The House continues to deal with bills that have come over from the Senate, including House bills that the Senate has amended. One of my bills, House File 917, which deals with limiting the liability of motocross facilities, returned from the Senate with an amendment that expanded the bill ...
Boston. It’s one of America’s great cities, the home of Harvard and MIT, and the birthplace of the American Revolution. The Gaffneys took in the sights of Beantown last summer. Along the Freedom Trail, we were humbled and grateful for the courage and boldness of our nation’s founding ...
Easter Sunday in 1975 was March 30, and at that time I was a middle school student, socially awkward and with few friends. I did have the great fortune of having a stable, loving home with siblings and two great parents, but in spite of that I felt unhappy and empty. The year prior had been rough, especially when a close friend was diagnosed with a heart ailment and told that he would only live until he was in his 30’s. It turned out that he did not even have that much time, and he died before the year was out. A night late in May The Summer prior, my family vacationed in ...
In a recent article appearing in the Times-Republican, AI was used to research Christianity’s view of life after death. With Easter upon us, let’s look to the Word of God itself, for guidance on what happens when we die. Genesis 2:7 tells us that God connected human beings with the rest of physical creation when He formed us, “from the dust of the ground.” In other words, we are very similar to animals both in our physiological and chemical make-up. But, when God “breathed into man the breath of life,” He was breathing a part of Himself into man. He was breathing ...
Jesus Christ died, was buried, and rose again and this is the Good News that makes life worth living. Jesus of Nazareth is the only human being and the only religious leader the world has ever known that has been raised from the dead never to die again. He is Alive and is the King of kings and Lord of lords and is going to come to earth again someday soon as Judge of the living and the dead to make all things new! With all of the darkness and discouragement and depression that our world deals with, there is no doubt that Jesus Christ is the Answer! The fact that Jesus Christ is raised ...
Do you tend to put others’ needs before your own? Do you have trouble saying no? Do you alter your personality in subtle ways to make yourself more likeable to others? These are signs of fawning, a type of people pleasing behavior that stems from complex trauma or adverse childhood experiences. Fawning is considered a fourth type of trauma response, adding to the more well-known responses of fight, flight, or freeze. It occurs when a person attempts to avoid harm by appeasing an abuser. Individuals may use this maladaptive coping technique to appease a perpetrator in an attempt to ...
