![]() ![]() “They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt, wonderous works in the land of Ham, awesome things by the Red Sea” ( Ps. ![]() We tend to think that forgetting is a reasonable excuse, whereas in Scripture it is an additional offense. The parents must respond, “In God’s book, complaining and grumbling and whining were not permitted,” and then the child must be disciplined for it. ![]() Because of our connection to Adam, children will start grumbling as soon as they figure out how. God disciplined the Hebrew children in the wilderness for their grumbling. The long-term result of discipline is the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Hebrews 12:11 says it this way: “Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” Short-term discipline is painful. The first thing to note is that effective discipline is painful. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Review of lessons in chemistry![]() ![]() We’re made aware of her plight as a single mother and the general contours of her personal life, at which point the author reels time back by a decade or so, taking us to the 1950s, where her life was quite different.īefore turning into a rising star, Elizabeth was a chemist, which meant she was destined to be one of the sole women working in a field dominated by men. The novel begins by introducing us to Elizabeth, living in 1960s California, the star of a revolutionary cooking show taking the country by storm, garnering supporters left and right. Though some of us might feel like we live in progressive enough parts of the world, it’s always important to remember things were fairly different not so long ago, as they were for Elizabeth Zott, the protagonist in Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Living as a woman in a man’s world presents difficulties which I believe everyone can understand and should be made aware of, even if roughly half the humans on this planet will never actually experience them. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Azra raza the first cell![]() ![]() The First Cell Center aims to challenge and replace the. Showing that compassion is just as important for cancer patients as the drugs administered to them, Raza’s deeply personal work brings understanding and empathy to the fore in a way that a purely scientific explication never could. Azra Raza envisioned the center with the goal of improving early cancer detection and treatment. Progress is being made on this front, she shows, but only a small percentage of available research dollars are being spent on it. Her message is as simple as it is paradigm-shifting: rather than trying to kill every last cancer cell, medicine needs to focus on finding the first occurring cancer cells. Meanwhile, most new cancer drugs, if they work at all, add months to life and are accompanied by severe costs, both financial and physiological. ![]() She masterfully explains how her research science work intersects with her job treating dying patients on a daily basis: “Nowhere is the science of medicine replaced by the art of caring as in the final days of a terminal illness.” She also explains why using animal models to search for new cancer treatments is unlikely to work, as cancer is so variable and dependent on the specific environment in which it grows. Explores cancer from every angle: medical, scientific, cultural, and personal. ![]() Raza, a Columbia University professor of medicine and practicing oncologist, offers a passionate account of how humans grapple with the scourge of cancer. THE FIRST CELL: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last. ![]() |