Cathy LaRosa

01/03/2024

07/08/2023

Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)

"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

07/01/2023

Happy Birthday, America. May God continue to 'shed His grace' on us.

06/25/2023

We belong to Him.
"Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God." John 1:12

06/25/2023

Let’s sing to the Lord!

FIRST HALF OF PERFORMANCE ("Fly Me to the Moon", Adam Levine & Blake Shelton): https://youtu.be/_06wMiYleTsThe Voice Season 14 Coach Performance: Adam Levine...

06/01/2023

We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
—1 Thessalonians 1:3

Faith, love, and endurance...may your life be filled with all three.

01/27/2023

https://natashacrain.com/7-problems-with-the-he-gets-us-campaign/

If you're going to "market" Jesus, it better be an accurate message about Him, lest you’re actually leading people away from the truth.

12/15/2022

See a video version of this and other quotes for the week of November 26th here:
https://youtu.be/6KPNAr9wWv0

11/23/2022

F***y Crosby: Blind Hymnwriter

In November of 1850, a 30-year-old woman who had been blind since six weeks after her birth, attended a revival. F***y Crosby was raised by her grandmother, who encouraged the young girl to pray and memorize whole books of Scripture. Her mother worked full time to support the family financially, which enabled Crosby to attend the New York Institute for the Blind. Eventually, she became a teacher at the school, where she was known as the “Blind Poetess,” and was visited by governmental figures.

When Crosby attended the revival in 1850, she was recovering from nursing others through cholera. Her devotion to Christ was deepened, and in 1864, she began to write hymns such as “Blessed Assurance” and “Safe in the Arms of Jesus” that remain beloved today.

She once said that a benefit of being blind was, “when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior.”

https://breakpoint.org/fanny-crosby-blind-hymnwriter/

11/03/2022

He is coming again!!

09/20/2022

Dig into the Word.

Listen to today’s devotional on todayintheword.org or anytime on the Today in the Word app.

08/30/2022

Build strength through the Word.

Listen to today’s devotional on todayintheword.org or anytime on the Today in the Word app.

08/19/2022

Great speech that is so worth listening to.
👏👏👏

Canceling a speaker is run-of-the-mill these days. So, when a university “cancels the cancellation,” it’s worth noting.

Dr. Kristin Collier is a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan and director of the school’s Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion. She was a natural choice to give the keynote address at the school’s white coat ceremony for incoming students. The Gold Humanism Honor Society selects speakers “who are exemplars of compassionate patient care and who serve as role models, mentors, and leaders in medicine.”

A group of 300 students protested because of Collier’s pro-life views. “We demand that UM stands in solidarity with us and selects a speaker whose values align with institutional policies, students, and the broader medical community,” they wrote in an anonymous letter.

Rather than bow to the pressure, as so many school officials have done in recent years, medical school dean Marschall Runge defended the choice of Collier and the school’s commitment to freedom of expression. “Our values speak about honoring the critical importance of diversity of personal thought and ideas,” he wrote in a statement. “We would not revoke a speaker because they have different personal ideas than others.”

The handful of students who walked out during Dr. Collier’s address missed something special, an incredible speech that challenged students to rethink what medicine is and is for.

“The risk of this education and the one that I fell into is that you can come out of medical school with a bio-reductionist, mechanistic view of people and ultimately of yourself. You can easily end up seeing your patients as just a bag of blood and bones or human life as just molecules in motion.”

You are not technicians taking care of complex machines, but human beings taking care of other human beings. Let’s resist a view, of our patients and ourselves, that strips us of our humanity, and takes away from the very goal of why we went into this profession in the first place: to take care of human beings entrusted to our care in their moments of greatest need.”

From there, Collier challenged these medical professionals in training to ask big questions about who they are and what they do, and to practice gratitude. It was a brilliant speech overshadowed by a fabricated and unnecessary controversy.

Roughly half of all Americans share Dr. Collier’s views on abortion, which she did not address in her speech. As Dr. Vinay Prasad wrote in the blog Common Sense, “I do not share Dr. Collier’s faith or her views on abortion. But ultimately, the decision of students to walk out of the lecture because they disagree with the speaker on another topic has no limit.”

Collier’s colleague, University of Michigan professor Scott Richard Lyons, wrote for Inside Higher Ed,

If the academy brooks no dissent, how can knowledge advance? If differing opinions are treated as thought crimes, how much longer will thinkers want to work at our universities? If institutions of higher education do not protect free thought and speech, intellectual diversity, dissent… why should they exist at all?

In fact, the University of Michigan’s Faculty Handbook states that “expression of diverse points of view is of the highest importance” and should be protected. Of course, most universities and organizations have similar statements but lack the courage to live by them.

In contrast, Dr. Collier’s courage, grace under pressure, and dedication to professional excellence exemplify what’s required in a culture that forgets that free speech in a free society blesses everyone. Her kindness to those who walked out of their own white coat ceremony exemplifies how we must treat everyone, from those who reject that freedom to those still located inside the womb. In that moment, she lived out her advice to not see people as machines but as human beings. Especially for those entering a profession especially prone to cynicism and burnout, her address is worth watching in its entirety.

Let’s pray there are many among that University of Michigan crowd who follow in Dr. Collier’s footsteps.

https://breakpoint.org/dr-kristen-collier-shows-why-freedom-of-speech-blesses-everyone/

02/26/2022

Joining with the King of the North or South means to accept, embrace, and practice the methods and principles of those systems: imposed law with governmental enforcement and coercion.

08/05/2021

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06/15/2021

This press conference should be watched from beginning to end. Not to be missed.

05/03/2021

Happening in our schools in the USA.
The professor here acts like the student and the student should be the professor.

Or wrong is right and right is wrong.

04/02/2021

This article is so true!

Doomscrolling fuels our anger, poisons our soul, and turns our neighbor’s pain into entertainment.

03/31/2021

Remember this as you go through life with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.....