, while incubating milk snake eggs, discovered one milk snake with two heads. It only has one body, but about 3 inches from the front end, the snake branches into two heads. Biologist Daniel parker said the snake has two brains, which command a single body. They will…

A restaurant in Tennessee recently received a note from a young man who wanted to clear his conscience. Silvia Delacerda, manager of the restaurant, said a man came and dropped off a letter. He said someone had asked him to bring it to them. Inside the envelope, Delacerda found $15 and a note explaining…

At 64 years old, Robert was a confirmed bachelor if there ever was one. He’d learned to be content with his situation and never thought he’d find love and get married. One summer evening in 1988 he was enjoying a moment of solitude, reflecting upon his upcoming retirement and praying about his future.…

A retired British couple escaped serious injury after the GPS navigation system in their car directed them to drive into a church. The couple was driving along a back road near the Austrian border when the navigation system told them to make an immediate right run where there was no road. The 76 year-old…

An unexpected defect turned a scheduled demolition into a near disaster. A 275-foot smokestack at an old Ohio power plant that was being demolished fell the wrong direction, sending spectators scrambling, knocking down 12,000-volt power lines, and damaging a building containing backup generators. There…

A retired British couple escaped serious injury after the GPS navigation system in their car directed them to drive into a church. The couple was driving along a back road near the Austrian border when the navigation system told them to make an immediate right run where there was no road. The 76 year-old…

In the book, God Knows My Name, Beth Redman explains how she and her husband received specific direction about a move they were considering. Redman says they were considering a move to Atlanta, and asked for a tangible answer, literally, “something we could hold in our hands.” Redman writes, “One night…

Something didn’t feel quite right to Joyce. She couldn’t put her finger on it, but she had a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach telling her to get out of Liberia, and to do it now. Kenneth and Joyce were planning to leave the country around the 15th of July in 1990 for a month of well-deserved R&R.…

Before the Hollywood icon, Dennis Hopper died; he made a series of TV commercials for Ameriprize Financial, aimed specifically at Baby Boomers. One commercial begins with Hopper standing at a crossroads and saying, “So here you are, a little confused. Did you think the road to retirement was an expressway?…

VISION In their book, Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda, Henry and Richard Blackaby write, “Vision is crucial for an organization. Its source is God’s revelation of his activity. God’s revelation can usually be stated as a promise and can be expressed through an image. When leaders…

In his book, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, Hans Finzel writes, “Vision is an effective leader’s chief preoccupation.” --Top Ten Mistakes, 201 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Jeff Langley Proverbs 29:18a (KJV) Where there is no vision, the people perish

FUTURE What if you looked into the future and caught a glimpse of yourself like you would be then? This is the premise of the television drama, Flash Forward. The whole world passes out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds during which they see themselves exactly seven months into the future. --World, October…