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He Holds All Things Together

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Oh well, I had a little bit of an accident in  the workshop today. I was filing and de-burring my project, and I was getting a little impatient. It all turned catastrophic in less than a second. I plunged my thumb into sharp edge of the workpiece. The crack is about 1.5cm long. The immediate response I had was pulling back my hand and writhed in pain. I didn't exactly feel the pain. It was all just numbness, which the sensation was delayed by almost a minute. The bleeding soon started. In less than a minute it flooded the gaps around the nails. I was rather a little excited to see all these happened in less than 3 minutes. Doesn't it fascinate you? I mean, the fact that your body's defence mechanism was almost instantaneously activated when something goes wrong with your body, it's fascinating. When that catastrophe happened, the warning signal was fired all the way up your nerves. But instead of going into your brain so that you would go through all the lo

Of Homosexuality, Of Morality and Of Love

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I've been reading on Mere Christianity written by the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis. I have been expecting this book to be highly theological and intellectual. But to my surprise, it was no doubt a wonderfully intellectual masterpiece, but it isn't at all theological. I guess, it was all logical. C. S. Lewis wasn't exactly a Christian most part of his life. In fact, he was pretty vocal being an atheist before his conversion. Yet the change that Christ brought upon his life was such an impact, and voila! Click on the image to download this ebook from ChurchLeaders.com for free. The website also provides many other helpful resources. Here's a part of what was written on the book, which I personally find it mind boggling, I had a change of mindset about gay marriages and most other sins: Before leaving the question of divorce, I should like to distinguish two things which are very often confused. The Christian conception of marriage is one: