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Texas native Don Williams, who forged his own musical identity in the 1970s with a unique and low-key style of country that earned him the nickname “The Gentle Giant,” passed away on Friday (Sept. 8). A press release from the singer's PR team confirms his death "after a short illness," saying that funeral arrangements are pending. He was 78 years old.

But the fruit of the Spirit is gentleness. Galatians 5:22-23 Being gentle does not come easily for me. I struggle against it. I tend to blurt something out because it needs to be said but often it comes across blunt and uncaring. Even as I write this I’m thinking, "yeah, so what? Why is this even an issue? You lay the subjects out on the table and let the chips fall where they may. It’s not as if you’re lying when you tell people." True. But my gruffness is often misinterpreted as mean and uncaring. Case in point. This week...

This animated footage is of a rabbit and cat that at days end fall to sleep. The instrumental of this footage is a shortened version of the hymn, “Sweet Hour of Prayer”. This footage of a tired rabbit and cat is a favorite of many and received multiple five star ratings around the world.

Rabbit and cat animation at days end, fall to sleep. The instrumental of this footage is a shortened version of the hymn, “Sweet Hour of Prayer”.

WHAT IS THE NATURE OF CHRISTIAN LOVE? --IT'S DEPTH, BREADTH, DIMENSIONS-- Have prayed since Jr High to be able to love like Jesus. That's a pretty hazardous prayer. The training for answers to that prayer is a lot like the training for wisdom, humility and patience. Lots of long dark nights of the soul; refiner's fires; being ground to powder, blown to the 4 winds--recollected--dipped in vinegar and ran through the manure spreader backwards . . . can all be SOP--common events. Here are some questions to get us started prayerfully considering these principles and truths: 1. What is...

<p>NICKEL MINES, Pa., Oct. 8 -- The one-room Amish schoolhouse where five young girls were shot to death and five more were wounded last week will be torn or burned down and rebuilt elsewhere, according to a member of the close-knit community.</p>

British security chiefs are studying a novel Saudi approach to combating terror - using clerics to debate "jihad" with jailed militants and convert them to more moderate beliefs. Seeking to fight Islamic extremism with Islamic theologians, the Saudi authorities say they successfully re-educated some 400 out of 700 extremists and released them from prison. The Islamic "counselling" programme is part of what British experts regard as Saudi Arabia's "model counter-terrorism campaign". Senior officials, including the MI5 chief, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, have visited the kingdom to devise a similar "counter-radicalisation" strategy for Britain. Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries...

"I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history." (Sen. John Kerry, Remarks At The UNITY 2004 Conference, Washington, D.C., 8/5/04)LEARN MORE ABOUT KERRY/EDWARDS' SHIFTING POSITIONS AT WWW.KERRYONIRAQ.COM