Lucas Garden

4“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it? ; 5And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. ; 6When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ ; 7In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!  (Luke 15:4-7) It is a genuine love to cherish a very small one. Although I had made tremendous achievements so far, I should lament even for my extremely small sin made today. Forget whatever might be full of either glorious memories or terrible misdeeds accumulated over the past, and just concentrate on this moment. As Jesus Christ forgave all my sins, save me who was a lost sheep and gave me an eternal life, fo...

The overview of preprocessing for hyperoxia fMRI of the placenta and fetal brain. Inadequate supply of oxygen to the fetus may compromise fetal health and well-being. Recently, the effects of maternal oxygen supply on fetal brain oxygenation have been explored using blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). A challenge with unsedated in vivo fetal fMRI is fetal motion, which seriously perturbs fMRI data quality and reliable data analysis. I and my colleagues working at the Developing Brain Research Laboratory in Children's National Medical Center recently published a paper, titled " Robust preprocessing for stimulus-based functional MRI of the moving fetus " in the Journal of Medical Imaging . The article had been selected as a 'featured article' in the Journal of Medical Imaging from April to June, 2016. The paper presents a robust method for correcting motion artifact from fMRI data of the fetal brain and placent...

I used to feel resentment whenever I am mistreated and unfair by someone, and my honesty is suspected, while I seem to be relatively patient in any physical violence. However, if I were a true Christian, how would I do in such a situation? As I was delivered out of sins by Jesus Christ without any cost, it is natural that I should also forgive anyone who slanders me. Forgiveness as well as thanks and joy should be unconditional for all Christians. As Jesus prayed for Pharisees who scoffed at him and crucified him, the prayer for foes should also be unconditional for all Christians.