1. Two hydrogen atoms walk
into a bar. One says, "I've lost
my electron." The other says,
"Are you sure?" The first replies,
"Yes, I'm positive."
2. A jumper cable walks into
a bar. The bartender says,
"I'll serve you, but don't
start anything."
3. A sandwich walks into a bar.
The bartender says, "Sorry, we
don't serve food here."
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If you stop believing what your professor told you had to be true
and if you start thinking for yourself you may come to some
conclusions you hadn't expected. You may find the Bible makes
more sense than you thought or were told to think. Allow yourself
to be ruined, ruined with regard to what you always thought could
be true. Can you believe what you don't understand? You and I
believe everyday what we don't understand unless it comes to
the issue of salvation. - - - Dr. Woodrow Kroll
A man's home is his castle,
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It's a recognized fact that the only
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than their shoes is their parents!!!
Darwin's Black Box
ReplyDeleteHonest observers quickly realize that the
debate here over life's origins is not one
of science versus religion, but of science
versus science. Take the work of biochemist
Michael Behe, a professor at Lehigh
University. Initially, Behe accepted
Darwinist teachings. But then he began
reading articles questioning evolutionary
theories. He found the arguments compelling.
So he began to do research of his own.
In his book published ten years ago,
DARWIN'S BLACK BOX, he introduced
a concept he calls "irreducible complexity."
He argues that complex structures like
proteins cannot be assembled piecemeal,
with gradual improvement of function.
Instead, like a mousetrap, all the parts --
catch, spring, hammer, and so forth --
must be assembled simultaneously,
or the protein doesn't work.
Soon after the book was published,
its thesis was challenged by the leading
expert in America on cell structure,
Dr. Russell Doolittle at the University of
California. He cited a scientific study
supposedly disproving irreducible
complexity. Behe immediately researched
it and found it proved just the opposite:
It confirmed him. So Behe went back to
Dolittle. In a phone conversation, Doolittle
admitted he was wrong, but he has never
made a public retraction.
A mushroom walks into a bar and the bartender says, "We don't serve mushrooms here." The mushroom says,"Why not? I'm a fun guy." (fungi)
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Journey of Lament
ReplyDelete“Great Is Thy Faithfulness” is for me a song of lament. It is a favorite hymn of mine--one that immediately leads me to worship. But it is the worship of lamentation because of the associations I have with it. We sang the song at a funeral in lament of a world that is marked by suffering, and in worship of the God we trusted through its sting.
Worship leader and songwriter Matt Redman was in the United States shortly after the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. Leading worship in several churches in the weeks following, he was immediately struck by the powerful sermons that were being preached, biblically and eloquently expressing the heart of God to a shocked and vulnerable people. He was also struck by the distinct lack of songs he had on hand for worship in the midst of suffering. Where were the songwriters for such a time as this? Where were the poets and prophets to help the people of God find a voice in worship? Writes Redman, “As
songwriters and lead worshipers, we had a few expressions of hope at our disposal; but when it came to expressions of pain and lament, we had very little vocabulary to give voice to our heart cries.”(1)
Lamentation is a significant part of Scripture. Seventy percent of the psalmist’s words are words of lament. “Hear my prayer, O LORD,” he pleads, “let my cry for help come to you. Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly. For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers” (Psalm 102:1-3). Sadly dissimilar to many of our worship services, the writers of Scripture identify with the pain of the world and do not hold back in addressing it. Why would we not reach out with the same understanding?
I was at the funeral of a loved one when another mourner caught me with tears in my eyes and told me that God would not want me to cry. Her intentions were good; she meant to encourage me with the victory that
exists in the hope of the resurrection. But I desperately needed permission to lament, permission to look up at the Cross with the sorrow of Mary and the uncertainty of the centurion. I needed to be able to ask why with the force that was welling up inside me, even as I clung to the hope of the Son and my trust in the Father.
The season of Lent is a time to walk the labored steps of Jesus toward the agony of the Cross, the reality of injustice, and the despair of human death. While surely Christian pilgrims on the other side of the Cross are a people with many reasons to rejoice, we remain strangers in a foreign land, living within a world in pain, a world that is not as it was intended. While our songs of victory are essential for remembering resurrection as God’s final word, we are a people indelibly marked by the iniquitous sufferings of the Cross and the darkness of a cold tomb where God laid dead. Neither our worship nor our journeys can deny this if they are truly to lead
us to hope.
As Christians we can handle tears in our churches because we know that God will one day wipe away every tear from our eyes. We can be real about the fact that life is sometimes unfair, that we don’t always get the miracles we were asking for, that God sometimes has us walk down roads we’d rather not go down, but that God is still good and trustworthy despite all of it, and the journey itself is one we walk meaningfully with Christ. Thus, we can sing through the disorienting sting of cancer and unemployment and injustice, even as it moves us to reach out to those who are struggling and those who are oppressed in a fallen land. The message of the gospel is indeed powerfully relevant to a hurting world. For we serve a God who gives us permission to utter the words in the pit of our stomach, even as we follow the Son who uttered his: “I am deeply grieved, even to death,” he told his disciples. And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed, “My
Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not what I want but what you want.”
Jill Carattini is managing editor of A Slice of Infinity at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.
(1) Matt and Beth Redman, Blessed Be Your Name: Worshipping God on the Road Marked with Suffering (Ventura, CA: Regal, 2005), 34.
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People in Process
ReplyDeleteLee Iacocca once said, “The main thing in life is to keep the main thing, the main thing.” I don’t know about you, but I often find it hard to stay focused and to not get distracted by secondary (and often good) things.
My own deficiencies and restlessness are challenged by words like John Piper’s statement, “God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in Him” or Augustine’s well-known quote, “You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.” I am always learning to repose in God, and to seek to go further in the more reflective or contemplative life by setting my focus on God Himself.
Eugene Peterson speaks of our initial coming before God with the language of adoration and love, which unfortunately often falls into disuse or into limited use. The language we develop is one less centered in adoration and often focused on the self. Yet the focus of the psalmist is always on God Himself, his character,
qualities, attributes, and ways. The language is one of love, adoration, and appreciation--even in the midst of uncertainty or trouble.
The psalmist reminds us of the necessity of setting our focus and priorities. In any given day, we have to challenge our thinking in terms of how little (or how much) we actively contemplate God for who God is, and not for an answered prayer, a need, or an ongoing concern. After all, as A.W. Tozer said, the most important thing about us is our view of God.
In contrast to the very clear and pronounced weaknesses in worldly solutions to life’s needs and challenges, the kingdom Jesus came to proclaim is a glorious possibility and presence. This is why we are here; it is what we seek to advance; it must captivate our passions and our wills. During a recent trip, I was reminded of the amazing contrast of the enduring kingdom versus the short-term shelf-life of many of the “utopian” movements in history. The Nazis, the Communists, and any and all
pretentious systems inevitably crumble before the unshakeable kingdom of God. I have to remind myself that I pray today with the church across the ages and around the world: “Thy Kingdom come.”
As we gather physically or otherwise with believers in our time and across history, whether during the reflective season of Lent or the overwhelming events of Holy Week, we come as people in need, people with problems, wounds, issues, and concerns. And we are joined with other believers as people in process. We are souls on a journey. The salvation and full redemption of our bodies is yet to come, and until then, we press on in faith, hope, and love--yet dependent on grace, mercy, ongoing-forgiveness, and spiritual help.
As we begin this day, let us consciously fix our minds and hearts on Christ, his glorious being, his dynamic kingdom, and his compassionate love, keeping the main thing the main thing.
Stuart McAllister is vice president of training and special projects at Ravi
Zacharias International Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.
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