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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Links to Your World--Tuesday July 24

In “Sentenced to Life,” learn how Shawn Hagwood ended up in prison, and how a stranger's kindness showed him that he didn't need to stay there.

Housing: should you rent or buy?

See the Highlights Videos from this year's Uncivil War!

Read the fascinating account from our newest member, Art Starratt, about life as a WW2 POW.

I've been Simpsonized.

A fire crew tests their skills--on the wrong house.

What Austin’s skyline will look like in the future. (HT: Simply Missional)

So it’s true: There really is no time like the present. (HT: The Morning News)

Untamed nature: A fascinating photographic project by Steve Bloom. (HT: Presurfer)

“He sees colors in the eye that most of us never notice. For one recent patient, an 84-year-old woman from Montana, he painted an iris with a dark gray-green base color and a dark reddish-brown central area. He highlighted the work with a rusty-gold colored border and dotted it with brownish freckles.” The work of a prosthetic eye builder.

In, “A Royal Ruin,” Douglas Groothuis explains Pascal’s argument for the truth of Christianity from the combination of both greatness and wretchedness in humanity.

Find out the basics of what you need to know about the night sky here.

How to spend five minutes a day in the Bible with your child.

Julie "Bible Girl" Lyons asks some probing questions about your comfort level with people of different races and cultures.

I missed the print edition of Eileen Flynn's coverage of Hope Chapel's arts festival in the Statesman. Here it is online.

Have you read the previous posts this week? They include the "Song of the Week" ("Almost Fed Up with the Blues" by John Hiatt), highlights from the Uncivil War, part three of "Four Secrets to Success," the power of prayer, and getting Simpsonized. To keep up with the journal, sign up for e-mail updates or assign the feed to your news reader or Google Personalized Home Page.

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