February 2012
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God's Grace for Those Saved as Children
I was lolly-gagging through my Facebook feed and saw an old friend had posted a status which read, “By God’s grace, I’m not who I was…”
For now I’m willing to overlook the pointless, misused, emotionally-overdriven elipsis ending that statement for the truth embedded in it. This friend became a Christian when she was a small child. She wasn’t even...
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2 Items Per Month
tomandandrew:
A: Every now and then, you need to give yourself a little fiscal gut-check. I do this every couple of months by logging into Mint, organizing all of my purchases, then eating only rice and beans for a week as punishment for spending so much money. Looking at the last year, I was pretty surprised at how much money I spend on clothes on a monthly basis. I’ve built up a good base...
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Joy, No Matter What
The first words of the model prayer are “Our Father in Heaven.” Even that much is loaded: “our” - God is father of us all, which tears down all socio-economic barriers; “Father” - he knows what’s best for us; “in Heaven” - he is best able to supply our needs. This is why I can still be perfectly happy on Valentine’s Day.
I’ve made...
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Jurassic cricket's song recreated →
infoneer-pulse:
Night-time in the Jurassic forest was punctuated by the unmistakable sound of chirping bush crickets.
This is according to scientists who have reconstructed the song of a cricket that chirped 165 million years ago.
A remarkably complete fossil of the prehistoric insect enabled the team to see the structures in its wings that rubbed together to make the sound.
» via BBC
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