A little etymology lesson: data derives from the Latin, dare (pronounced DAH-ray), “to give,” and means “given.” (Back when I took Latin, it was typically the second verb the conjugation of which one learned. The first was amo, “I love,” the infinitive form of which is amare.) Data means “given.” In the natural sciences, it’s supposed to mean what […]
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While most of the global elite and politicians and media are worried that human action will usher in global warming, the more likely scenario for the next thirt years or more is global cooling. And while some warming would be mostly good for people and planet, cooling would not. That’s the testimony of history. Humanity
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You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s. Heavenly Father, Your Word is filled with warnings about the dangers associated with riches. What will it profit a man if
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Father, twice in a single sentence You spoke, through the prophet Isaiah, of Yourself as “the God of truth,” and our Savior Jesus spoke of Himself as the way the Truth and the life and prayed that we might be sanctified through the truth, adding that Your Word is truth. Give us a passion for
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Lord, You tell us that the earth is Yours because You made it, and from that we learn that producing something is the basis of ownership. You also tell us to respect others’ property—not only that we don’t steal it, but also that we don’t harm it, but instead act to preserve it securely as
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O LORD our God, you have made every man, woman, and child an image of Yourself, to be honored and respected for that reason all by itself. Yet millennium after millennium, century after century, decade after decade, year after year, month after month, week after week, day after day, we have, as a human race,
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Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Father in Heaven, You are the model Father. You show us what it truly means to love our children. While those who don’t know you worry about what they will eat or what
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Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock,
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Oh Father, You are of purer eyes than to look upon evil, and You made us, male and female, to express love and fruitfulness through our sexuality. But we, Your creatures, have sullied sex, as we’ve sullied everything else, by misusing it, often by idolizing it. Teach us, like Your servant Job, to make a
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“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.” “O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!” Heavenly Father, Your creation, the work of Your hands, is a glorious revelation of Your
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