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                 In 1960, the Aral Sea was the fourth-largest inland lake in the world.   Located on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea played host to a fishing industry that supported some 3.5 million people around its shoreline. Then things began to change.   In 1959, officials in the Soviet Union diverted the two streams that fed the Aral Sea so that they could irrigate cotton fields.   While the cotton grew, the Aral Sea shrank.   Within a few years, the lake began to evaporate and by 2014 most of the former lake bed was a desert.   People moved away.   Lively cities became ghost towns and now the only tourists that visit this once popular area are those who enjoy seeing ecological disasters. This story interests me because I see a similar process at work in th

 Typically, if you accuse someone of being a "sell out", it is a bad thing. In this case, it is not only good, but necessary!  

 In a world that can drag us down, we need something that lifts us up.  

                 When reading scripture, it is easy to get the facts right and the application wrong.   Take the story of Daniel and the lion’s den for example.                Five hundred years before Christ, a man named Daniel lived in the Persian Empire.   God blessed him, and he eventually rose to be second in command in the entire kingdom.   This displeased some of his coworkers because he was a foreigner and they decided to get rid of him.   After digging through his history and work records, they could find nothing wrong, so they came up with a different plan.                They convinced King Darius that it would be a good idea to have everyone in the kingdom pray to him for the next month.   This would be unifying, and it would show loyalty to the king.   Darius thought this was a

What the story about Daniel and the lions den actually teaches us!  

 Finding abundant life.....