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5/31/06

 

If you are unsaved, or unsure if you have eternal life, please go to our  "Road to Salvation" page now, and be sure before it is too late!  As long as you draw breath, you have to opportunity to know for SURE where you will spend eternity, but once you die, or the Lord returns at the end of the Great Tribulation, it will be too late... you will have made your choice by then!  Be blessed by all, and have a blessed, peaceful day in the Lord!

Today we have the following updates:

• Scriptures: "God's Promises & Answers", Chapter 16 (new chapter added every Monday)

• New article: Paranoia Will Destroy Ya! by Jack Kinsella

• Today's Prayer Requests - Update on Uncle Scotty on Prayers for Life; new request on Prayers for Illness.

• New Recipe - "Foil Packet Grilled Taters & Onions"

• Today's Cute Animal picture!

• May, 2006 - Monthly calendar

• Download Richard's SONGS of praise for free!!!

• Don Francisco MP3's [My goal in life is to get all the way through "He's Alive" without crying! <smiles>]

• My POETRY of praise for free!!!

• SHARING PAGE SITE MAP!!!

• My FAVORITE SCRIPTURES (categorized)

• HEBREW/AMERICAN CALENDAR

NEW FOR TODAY:

2 TIMOTHY 3:

• Ford backs homosexual polygamy

• North Korea's grisly arms tests on babies (MI6 file describes concentration camp bigger, deadlier than Dachau, Auschwitz)

AMERICA:

• Gore in climate change plea (He said he believed scientists who said that there may be 10 years remaining to avoid "crossing the point of no return".) <- FEATURE!

• Japan Approves US Forces Plan (Cabinet approval of the plan paves the way for streamlining the approximately 50,000 U.S. military personnel in Japan and giving Tokyo a bigger role in the key alliance, the central pillar of its post-war diplomacy.)

• King Abdullah urges Cheney to revive peace process

ANTISEMITISM:

• Reuters employee issues 'Zionist pig' death threat (The message, sent from a Reuters internet account, read: "I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut.")

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION:

• City bars paintings with Bible verses

EARTHQUAKES:

• U.S. to test quake warning systems (The U.S. Geological Survey is taking a careful look at early warning systems for earthquakes, beginning with a three-year test in California.)

EUROPEAN UNION:

• Italy ‘ready to join EU mainstream’

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS:

• Bone Loss and Low-Carbohydrate Diets (Low carbohydrate diets -- high in protein, omega-6 fatty acids and saturated fat -- are shown to have negative effects on the bones in animal studies.)

• Brain Stimulator Takes Time to Fight Depression, But Benefit Lasts (A brain implant can help fight depression in patients for whom other treatments are ineffective, but the therapy can take as long as a year to show benefit...)

• Diabetes May be Clue to Pancreatic Cancer (Half of the patients had diabetes and saw the beginning of their diabetes over six months before they were diagnosed with cancer.)

NATURAL DISASTERS:

• Hurricanes to Unleash Dormant, Hidden Power (For decades, the potential of hurricanes was thwarted by pollution, a new study suggests. Now that we've cleared the air, "We may get something we didn't bargain for.") <- FEATURE!

• Volcano’s lake turns bright red (Scientists puzzled by dramatic shift on South Pacific island of Ambae) <- FEATURE!

STRANGE SIGNS:

• An Alignment of Stars and Planets (Something remarkable is about to happen in the evening sky. Three planets and a star cluster are converging for a close encounter you won't want to miss.) <- FEATURE!

NEW FOR YESTERDAY:

2 TIMOTHY 3:

• Babies aborted for not being perfect (The ethical storm over abortions has been renewed as it emerged that terminations are being carried out for minor, treatable birth defects.)

AMERICA:

• Japan Approves US Forces Plan

• Pentagon pressing for new rapid-strike weapon (The International Herald Tribune said the weapon would be a non-nuclear version of the submarine-launched Trident-2 missile and be part of a president's arsenal when considering a pre-emptive attack.)

ISRAEL HAPPENINGS:

• Tel Aviv within range of new Iran-supplied Hezbollah rocket

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS:

• Better Kidney Transplant Treatment (Now, a new therapy is giving many patients hope and making the whole process easier to endure. Today, college student Hollis Henley is healthy, but a few months ago, kidney failure -- caused by a serious virus -- threatened his life.)

• Bypass Surgery Roadmap (The SPY system allows him [the doctor] to fix a bypass while patients are still on the table, sparing them from another surgery or angioplasty.)

• Mystery Disease Makes Peoples' Skin Crawl (Called Morgellons Disease, patients who report having it describe sensations of creepy-crawlers beneath the skin and fibrous filaments oozing out of open wounds.)

• Wrapping Radiation Around [Brain & Spine] Tumors (One new treatment is taking targeted radiation to a new level and stopping cancer in its tracks.)

SCIENCE:

• Poison Ivy Grows Faster, Bigger, More Irritating

SIGNS OF THE TIMES/EARTHQUAKES:

• Indonesia Quake Death Toll at 5,427

• String of Earthquakes Unrelated, Scientists Say (While earthquakes are common and even expected along the belt that circles the Pacific Ocean, the Asian side of the rim has been struck particularly hard in the last 18 months by strong seismic activity.)

SIGNS OF THE TIMES/NATURAL DISASTERS:

• Undersea Volcano Eruption Caught on Tape

Have a blessed, peaceful day in the Lord!  Peg.

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