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The School of Faith – Abraham
Last Sunday night my son Enric preached another sermon in his series. I was touched as his mom, how the Bible has helped him as he teaches the Word, and gives examples in his own life, about faith. Listen to his Sermon HERE … Read entire article »
Irritating
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind” ~Albert Einstein It was 1916 and Albert Einstein didn’t like where his calculations were leading him. If his theory of General Relativity was true, it meant that the universe was not eternal but had a beginning. Einstein’s calculations indeed were revealing a definite beginning to all time, all matter, and all space. This flew in the face of his belief that the universe was static and … Read entire article »
Drawing Heaven
A young self-taught painter with a lot of talent. A video from CNN, and it’s amazing! … Read entire article »
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Find Your Backbone
The end of the year and the beginning of another should give us all pause to reflect, to plan, and to hope. I came across this book quote on Jeff’s blog and I had to borrow it as it seemed timed perfectly for the end of December. “Gumption” by novelist J.C. Hutchins Most of us settle in, and settle for what we have. Rather than pursue, we accept. Our lives become unwitting celebrations of passivity: we undervalue our work and perceive ourselves as wage slaves (and so we phone it in at the day gig), we consume compulsively (but not create), we pine for better lives (but live vicariously through our televisions). These corners we paint ourselves into, it’s no way to live. There’s no adventure here, no passion, no hunger for change. Remember that relentless optimism you once had? The goals you … Read entire article »
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Intelligent Being Required
(or Johnny and the Garbage part two). Naturalistic biologists assert that life generated spontaneously from non living chemicals by natural laws without any intelligent intervention. Such a theory might have seemed plausible to a nineteenth-century scientist who didn’t have the technology to investigate the cell and discover its amazing complexity. DNA has a helical structure that looks like a twisted ladder. The sides of the ladder are formed by alternating deoxyribose and phosphate molecules, and the rungs … Read entire article »
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Johnny and the Garbage
Sixteen year old Johnny came down from his bedroom and stumbled into the kitchen to get a bowl of his favorite cereal-Alpha Bits. When he got to the table, he was surprised to see that the cereal box was knocked over, and the Alpha Bit letters spelled “TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE-MOM” on the place mat. Recalling a recent high school biology lesson, Johnny didn’t attribute the message to his mom. After all, he’d just been taught … Read entire article »
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Look to the Heavens
After spending the weekend at the beach, looking at the heavens in the vast sky, and looking to the infinite sands of the beach, and knowing out to sea there was a tremendous force of nature (Hurricane Bill) not too far away, reminded me of God and infinity… The Bible tells us to “look to the heavens” if we want to get an idea of what God is like…David wrote in Psalm 19, “The heavens alone … Read entire article »
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The Universe Came to Be
“Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.” -Albert Einstein Still reading I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist. The book in its third chapter gives some scientific proof of a beginning in time. (too much to go into here, but I do recommend the book). Later in the chapter, though, it gives a philosophical line of evidence. Although I don’t quite grasp it, I found it interesting. But first, a little mention of … Read entire article »
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Who Cares About the Truth?
From the book, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist: He said, “I don’t believe the Bible. But if it’s true, then I’ll be in big trouble.” We sometimes ask our students, “What’s the greatest problem in America today? Is it ignorance or is it apathy?” One time a student answered, “I don’t know, and I don’t care!” That sums up the problem in America today. Many of us are ignorant and apathetic about truth… Many … Read entire article »
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Not Enough Faith
to be an Atheist? In yet ANOTHER early birthday present, Enric and Miranda gave me a book by Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” Great Title! Excerpt of the Preface: “Should you disbelieve what an atheist writes about Christianity just because he’s an athiest? Not necessarily, because he could be telling the truth. Should you disblieve what a Christian writes about atheism just because he’s a Christian? Again, not necesarily-he too could be telling the truth. But what about the an author’s agenda? Does an agenda fatally taint his objectivity? If so, no book is objective, including those by atheists and skeptics. Why? Because ALL books are written for a reason, all authors have an agenda , and all (or at least most) authors believe what … Read entire article »
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Biology, It’s a Command
I wish, when I was in tenth grade Biology, someone would have told me what Henry Morris writes in his book I am currently reading, Defending The Faith . I think I would have tried a whole lot harder. Mr Morris writes: The Bible encourages-in fact, commands- the study of biology and all other factual science. The very first divine commandment given to man was: ” Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and … Read entire article »
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Fear
“The opposite of faith is not unbelief – it’s fear. That’s because both faith and fear are focused on the future, the realm of the unknown. Fear cancels out faith because it can freeze us in our tracks. Fear is overcome by faith in God who knows the future.” ~ DJ. I have blogged about fear before. It seems to be a persistant subject in my life and those around me. I was remembering when I was 18, that … Read entire article »
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Fear and Disappointments
I have had a hard few weeks. Emotionally, professionally, and personally, it seemed to be a lot of disappointments at once. Where I am not one to dwell on such things, when they keep happening, a new one piling up to the old ones, well then you start to let these pitfalls make you fearful. I was looking to my Bible, but then I saw a little book next to it. "Transforming Fear into Faith" The introduction was brilliant … Read entire article »
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Faith
“Faith is to believe what we do not see and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.” ~Augustine of Hippo ~~~~~~~ Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ~ Hebrews 11:1 … Read entire article »
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