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Our Place In This World
Our place in this world is God’s gift to us. His guidance will lead to fulfilling relationships and a beneficial unity that will strengthen any community. Help the needy, heal the sick, visit the isolated. When those in need are helped, society is healthier. When they aren’t helped, crime rises, violence spreads, hospitals fill, services are burdened and lives are…
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The Armor of God
Ephesians 6:10-20 “10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual…
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Christ-Influenced Artists
Who are “Christ-influenced” artists? These can be musical artists that profess to be followers of Christ and produce quality musical material that is not always strictly gospel or worship, but believers can still appreciate it. Growing up as a teenager influenced by the Christian alternative music scene and subculture, there was a constant debate as to what was really “Christian…
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Under the Influence
To understand the dangers of being affected by substances from hallucinogens to simple stimulants like caffeine, I think an appreciation must be developed for the body’s natural development and maturity. Using substances to alter our minds and certain moods, we can have the danger of inhibiting us from maturing into better people. If we simply feel bored, uncomfortable, confused or…
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The Problem With Gambling
To understand why gambling is frowned upon by many people, one must first understand and appreciate the concept of making an honest living. Being financially compensated for providing a beneficial service or product to the world is a very fulfilling way to be productive, and to the honest person it makes sense. As a practice of good virtue, each person…
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Save Yourself!
Sexual immorality is rampant these days. Pornography, casual sex and all forms of sexual deviancy are a misuse of God’s amazing gift to us. All people have been born through sex between a man and a woman, and ideally those parents raise the person they created to be successful in life, teaching the benefits of morality and the satisfaction of…
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Motion – The Fourth Spatial Dimension: Part II
The common representation of a four-dimensional object is the tesseract. Continuing with the symmetrical representation of dimension from the point to the line to the square to the cube, I propose that a tesseract is a symmetrical representation of a cube’s fourth spatial dimension’s path of motion as each part of it is changed in an equal manner by change…
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Time – A Measure of Duration
People have recently started to ask, “does time exist?” My response is “yes, of course,” as a method of measuring any moment. Duration is the history of the constantly existing moment known as the present. We cannot escape the present. We can remember the past and conceptualize the future, but we always live in what we call “now.” Time is…
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Laws of Motion
Newton’s laws of motion all describe its interaction with force. Here are some principles that strictly deal only with motion (movement/change) in relation to space and time. Motion is change in spatial occupancy. Objects move by change in position, rotation or formation. Motion occurs toward or anywhere in between six directions in relation to an object/observer which are the two…
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Motion – The Fourth Spatial Dimension
What are the properties of motion? It is movement in space. An object can change its position in relation to another object by a change in distance or rotation on its axis. An object can move in relation to itself through the transformation of its shape by distortion. Motion is a property of physical reality that is measured by the…
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A Response to the Poincare Conjecture
A Response to the Poincare Conjecture as Described in “Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction” by Timothy Gowers “Is there some easy way of telling, by looking at a three-dimensional atlas, whether the manifold it represents is the three-dimensional surface of a four-dimensional sphere?” The fourth spatial dimension is movement. A static three-dimensional model of the solar system is a three-dimensional…
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Living For Eternity
Dedicated to Queen Elisabeth II and my grandmother. The thought of living forever changes my outlook on life in a very positive way. Though my time on Earth is limited, I’ve felt often as a comfort of love from God that my soul will live on into eternity. I don’t know fully what that will be like, but it inspires…