November 29, 2019

  • Saved

    Thirty years ago, November 29, 1989, I was lying in bed listening to a preacher on the radio talk about the importance of being "saved" by the Lord Jesus Christ... how to have one's sins forgiven, and receive eternal life guaranteed as a free gift from God, because of Jesus' death in which Jesus paid for our sins.

    The preacher said that this was extremely simple to do - simply ask Jesus to save me. I realized that I had never done this, and that it was something everyone should do.

    So that night I asked Jesus to save me. I don't remember the words, but I understood that I was a sinner and that He offered free forgiveness to me, and I just asked Him for it.

    Afterward, for the first time in my life, I had peace and confidence about my eternal status before God and about life after death. I was no longer trusting in my own goodness to make me acceptable in His sight, but trusting in Jesus' goodness. I had been "born again", adopted into the family of God.

    I've since learned more about Him, and more reasons to believe in Him and trust Him. I've seen my own sin more and more clearly, but His promise of forgiveness still holds. I've learned that God never lets go or gives up on His adopted children.

    "...He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God" (John 1:11-12)

  • Adam Eve and Genetics

    Did Adam and Eve exist? Fascinating brief 13-minute interview from last week about modern genetic evidence confirming the literal understanding of Genesis.
    https://creation.com/media-c…/youtube/did-adam-and-eve-exist

    For more thoughts, see https://goo.gl/gW2QqA

November 23, 2019

November 9, 2019

  • Justice.... eventually

    Here are three recent articles about the lack of justice in various parts of the world such as Honduras and Egypt... and what God is doing, both now behind the scenes, and (see quote from Psalm 10) what He is going to do in a big, final, way some day. If you only have time to read one article, read the first one.

    https://world.wng.org/2019/11/reclaiming_home_turf
    https://world.wng.org/2019/11/the_slow_work_of_god
    https://pjmedia.com/new…/christians-denied-justice-in-egypt/

    "Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up Your hand.
    Do not forget the afflicted.

    Why has the wicked spurned God?
    He has said to himself, “You will not require it.”

    You have seen it, for You have beheld mischief and vexation to take it into Your hand.
    The unfortunate commits himself to You;
    You have been the helper of the orphan.

    Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,
    Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

    The Lord is King forever and ever;
    Nations have perished from His land.

    O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
    You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear

    To vindicate the orphan and the oppressed,
    So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror."
    Psalm 10:12-18

November 6, 2019

  • God knows the whole story

    Ron Hamilton wrote this song 38 years ago (3 years after he lost one eye to cancer).

    God never moves without purpose or plan
    When trying His servant and molding a man.
    Give thanks to the LORD though your testing seems long;
    In darkness He giveth a song.

    O Rejoice in the LORD
    He makes no mistake,
    He knoweth the end of each path that I take,
    For when I am tried
    And purified,
    I shall come forth as gold.

    I could not see through the shadows ahead;
    So I looked at the cross of my Savior instead.
    I bowed to the will of the Master that day;
    Then peace came and tears fled away.

    Now I can see testing comes from above;
    God strengthens His children and purges in love.
    My Father knows best, and I trust in His care;
    Through purging more fruit I will bear.

October 26, 2019

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September 26, 2019

  • Mutations are not necessarily random... Why?

    Fascinating: Recent studies show that most genetic mutations are not "neutral". They are either pre-programmed (e.g. immune antibodies), hotspot-localized, or (most commonly) slightly harmful... but not harmful enough to prevent reproduction. This shows that our genes are degrading, supporting creationist John Sanford's idea of "genetic entropy" and showing that Darwinism is wrong... not only can (neo)Darwinism not explain the molecular development of animal and human organs and proteins and cells, but (neo)Darwinism can't even explain how our genome can be maintained over thousands of years without degrading and heading toward 'genetic meltdown'.
    By contrast, the genetic evidence strongly supports the Bible's explanation in Genesis - God created all life, and intelligently-designed the genomes. See the article below, and this one: http://goo.gl/gW2QqA
    https://crev.info/2019/09/genomics-evolution-baseless/

September 15, 2019

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