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The prevalent theory about planets is that they neatly spin through space chained to their suns. Now scientist suspect that there may be many free-floating planets roaming the galaxy. Astronomers now say they think they have detected a roaming planet roughly the size of Earth. The planet was discovered…

Between November 2019 and February 2020, scientists watching the distant star Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetle juice) believed they were observing the beginning of the final days of the red supergiant star. The star dimmed dramatically, and astronomers thought the massive sun was about to explode and become…

The social isolation and quarantine brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred extraordinary feats of perseverance. Tobias Weller a 9-year-old autistic boy with cerebral palsy earned $100,000 by completing a marathon on his walker. He walked on the street in front of his house for 70 days cheered…

A 26-year-old man from North Dakota signed up to run a half-marathon. Mike Kohler was groggy from his early wake-up call and got in with the wrong group of runners at the Sanford Fargo Marathon. He missed the instructions and the directions he received were for the full marathon. He said he realized…

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest starts in the sky. It forms the right shoulder of the constellation Orion and is 650 light years from Earth. It is a large star, about 15 times more massive than our sun. Astronomers tell us that Betelgeuse is dying. The ninth brightest star in the sky in October has…

Gavin Ashenden, a former priest, professor, and chaplain to the Queen, claims that feminism rather than the New Testament has formed the mind-set of most within the Church of England. He believes that it is time for Christians to make a commitment to the New Testament, or succumb to the spirit of the…

Japan and China are exploring a new source of fuel hidden in the world’s oceans that supply enough power to meet global demand for hundreds of years. The fuel, known as “combustible ice,” is technically called methane hydrate, a frozen mixture of water and concentrated natural gas. The Chinese news agency…

Charles C. Ryrie, longtime professor of systematic theology at Dallas Theological Seminary died at the age of 90. Ryrie’s books included Basic Theology and a Study Bible that sold 2.5 million copies in several languages. Ryrie once wrote, “The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest…

Gary Alexander has lived in the small town of Wingo, Kentucky all of his life. He remembers hearing the stories about how several downtown buildings were built in the late 1890s. More than one hundred years later, Alexander was hired to demolish the buildings and reuse some of the materials. When the…

In ancient Egypt common people, not able to afford the gold used by pharaohs, used papyrus, paint, and glue to make the masks for their mummies. Papyrus too, was expensive, causing them to reuse sheets that had once been used for writing. Recently scientists developed a method to remove the glue of mummy…

On the outskirts of Paris, an underground vault holds a platinum cylinder known as Le Grand K. This carefully guarded object sits under three glass domes and three different people have three different keys that are all needed to open the vault. Since 1889 this object has been the standard for the Kilogram.…

“History teaches us about the cyclic rise and fall of civilizations, which, as they become more complex and interconnected, also become more vulnerable to collapse. The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.” –Camille Paglia We can think as highly of ourselves, our…

NASA launched The Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1977 to take photos of Jupiter and Saturn. Traveling through space at 38,000 mph it has taken until 2013 to reach interstellar space, some 11.66 billion miles from the Sun. Every new discovery reminds me of the greatness of our God and when I consider that Voyager…

A Scottish angler set a new world record when he pulled a 98-year-old message in a bottle from the waters off the northern coast of Scotland. Authorities say the bottle that Andrew Leaper caught in his net is the oldest such message ever recovered, beating the previous record by five years. The bottle…

Astronomers examining the color of the Milky Way Galaxy have found that it has a very appropriate name. Researchers have wondered what our home galaxy looks like from the outside, but have found the task a challenge because earth is inside it. Speaking at the 219th American Astronomical Society meeting,…

I recently read a moving story that David Jeremiah wrote about the founder of World Vision, the international Christian relief agency. Bob Pierce had advanced leukemia, but he went to visit a colleague in Indonesia before he died. As they were walking through a small village, they came upon a young girl…

In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “Everything we own owns us. We must maintain it, paint it, play with it, build space in our house to put it, and then work to pay it off.” --Margin, Kindle Loc. 1151-52 Illustration by…

A new survey taken in Great Britain has found that a nation known for their ability to wait in line may be losing some of their patience. The results show the average British adult is now only able to stand in line for 10 minutes and 42 seconds before their tempers start to flare. The survey also found…

When wanting to faint after years of fighting against slave trade William Wilberforce leaned upon the Lord for his strength. On his forty-first birthday, as rededicated himself to his calling, he prayed, “Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish…

William Wilberforce displayed extraordinary endurance. He was defeated regularly in his battle to free England of slave trade. The repeated defeats of his plans did not defeat him. His adversaries complained that, “Wilberforce jumped up whenever they knocked him down.” One said, “It is necessary to watch…

GOD’S WORD Army Captain Jeff Ryals serves as an intelligence officer with the 3rd Squadron, 7th Calvary Regiment of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. While he served in Iraq, he carried a family heirloom and a symbol of his faith with him in his shirt pocket. Ryals carried a small steel-covered Bible…

Psalm 8 Relational Spirituality Palm 8:3-4 When I consider Your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what is man that you take thought of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Wrote the words only a few thousand starts were visible to the unaided…

When Theodore Roosevelt went camping with his friend, naturalist William Beebe, they used to sit under the open sky at night and search for a tiny blob of light near the constellation Pegasus and chant together, “That is the Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a…

This is a excerpt from an unpublished book by Brad Berglund. It imagines what the wise men would have encountered when they arrived at Bethlehem. The account is purely fictional, but it draws upon the promises that filled the hearts of all who believed when Jesus was born. Enjoy! That night, the Wise…

I remember an old story about a little boy who was out helping dad with the yard work. Dad asked him to pick up the rocks in a certain area of the yard. Dad looked over and saw him struggling to pull up a huge rock buried in the dirt. The little boy struggled and struggled while Dad watched. Finally,…