As I walk in from an evening walk tonight I see the devastation caused by a two mile wide tornado in the Oklahoma City area. In the last month I've been to Oklahoma twice. Once to present a Battlefield Hollywood seminar in the Tulsa area. Listening to the newscaster he mentioned how many were found dead being in the open, but there are those who had been saved. They were the ones in a shelter. I'm reminded of another tragedy where a shelter is needed: I saw that many were neglecting the preparation so needful and were looking to the time of "refreshing" and the "latter rain" to fit th… [Read more]

Over the past few years I’ve been learning some amazing things about gardening.  The most important thing I’ve learned is the condition and health of my garden soil.  The condition of the soil is referring to the macro and micro nutrients that are present, while the health of the soil is referring to the micro organisms, such as bacterium and fungi. and macro organisms such as earthworms. Most people are familiar with the big three, N(nitrogen), P(phosphorus), K(potassium).  For the most part, these three are the main focus of commercial agriculture’s chemical farming, and yes, they a… [Read more]

Would you like to know if you're really a Christian? Maybe someone will say ... "I live my life right." No. That's not proof of anything. Many people live properly without Jesus. They have an external morality and look very good. There are people of high morals, who would also be able to take off their shirt and give it to a needy person, and yet is capable of cursing. The external moral behavior can be caused by all sorts of reasons: We want others to think well of us. How then can we know if we are really Christians? The book Steps to Christ gives us two solid pieces of evidence… [Read more]

Christmas day has come and gone, we are on the verge of another year and yet some of the "warmth" of the season hangs on. What is special about this time of year? To some it's known as the Christmas season. Others it's Hanukkah. Still others it means nothing. None the less, this time of year (at least in the U.S.) it's a time when warmth, family, loneliness, love, and ultra selfish materialism converge. What is this period of the year supposed to be about? For me personally this time of year always brings to my forefront multiple significant higher points of thought. I understand where … [Read more]

It's like a domino effect. Lower blood plasma clotting factors in turn produce lower levels of coagulation factors. The low coagulation factors prevent the formation of fibrin. And the result, well the blood flows because it takes much longer to produce a blood clot. The ladies, almost never experience the recessive X chromosome disorder. A deficiency in clotting factor VIII will happen in about 1 and 10K males, and a deficiency in clotting factor IX will happen in about 1 and 20K-34K males. We know it today as hemophilia B. And it's nicknamed the "Royal Disease". And it has … [Read more]