Tonight at the home fellowship, we studied a passage of the Bible that has probably been the most meaningful portion of scripture in my personal life, Philippians 2:1-11. The study audio, in English and Romanian, is available for your listening here, and I hope it blesses you in your walk of faith.
Category: Commentaries on life and faith
Don’t honor “mother earth” — it’s full of His Glory
Romans 1:18-25 gives a biblical perspective on the veneration of the planet this “Earth Day”:
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
“Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.”
So laughworthy, these atheists
So, now there is a group of atheists in America petitioning for the “National Day of Prayer” to be replaced with a “National Day of Reason.” How silly. Atheism is the most illogical, unreasoned belief system in the world and in the history of the world. And they pretend they believe in “reason?” Atheists are no better acquainted with reason than they are with God.
Easy to Prove a Negative
Okay, so if you’ve debated atheists long enough, you’ve several times heard them whine about how you’re being unfair in the debate by requiring them to provide evidence for their beliefs, because, as they like to put it, “you can’t prove a negative” or “you can’t prove something DOESN’T exist.”
It’s nonsense, though. It is actually quite easy to prove a negative assertion, if that negative assertion is true. I wouldn’t break an intellectual sweat trying to sufficiently prove to you that there is no pink elephant sitting on my couch, there is no person on earth who is 40 feet tall, or that there is no Santa Claus or Easter bunny. It would be easy to find empirical evidence sufficient to persuade all but the most delusional of people that those negative assertions are entirely true, and not just provable, but proven.
The atheist’s problem isn’t that he is helplessly painted into a corner trying to defend a negative assertion–the non-existence of someone. His problem is that his negative assertion not only lacks supporting evidence, but is at odds with an infinite amount of evidence to the contrary. His problem is that the reason he cannot prove God isn’t there, is that he is simply wrong.
Today’s evolutionist response exposes the cloudy-mindedness of atheism
So in response to my recent comments on the implausibility of the theory of macroevolution, an atheist who identified himself as having a doctorate wrote, claiming that if I accept microevolution, then I must accept macroevolution, because they are essentially the same thing, being only different in magnitude. Now, that isn’t true, because they are entirely different in process, not just scope. Microevolution happens from one generation to the next in creatures as a result of rearrangement or loss of existing genetic information. For macroevolution to exist, there would have to be ADDED genetic information over the generations, which is impossible, hasn’t ever happened, and is not happening in the modern world. It must be accepted on faith alone, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
But even if the doc were right and the only difference between micro and macro evolution was the amount of change that happens and the amount of time it takes, to suggest that this means accepting one proves the other exposes the cloudy thinking necessary for one to become an atheist. It is like saying, if you believe there are men who can run 8 miles per hour and men who can jump 6 feet off the ground, then you must accept that there are men who can run faster than an indy car and men who can jump over the clouds, because the process of running and jumping is the same, only the magnitude changes.
Thought for the day
The world has never known a belief system more illogical than the evolution of species from a common ancestor by chance happenings apart from God’s design. Nor has the world ever seen a belief system whose adherents were more belligerent and arrogant than the atheists who defend the implausible hypothesis of macroevolution.
Go for the Gold
Sometimes Christians say, “Just getting into heaven will be enough for me. I don’t seek a crown or reward from the Lord when I get there.” But Jesus, along with every New Testament writer, admonished us strongly NOT to think that way. We are told we should seek heavenly rewards, and one strong example of that is the parable Jesus told in Luke 19. That passage is the focus of the message I brought this morning at the church my Dad is pastor of here in Kentucky. You can hear the audio of that message here.
Fulfill your ministry
And say to Archippus, “See that you fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord.”
–Colossians 4:17
Reading Colossians a few days ago, this verse gripped me. There in the closing of the book is Paul’s admonishment of a servant of Christ who apparently was dropping the ball. God had given him an open door to serve in some form of ministry, and he, for whatever reason, wasn’t being faithful to complete the work he had been given. So he needed a word of encouragement.
The verse gripped me, because I realized how often I, as well as many others, have needed to receive a word like that. Look at your life for a moment, and see if you need it, too, today.
The ministries that we do, which are jobs that the Lord Himself has given us, are works of service for His glory that He expects us to fulfill. He provides the grace, strength, guidance, stamina, and resources necessary to fulfill the task, as we turn to Him. So see that you get to the work He gives you without stall, without delay, and without giving up. And finish well.
Is there a ministry God has told you to start that isn’t started, even though He already opened the door? Then get to it.
Is there a ministry that you are no longer giving your whole heart to, and now you are slacking off because of disappointment or discouragement? Then get back to it. If He wants you to stop, He will close that door or open another that He asks you to go through. And He will be faithful to see you through on the job for as long as He desires.
Is there a ministry you have quit, or are about to quit, without His first releasing you from the task? Then make sure—see to it—that you keep on the job until He takes you off it.
“Fulfill your ministry.” (2 Timothy 4:5)
The Atheist’s Lie
Pretty often, including one instance today, when atheists write me in response to things I’ve written or said on this blog or elsewhere, and when they are forced to admit that disproving God’s existence would be a lost cause for them, they resort to telling me that they just can’t believe in God because of “the lack of evidence” that He is there. Now, they aren’t just ignoring the obvious fact that the evidence of the reality of God is both infinite and omnipresent. They are also asking me to believe that they are people who intellectually demand evidence of something before they will believe in it. That, though, is simply a lie. They are lying to themselves, and to me, when they tell me they want evidence of something before they will believe it. Because, to a fault, they all believe in things like: 1) The Big Bang Theory; 2) The evolution of species; 3) Humanity descending from ancestors in the animal kingdom; 4) The earth’s presence for billions of years prior to lifeforms being on it; 5) the continents of the earth having separated from what was originally one land mass; 6) the moon having originally been a piece of the earth that spun off from it millions of years ago, and other such things. And there is not now, nor has there ever been, any evidence at all that any of those things are true. They have accepted all of those beliefs on faith alone. They want me to believe that they don’t believe in God because they “can’t” instead of just that they “won’t.” But I don’t believe them. Because there is also no evidence of their skepticism. They gullibly believe any ideas their atheist forerunners invented to explain the origins of the universe and of life, regardless of how unfounded those beliefs are.
Roe vs Roe
Help Haitians in Need
Many are the sources where someone can help the suffering in Haiti with donations, but if you haven’t already found one, here is one that can be recommended: Samaritan’s Purse, is a truly Christian ministry that helps the needy and those facing tragedy with Christlike love and mercy, material help, and the gospel of Christ so that they might live forever.
Not above ANYBODY’s paygrade to understand this
As these ultrasound pictures of babies in the womb show, a person is a person before birth, and abortion is wrong. That isn’t debatable. It isn’t in dispute. Next week is the anniversary of America’s Supreme Court forcing the country to accept abortion as a “right” in 1973. The result: our country is now unsurpassed by any event in world history in the extent of violence and bloodshed of innocents. Thanks be to God, many still don’t endorse the slaughter. May God continue to have mercy on us. We certainly don’t deserve it. But we need it. And may God grant us change, so that someday in the future, we might celebrate the reinstatement of the right of human beings to live in our land.
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