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In March of 2017 Netflix began a series named 13 Reasons Why. Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health claim that it is a show that glorifies suicide. The researchers found a 28.9 percent increase in suicide deaths among Americans ages 10-17 in the month after the debut of the show and…

Hospice is a ministry of death. Hospice workers care for patients in their last days of life. They focus on symptom relief and giving quality to the patient’s last days. In her new book, With the End in Mind (Little, Brown, 2018) British physician Kathryn Mannix gently introduces readers to hospice.…

“In Europe, ‘going to Switzerland’ has become a euphemism for assisted suicide.” In Switzerland, visitors have access to medically assisted suicide with the only limit being that it cannot be carried out for self gain. Independent companies in and around Zurich provide death assistance for a membership…

Great Britain is debating the legalization of Euthanasia. Professor Theo Boer of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, once a prominent supporter of euthanasia, has changed his mind after seeing its implementation in the Netherlands. He thought the practice would be rare, used only as a last resort.…

Dan Janssen lives on a daily diet of cheese pizza, and has for the past 25 years. Janssen, now 38, ate your average meat and potatoes diet until he was 14 when he became a vegetarian, alas, he found out he didn’t like vegetables. That’s when he stumbled across the cheese pizza diet, and he’s been eating…

Kylie Bisutil is a beautiful young woman who recently won Victoria’s Secret Model Search. She modeled the vast array of lingerie in the Victoria’s Secret Catalog. She gave up her job modeling the lingerie and when asked why, she replied, “My body should only be for my husband.” Miss Bisutil still models…

How much oil does it take to close a beach? “Crisis on the Gulf Coast” screams the headline in USA Today. Another article talks about the devastating effects the oil spill has had on beachfront vacation communities. It sounds like there is a sheet of oil covering the coast from Texas to Florida. However,…

In his book, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Malcolm Gladwell writes, “The dogs that bite people are, in many cases, socially isolated because their owners are socially isolated, and they are vicious because they have owners who want a vicious dog. The junkyard German shepherd — which looks as…

In his book, Satisfy your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, “Some of us keep unduly busy to boost our sagging egos, to ‘prove’ our worth, or to avoid aspects of our selves to painful to confront.” --Satisfy your Soul, 125. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Our worth is not determined by what we do, but by whose…

The story is told of an American tourist in Paris who picked up an amber necklace in a trinket shop. When he arrived at New York and went through customs he was shocked at the high duty he had to pay for the necklace. So when he came home, he spoke with a jeweler and the jeweler told him he would give…

The story is told of an American tourist in Paris who picked up an amber necklace in a trinket shop. When he arrived at New York and went through customs he was shocked at the high duty he had to pay for the necklace. So when he came home, he spoke with a jeweler and the jeweler told him he would give…

There’s a story about two brothers who had terrorized the small town where they lived for decades. They were unfaithful to their wives, abusive to their children, and dishonest in business. They were loud, boisterous and just plain rude to nearly everyone. One day, out of the clear blue, the younger…

The New Testament word for Lord is the Greek word kurios. The word was used in several ways in the ancient world. In its most common usage it functioned as a polite word for sir. (Spanish speaking people and Portuguese speaking people use the term senor to refer to the Lord. You will hear them say, “Senor”…

SECTION OUTLINE FOURTEEN (ROMANS 14) Paul discusses the believer’s responsibilities toward those Christians who are weak in the faith. I. No Believer Should Be Judged by Another Believer Down Here (14:1–8). A. We are not to criticize others’ legalism (14:1–8). 1. The rules (14:1–6) a. Don’t judge in…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

The Stewordship of Money, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- m^~ n--------------- /----- I he use of money has a great deal to say about the moral condition of the one who uses it. Contemporary Christians often make denunications of wealth and the wealthy, on the…