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How To Avoid Heart Attacks

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How To Avoid A Heart AttackTwo young men in our church had heart attacks this year. Both were caught completely by surprise. I saw one of them at my health club last Tuesday and discovered that he had a major heart attack at the club, after I left. Brian just got out of the hospital yesterday, after staying there 1 week. Another good friend from church needed stents last year and has completely changed his diet. All three friends now have stents in their arteries.

I asked them to share any insights they had for how to avoid a heart attack and what life changes they would be making. I know that some heart attacks can be genetic but I believe most can be avoided. Why not make changes now and not have a heart attack in the first place. These are the things that they wanted me to share with you:

  1.  If you smoke – QUIT. Even casual smoking can damage your heart. [Read more…]

Blue Planet Videos

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I particularly love hearing great sermons, but sometimes you can’t even put in words what God has created. Then I never tire of seeing inspirational pictures and movies of what God has created. Recently, I’ve been enjoying a series of movies about our ‘Blue Planet‘. They are available from Amazon and easily viewed on my new Kindle.

The first movie opens with the largest animal on earth, the Blue Whales. They weigh hundreds of tons and are incredible beautiful. The footage is superb and when you realize that there is more life in the sea than on land, it’s staggering. Did you know that the largest animal migration happens every night? Sea animals from the deep come up in the dark to feed.

Our God has made so many beautiful plants and animals and many are revealed to us in these movies. I found myself continually amazed and grateful for what He has made! What an AMAZING and Loving God we have!

One of my prayer partners asked me to share the link to the videos and I thought I would share them with you too.

Violin Lessons

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Violin Lessons

We carry a book for playing worship music on the violin, but don’t have a step by step system for learning to play this instrument. Like the guitar, there are several styles of playing the violin. I just found a website tonight that teaches students of all ages how to play the violin.

Click here to find out about violin lessons.

The teacher, Ed Lewis, plays many styles of music and this looks like a very good option for learning to play the violin on the internet. Even if you already have a violin teacher, I think you can always learn from being exposed to different music teachers.

Once you learn the foundations of playing the violin, then you can find the book we carry useful. It’s called ‘Beginner Praise for Violin‘ and contains a dozen beautiful worship songs to play on the violin. Songs like ‘As The Deer’ and ‘El Shaddai’.

Music Is A Great Stress Buster!

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Live MusicI just read an article in the LA Times yesterday about how live music at a VA Hospital in Fresno makes a tremendous difference in the stress levels of the Veterans there. Good music is soothing to the soul. It’s both healing to hear and healing to play, especially with worship songs.

This isn’t surprising. When King David was young he spent hours playing music as a shepherd boy. Later, it was his playing the calmed the spirit of King Saul. Have you experienced that too? That playing music can bring you such peace.

At the VA Hospital in the article, they used money donated to improve the hospital’s aesthetics to hire first a harpist, then later a classical guitar player. They discovered that they didn’t see this same benefit with recorded music. I wonder what that recorded music was and if it may have been different than the live.

It’s nice to see that guitar music was beneficial to these patients. At one of our Worship Parties, a dear friend told me later that God had healed her heart through the worship. Keep playing your guitars and worshiping our Amazing God!

A neuroscientist, Mr. Levitin, said that music can actually adjust and alter your brain chemistry. The whole article is here – Live Music At Fresno’s VA hospital makes a big difference.