Unwell

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I’ve been sick for over a month now. Since August, my asthma has been overly sensitive, then I got a cold and can’t seem to fully recover. I’ve cough so much I nearly pass out because I can’t stop—and actually have passed out (once last year when I had RSV, and the other night. I started coughing then woke up on the ground). Laughing causes the same result so I must be careful. My head hurts from coughing all the time.  Since breathing is compromised, I have zero energy. I have a nice stool at work on which to sit but getting things done around the house is nearly impossible. Taking the trash up and back absolutely winds me. I have one day off, like today, and all I want to do is sleep.  “ . . . to die, to sleep; No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may c...

Columbia International University Graduates to Impact the Nations with the Message of Christ

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by Bob Holmes

The 2008 commencement exercises for the Undergraduate School at Columbia International University will take place on Saturday, May 3. The ceremony will begin at 9:00 a.m. in Shortess Chapel on the campus of CIU.

CIU President Dr. William H. Jones will present degrees to 100 graduates, including the Bachelor of Science degree, Bachelor of Arts degree and the Bible Certificate.

The commencement address will be delivered by Sinclair B. Ferguson, senior minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, S.C. and professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. A graduate of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Ferguson is the author of two dozen books, numerous articles and has contributed to various symposia. His writing interests have ranged from works of scholarship to books for children. Ferguson has also served as minister of two congregations in Scotland.

The ceremony will include the new CIU tradition of presenting a bag of seeds to each graduate, as they are encouraged to sow the seed of the gospel in accordance with CIU’s purpose statement: CIU educates people from a biblical worldview to impact the nations with the message of Christ.

The Columbia International University Graduate School and the CIU Seminary & School of Missions will hold commencement exercises on May 17 at 9:00 a.m., also in Shortess Chapel.

Columbia International University is located at 7435 Monticello Road in Columbia, S.C. two miles north of I-20. (click here for map)

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