Prophesy Fulfilled

The first pope, Peter, is known for many things. Not much attention is given, unfortunately, to his prophetic writings recorded in 2 Peter that we see fulfilled today. In this scripture Peter foretells that eventually 1) men will abandon the belief that the heavens and the earth were formed by the 'word of God' and that 2) the current formation of the earth is a result of a worldwide flood, not uniformitarian geology, as is taught in most university geology classes today. Peter believed in creation by the spoken word of God and that the earth was 'formed out of water and by water'. Here are his words ....

"Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.' For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water." 2 Peter 3:3 - 6 New American Standard Bible

Where Is The Evidence?

My family spends a fair amount of time at Hodges Dairy Farm (pictured right) in Charlotte. Whenever there I'm often struck by the beauty of God's creation. The Apostle Paul said 'the heavens declare the glory of God'. Unfortunately many don't make the connection because they've been taught a naturalistic view of the origin of earth and life. Yet this view has no hard evidence to support it ...

"We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what means. We are told , often enough, that the doctrine is founded upon evidence, and that indeed this evidence 'is henceforward above all verification, as well as being immune from any subsequent contradiction by experience'; but we are left entirely in the dark on the crucial question wherein, precisely, this evidence consists." - John Wolfgang Smith

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- John Wolfgang Smith. Mathematician and physicist. Oregon State University. Teilhardism and The New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the The Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Tan Books & Publishers, Inc., page 2.

Picture of the Day - Benjamin and Josh

This is a summer trip picture of Joshua playing with his second cousin, little Benjamin.

Uncle Charlie and Dad

This past Saturday my Uncle Charlie (pictured right) passed away. My Uncle Charlie and my dad found each other later in life. They did not know each other during their younger years because my dad was abandoned at birth, being left on the doorstep of Falmouth Baptist Church in Massachusetts. Later on in life the two found each other.

Reading my Uncle Charlie's obituary was interesting. Both my dad and my Uncle Charlie were navy men. The obituary stated that my dad and Uncle Charlie had a business together in the 1970s (when I was between the age of 7 and 17). Apparently they provided radio receivers to hotels and hospitals. I never knew that.

Life Is Good

This past Sunday afternoon as Jennie was heading out the door she announced that the Sunday evening meal was going to be cereal. I was a little bummed out until a few hours later when I was shoveling Frankenberry into my face.

It was a fun dinner. The kids were excited because we usually don't get the unhealthy cereals and also, for years, I'd described to them my favorite childhood cereal: Count Chocula. Even Jennie was mildly amused, enjoying her crunchy treat (likely well coated with non-nutritive cereal varnish). On bowl two, as I was finishing up the Count Chocula induced chocolaty milk, I was thinking about enjoying life and God's blessings.

Here are a few ...

* Count Chocula and Frankenberry.

* The Red Sox winning their division.

* The Red Sox ending the season with a better record than the Yankees.

* The Red Sox making the playoffs.

* Cool weather and fall football.

* Watching Josh enjoy fall football, pre-game jitters and all.







* Watching Hannah cheer for her brother and finding her niche in the 'heavy lifting' department.











* Enjoying a beautiful fall day at the farm.

* Enjoying Caleb enjoying Prophet.


* Finding solitude in the woods and communing with God on a cool fall night.

"a God who intended to create beings like us"

"the odds against a universe like ours emerging out of something like the big bang are enormous....I think clearly there are religious implications."

"it would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us."

- Physicist Stephen Hawking

1) Stephen Hawking, quoted in John Boslough, Masters of Time: Cosmology at the End of Innocence (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1992) 55.
2) Hawking, A Brief History of Time, 127.

Step of Faith

One of the basic tenents of Christianity is the belief that God answers prayer. The Bible teaches that God is powerful and prayer makes a difference. Here is an excellent prayer from James Emery White's book A Search for the Spiritual that anyone can start with .....

"God, I am not even sure that I believe you're there listening to this, but if you are, I want to find you. I really do want to know the truth. If you exist, please show yourself to me."