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Ecclesiastes 4:4 “Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit..” In 1637 Rene Descartes published a ground-breaking treatise on optics. His breakthro...

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1 Timothy 4:12 “Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” Teenagers were invented in the 1950s, so they say. Strangely enough, there is a lot of truth ...

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Acts 17:2 “And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,” The late Stephen J. Gould once commented that “biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1850, but they in...

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2 Timothy 4:2 “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.” The message “Read, Mark, Learn, and Inwardly Digest” was cast in iron above the door of the public library in Stalyb...

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Acts 17:26-27 “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after hi...

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James 1:27 “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” What makes a hero? Is it a particular character trait? Are some personali...

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Revelation 22:3a “And there shall be no more curse:” Without attempting to answer all the details of the book of Revelation, it is surely true that it looks forward to the end of this present world and a time when God makes a new heaven and a new eart...

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Mark 1:31 “ And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.” Malaria is caused by infection by parasites called plasmodia. It is still a serious disease, killing over o...

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James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” A commercial on British Independent TV in the 1970s for a brand of chocolates showed...

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Psalm 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?” Dutch researchers have concluded that you can indeed eat your way to a better mood. It’s not how much you eat...

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