09.12.08
Posted in God in general, creation at 6:31 pm by Administrator
The waiting is the hardest part sometimes. You see something coming at you and you know it is coming but you can do nothing much about you. Such is how things are with Hurricane Ike that is bearing down upon us. The winds are just beginning to hit us where I live though at the coast is starting to feel the brunt of the full force of this storm.
When I think about this in regards to my faith, the illustration of an upcoming hurricane is similar to our sinful nature. We can see it coming but often we can do nothing about it. Yet in this case, we are fortunate to have our God who protect us from the storm of our sin. 
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09.11.08
Posted in God Centered, creation at 5:32 pm by Administrator
I sit here waiting. I am waiting on a huge hurricane that is bearing down on where I live. I sit in the cross hairs of this storm. Yet the power and strength that is in this storm are awe inspiring. One thing about a hurricane is that often it can change everything. Hurricanes have a power and majesty to them that makes everyone stop and take notice. I look about today at what is going on. The frantic bustle and constant pursuit of our own needs came to a stop today as we had to take notice of this storm. We had to react. I think God does this with us too. He can stop us in our tracks and make us take notice.
Though I am scared about the effects that Hurricane Ike will have on my community, hurricanes always seem to bring out the best in people as people are forced to help one another. The aftermath of such a storm seems to work as a magnet for people wanting to help others. One thing I have learned is that the goodness of God often comes through things we view as bad or through intense times of trial.
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08.30.08
Posted in creation, relationship at 10:14 pm by Administrator
I read an amazing blog piece called Wait for It by Amy Gustafson. Her analogy in comparing the finding of her wedding dress and the “WOW” that comes from it with God’s relationship with her and her relationship with her fiancee. Her fiancee is Patrick Oden who is also a tremendous author and blogger. He is featured on my links.
I think that is what many of us have lost or are missing in our lives. We fail to see or experience the “WOW” that God places in our lives everyday and all across his creation.
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08.21.08
Posted in creation at 10:09 pm by Administrator
First, I am not a big fan of the literal creationist crowd. Many of these people seem a bit obtuse for my tastes.
But many people fail to realize how much faith it takes to believe in a theory such as evolution as propagated by Darwin and other evolutionist. We are to believe that through chance mutation and random occurences that life grew from primordial goo to complex organisms. All of you mathematicians figure out the odds of that one. It is greater than the odds than when you calculate the probability of all the factors that make the Earth habitable and conducive for life.
Now people cannot deny evolution on a micro scale. It has been proven that species do adapt to their environments such as Darwin’s finch example with changes that help them adapt to an environment. There is a lot of documented scientific research there. However, it is dificult to prove that one species has morphed into another on a grand scale.
Creation as a whole cries out that their is something that has imposed order upon it. Life proceeds along orderly paths (albeit messy) and follows cycles and patterns that are seen in nature all around us. Modern science has tried to give us chaos theory, by pioneers such as Edward Lorenz, but even random events seem to follow circular patterns (aka “the butterfly effect”). Inevitably if there was once all chaos, what acted upon the chaos to impose order? Creation cries out the need for a creator. Many call this theory “intelligent design”.
Modern day scientists and humanists and scientific atheists all tell us that God and science are mutually exclusive with one another, yet I find that look and understanding creation of all that is around us screams out the role of a Creator. I have faith in that.
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