Yes, a horse, a dog, a duck …… all bought into hospitals ……
The New Daily has revealed that science has verified that the pet dog is medicinal and now having this revealed will surely see a massive influx of puppies for Christmas.
The articles says that the latest from Sweden is a reliable new study that suggests dogs protect children from asthma. The beloved canine may motivate us to exercise, improve our mental state, strengthen our bonds with other people and lower our risk of heart disease.
We ve known for years that pets can be a very valuable source of social support. The unconditional love from an animal is something they may not be available from elsewhere in their lives. Dogs are indeed good medicine.
Essential to Evangelicalism
These words do not have one single reference and specific meaning, these are lucid and rounded and flowing and has in them an abundance of joy and Christian charity.
Take for example
Cross (Crucifixion) - there are libraries full of wonderful books that give root and branch to the depths and splendour of the fullness and richness of the Cross of Christ.
Rock - the Psalms speak of the Rock which endures, the Rock as of the Lord, the Rock which is steady, and Jesus in his parable speaks of the foundation rock and the corner stone.
It is frightening - a political call for a strong man.
BBC announced Germany has registered 964,574 new asylum-seekers in the first 11 months of 2012, putting it on course for more than a million in 2015. Documents leaked suggested the government was privately anticipating the arrival of up to 1.5 million by 2021.
Chancellor Angela Merkel s decision to welcome Syrian refugees has won her plaudits in some quarters but sparked a backlash in others, with some senior ministers openly questioning the approach.
This comes at the very time when Australia s former Prime Minister Tony Abbott in 2014 called upon Muslims to engage in a reformation and many in Germany have already expressed their fears that a significant majority of these asylum-seekers will choose ‘not to assimilate’.
Photo - Calm waters
Nelson Cook who established Coaches of Influence (COIN) 30 years ago in Los Angeles USA writes a monthly letter to the many coaches at professional, college and high school levels and the current correspondence touches the spot.
It has been my privilege since 1984 to have been hosted innumerable times by Nelson Cook in my years in sport ministry, the most recent was in 2009 where I addressed coaches over breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
In a recent Nelson Cook newsletter to his coaches he wrote:
Reaching with the Gospel
It is my opinion that the best evangelistic center in the greater metropolitan Boston area is NOT a church. It is a filling station in Arlington. It was owned and operated by a man named Bob who caught the vision early in his life that his vocation and his calling were to be welded together. As time passed, his station became known as the place to go for gas, new tires, or other car service.
Photo - 2020 Australian Basil Sellers Award – Cartia Moore from the Sunshine Coast
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18-30 years is the age bracket. Each young writer has their own editor to help them through the process.
The young people write once every 5 weeks - it is very simple, there are 5 weeks in each Cycle. There are 10 Cycles a year.
Comment writing
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