“LIFE Groups” is a term we use to highlight the role of small groups within our fellowship. We use the “LIFE” acronym to mean

L: Live Victoriously or Live for the Sake of Others – The group helps support a victorious, unselfish life.
I: Illuminate Truth, Beauty & Goodness – The group helps to teach about God’s truth, beauty and goodness through our everyday experiences.
F: Fellowship as One Family Under God – The group helps us to unite as one family, regardless of religious or cultural background. Bring the best of your tradition here!
E: Express/Experience God’s Love & Culture – We can share and experience God’s Love and Culture through group interactions.
AEVIA

“Wherever I put my head, that is my place of worship. No matter where I am, that is where God is. Vineyards, roses, nightingales, the sema and loving . . . They are all symbols, the reason is always Him.”
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All they had to do, the scientists said, was add four genes. The genes reprogrammed the chromosomes of the skin cells, making the cells into blank slates that should be able to turn into any of the 220 cell types of the human body, be it heart, brain, blood or bone. For all the hopes invested in it over the last decade, embryonic stem cell research has moved slowly, with no cures or major therapeutic discoveries in sight. But with the new method, human cloning for stem cell research, like the creation of human embryos to extract stem cells, may be unnecessary.
Researchers and ethicists not involved in the findings say the work, conducted by independent teams from Japan and Wisconsin, should reshape the stem cell field.

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“The choice we must make is as important as it is clear. It is a choice between corporate power and the power of democracy. It is caution versus courage. Calculation versus principle. It is the establishment elites versus the American people.”

Edwards has made this a master theme of campaign, identifying his willingness to fight the corporations and “beat them again and again” as the major feature distinguishing him from his chief rivals for the Democratic nomination. All the Democratic candidates are for “change,” Edwards notes, but “the real question is how change occurs.” His answer comes straight out of Frederick Douglass, who observed that “power never concedes without a fight.” Without directly saying so, he rightly suggests that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are wedded to a cautious and cowardly corporate-insider model that will compel them to betray their democratic- and populist-sounding campaign promises once they attained power.

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“The results suggest that enhanced depression care of workers has benefits not only on clinical outcomes but also on workplace outcomes,” the investigators wrote in the Sept. 26 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association.

The findings indicate that the added costs to employers of mental health benefits may have an even bigger payoff in terms of worker health and productivity, commented Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., M.P.H., and Jeanne Miranda, Ph.D., of the University of California at Los Angeles, in an accompanying editorial.

“The monetary value of the increased work time under the program exceeded the direct intervention costs and likely exceeded or was within the range of cost increases due to greater mental health specialty use under the intervention,” they wrote.

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The mystery of one response to a lawsuit against God has been solved. Eric Perkins, an attorney in Corpus Christi, Texas, said Friday he filed a response to the lawsuit from Nebraska State Sen. Ernie Chambers. “It’s kind of a turn on ‘What would Jesus do?'” Perkins said. “I thought to myself, “What would God say?”
“Defendant denies that this or any court has jurisdiction … over Him any more than the court has jurisdiction over the wind or rain, sunlight or darkness,” according to Perkins’ response.
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All the chatter on the message boards during the outage slowly got around to the subject of switching to Linux; there is no way such a thing could ever happen to Linux users. This is not what Microsoft wants to read, especially on its own forums. The Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) plan became a genuine disadvantage over the weekend when the server that verified users went down and began to disable operating systems around the world.
A hacker attack on the WGA servers could shut down literally millions of machines whose users stupidly subscribed to this supposed “advantage,” which does little more than look for pirated copies of the OS. If this WGA were designed right in the first place, the computers that found the server inoperative when they checked in to it should have internal code that validates their OS until the server comes back up. Maybe it is too hard for Microsoft’s 20,000 coders to manage this sort of thing. Too logical.
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Making art is hardly easy. We struggle to express truth among the ruins of our culture, to bring beauty into disordered lives. Sometimes, circumstances just roll over us, flattening our creative energies.

What can we do? Much, because the Word became flesh.

At the beginning, our Triune God had worked with such joy and wisdom that his material world was drenched with goodness. Unalloyed goodness. Indeed, we were the pinnacle of his workmanship. But, we crashed…and shattered the relational intimacy for which he had designed us.

End of story? No, there is hope, because the Word became flesh. God’s goodness has graced us. In Jesus, he has freshly dignified our bodies and lifted up the material world.

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