I do not know how to start this post but sure would love to tell you its a very beautiful one and you will definitely love this.
My boss the other day was preparing a sermon on God's love and was just browsing through the website when he came across Louie GIglio's Laminin on Youtube. He asked me to check it out. And it really left me speechless...
Louie Giglio, a pastor/evangelist and founder of Choice Ministries and Passion Conferences, speaks wonderfully to the crowd about the glories of science and how the heavens proclaim his majesty. He also talks about the human body and how we are "wonderfully and fearfully" made, in the image and likeness of God.
At one point he was talking about how at one conference he had happened to meet a guy who came up to him and introduced himself to Louie. They get to talking and Louie tells him about his upcoming series about the human body and how we are "wonderfully and fearfully" made. The guy says, "Well, that's great, because I'm a molecular Biologist down the street at the University. Why don't you show me your talk?" Louie says that he couldn't believe it, but was very nervous, thinking, "Well, it's not quite ready for a molecular Biologist to look over." But he shows him what he had, and the Biologist asks him, "Ok, where's your left hook? You have to have a left hook, to slam dunk the speech." Louie said that he didn't have one, so the Biologist tells him, "Oh man, your left hook has GOT to be Laminin." Louie was thinking, "Ok, Laminin, yea that's it, I'm gonna go talk about Laminin, whatever that is, and that's gonna start a revolution, a revival to sweep all across the land, yea, that's it."
But the Biologist says, "No, you must go home and google Laminin, look it up for yourself., you have to SEE Laminin" So excited, but not thinking it was going to be that big of a deal, he goes home and googles Laminin, and to his astonishment the first picture he sees, is the first one to the right. The molecular structure of Laminin. In the shape of a cross!!!
Now what is Laminin, you ask? According to wikipedia:
"Laminins are the major non-collagenous component of the basal lamina, such as those on which cells of an epithelium sit. They are a family of glycoproteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue. Laminins are secreted and incorporated into cell-associated extracellular matrices. They are shaped like a cross."
In essence, they are a certain type of protein, and they are the glue that holds us together. Without Laminin, there would be no cell adhesion.
Louie goes on to quote Paul's letter to the Collosians:
"1 Colossians 16 &17 says, "For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.""
And I was like... seriously is God trying to be funny or what... but he is awesome...
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