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The Awesome Programming of the Creator

Sword Lily by Melanie from Pixabay

“Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ” (Luke 12:24-30)

One of the greatest and simplest demonstrations of the Creator’s design is that of the simple seed.

Whether it is the seed of a weed or a tree or a flower, in every case, there is simply no explanation for the origin of a seed.

There is no “natural selection” process that has taken place here. Nor is there any “will” of a plant to survive which could ever explain where all the information came from that is locked into every seed upon the earth.

There is no reason for a seed to try to “improve” upon itself. Which the evolutionist wishfully dreams must drive such simple organisms to ascend up the evolutionary scale.

How could anyone ever make sense of the miracle that a simple seed could “evolve” into a beautiful rose?

Or even attempt to answer that great mystery: Which came first? The seed or the flower?!

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Are You Afraid to Die on Some “Doctrinal Hill”?

Peace monkey

I hear this a lot today. It is a very popular saying.

It is common to hear a brother in Christ say how he “does not want to die on some doctrinal hill”.

AS IF there is some danger of that anywhere today.

Very few leaders in the mainstream Evangelical church have ever had to face such a terrible death. Nor have they been willing to suffer for defending the faith.

Nor have most of the members of our local Evangelical churches ever been in any such terrible danger.

Because most are too busy tripping over each other while running away from the battle for truth.

Because most of my brothers and sisters in Christ are “lovers … not fighters”.

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The Total Sufficiency of the Blood of Christ

Deficiency Cloud by John Hain from Pixabay

“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” (Hebrews 13:20.21)

There is such an amazing amount of truth in this one verse.

But, right at this moment, I want to focus on part of it: the blood of the everlasting covenant.

Because it is the blood of Christ that is the basis of our salvation. And it is His blood that allows us to have fellowship with Him and to walk with Him daily.

And yet, it is this same blood that is counted as an “unholy thing” by the vast majority of those groups that call themselves “Christian” (Hebrews 10:29). Even groups who actually talk about and preach about the value of the blood of Christ!!

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Who Moved the . . . Bread of Life?

Bread Round by Webandi from Pixabay

I heard a sermon a while back given by Dr. DA Waite of The Bible for Today ministries out of Collingswood, New Jersey.

He was discussing the battle for the Masoretic Hebrew text and the Greek Textus Receptus. The texts that were the foundation of the Bible long before 1881. Which was the year that two men, Brooke Foss Wescott and Fenton John Anthony Hort, introduced a new text upon the world.

A text that would introduce corruption in the church by destroying confidence in the purity of God’s words.

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A “Tsunami Warning” for the U.S.

tsunami city by samhalder from pixabay

Over the years, it has become a bit of an obsession with me to watch footage of the Tsunami that hit Japan back in 2011. Especially now, with the new earthquake that just Japan around the first of this month.

There always seems to be a new video that has been released covering that 2011 tragedy which hit many of the eastern coastal towns.

This obsession is due, in part, to my fascination with the power of water. The ocean is both beautiful and terrifying. It cannot be underestimated.

And it causes me to think that the Japanese people were just unprepared for what took place. They trusted that the tsunami walls were built high enough to hold back the surge.

Yet, their entire lives were devastated in an instant. Lives that they had built, over many generations, were wiped out in just a few minutes.

So, I wonder how we, in the United States, would react if such a tragedy struck here?

How would we, who live right smack dab in the Midwest (for example), face such a disaster? We who live in the small towns and farm communities that generally don’t face any serious threat of earthquakes, floods, hurricane’s, Tsunami’s, or comet strikes.

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The Gift Rarely Opened

Frost and Snowflakes by Pezibear from Pixabay

“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” (II Corinthians 3:18)

As we grow in the Lord, we will have a deeper sense of our own failures, our own weaknesses, and of our own sinfulness.

This is in direct contrast to what we are often taught in our churches. As with the idea that we will become better and better and more aware of our own ability to overcome sin and temptation.

The young believer, who generally lacks experience and discernment, is very prone to this false way of thinking. Because successes are often easier and more dramatic in the lives of the young. Especially those who’ve come out of some deep experience of immorality, drugs, or rebellion. Some, even experiencing an immediate and outwardly-miraculous deliverance from sin, temptation, or addiction.

But, in the lives of older believers, this is not the normal experience.

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Contending with Spiritual “Kung Fu”

kung fu tiger by inspiredimages from Pixabay

Frankly, I think that most churches, regardless of the church, are staffed with leadership that don’t truly understand the need for the application of the Cross in their own live

Even while those same leaders preach of the Cross, taking up your Cross, bearing your own Cross, and a hundred other biblical phrases dealing with the Cross, they fail to understand what that truly means.

I know this is true.

Because, right now, I am preaching (in my own head) to a 19-year-old young man who was in desperate need of this information. Who didn’t believe he needed to hear it.

That young man was me.

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The Church “Tone” Police

Man finger on lips by Sammy-Sander

Bible churches having been changing their attitude toward truth, doctrine, and the defense of the faith.

That is not a charge that is easy for me to make. Believe it or not, I tend to resist such ideas.

I want to think the best thoughts about those who are in leadership. Not only of local church leadership, but also of those in our Christian universities and seminaries.

To give leaders and teachers the benefit of the doubt.

Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that our churches are consistently, though subtly, switching from proclaiming truth as their first priority to elevating experience, good works, and outward unity as their highest priority.

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