Devotionals

March 3, 2010

Could increasing your happiness reduce your risk of heart disease?

In a large, population-based study out of Europe, researchers found that an increased positive affect (happiness) was protective against a 10-year incidence of coronary heart disease. […]

March 3, 2010

Why is optimism is associated with health, pessimism with disease?

So, be honest: Is you life glass half-full or half-empty? I tend to be the former, and based upon the research I’m glad I have a […]

March 3, 2010

Could being bored be bad for your health?

Can you really be bored to death? According to a report in USA Today, in a commentary to be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in […]

March 3, 2010

Like happiness, loneliness is contagious

Loneliness, like happiness, can be contagious, says recent research showing how feeling lonely can make others lonely, too. Below are the details from a report in […]

March 2, 2010

Celiac disease seen as being vastly underdiagnosed

Do you have chronic abdominal symptoms that have never been diagnosed? Or, have you self-diagnosed your recurrent abdominal pain as lactose intolerance or irritable bowel syndrome? […]

March 2, 2010

If you think you’re lactose intolerant you may be wrong

Do you think you are lactose intolerant? Think again — at least according to a draft consensus statement a panel of experts at the National Institutes […]

February 24, 2010

Senate report links Avandia to increased risk of heart attacks, death. What am I telling my Avandia patients to do?

In a front-page story, the New York Times reported, “Hundreds of people taking Avandia [rosiglitazone], a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each […]

July 2, 2021

You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high

Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? … Is it only for bowing one’s head like […]

July 2, 2021

Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children

Walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

July 3, 2021

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us

For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own […]

July 3, 2021

Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished

Those who are righteous will go free … But the Lord is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.

July 4, 2021

Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible

I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to […]

July 4, 2021

My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare

Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish. […]