Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Inspired Words
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Lack of Knowledge
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Wild Mustangs
Sunday, November 28, 2010
WHEN FAITH MEETS REASON
Pastor Rick Jackson
Elihu, younger than Job and his 3 friends, continues to reason with them and the crowd.
I. PROPER THINKING IS IMPORTANT [34:1-30]
Nowhere does the Bible ask us to commit intellectual suicide. Jesus said, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” In Isaiah 1:18 God says, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” The Christian faith is a reasonable faith [Rm. 12:1-2] and it is the only world view that makes total sense.
1. A Martyrs Complex Joins Bad Company [v. 1-9]
2. Consider the Hearers as well as the Objects of Discussion [v. 10-20]
3. The Greatness of the Almighty should give you Pause [v. 21-30]
II. PROPER SPEAKING IS IMPORTANT [34:31-35:13]
1. With Humility [34:31-34]
2. With Knowledge [34:35-35:3]
3. With Understanding [35:4-13] of God’s Transcendence
III. PROPER PERSONAL APPLICATION IS IMPORTANT [35:14-16]
1. God does Know- Trust Him [v. 14]
Is. 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
2. Ignorance Often Imagines Falsely [v. 15]
3. Ignorance Often Speaks Long [v. 16]
“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear ignorant than to open it and remove all doubt”
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Question of the Week: Can you speak DNA?
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Q: Can you speak DNA? A: Whenever we hear a foreign language, we may not know what's being said, but we know it means something. It isn't gibberish. The words convey thoughts and meaning by an intelligent source. In recent times, scientists have discovered an unmistakable language within all living things. Like a miniature library, DNA stores piles of information in extraordinary molecules that specify the details of everything from the shape of flower petals to the color of your eyes. DNA resembles a language in many uncanny ways, as though a supremely intelligent Author and Life-Giver left His indelible message in every living thing. Using different combinations of four basic units, called nucleotides, DNA molecules can store all sorts of information, just like the dots and dashes of Morse code, or the binary numbers in computers. The four nucleotides are combined into codes for twenty chemicals known as amino acids. By rearranging these twenty "letters of the genetic alphabet," God designed the language so that it could produce all the proteins that living things need—humans alone have over 100,000 proteins. Continue reading to learn more about DNA, God's language of life. News to Note Quick Look Monster of the depths: Great sea depths have been hiding an ancient creature. Is it Leviathan? Read more. We've discovered an alien: No, the "alien planet" isn't home to alien life (as far as we know); according to astronomers, the planet itself is a veritable outsider in not only its own solar system, but in our entire galaxy. Read more. Cranberries: icons of evolution?: No doubt many News to Note readers ate cranberries this week, as the small fruit plays a big role in the traditional Thanksgiving holiday dinner in the United States. So should we have given thanks to evolution for the cranberry? Read more. And Don't Miss . . . Biblical Authority DevotionalsAnswers ... with Ken Ham radio programAfter EdenNetwork with Us!
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Friday, November 26, 2010
The Foolishness of Comparing
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
The Pilgrims
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
A THANKSGIVING PRIMER
Pastor Rick Jackson
1. An Acknowledgement of Benefits [v. 12]
2. An Acceptance of Conditions [v. 13]
3. An Acquisition of Responsibility [v. 14]
4. An Understanding of Motivation [v. 15]
5. An Undertaking of Position [v. 16]
6. An Understanding of Gratitude [v. 17]
7. A Passion for Prayer [v. 17]
8. A Passion for Righteousness [v. 18a]
9. A Passion for Public Worship [v. 18b-19a]
10. A Passion for Praise [v. 19b]
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Biblical Sarcasm
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Monday, November 22, 2010
A Person, Not a Thing
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
WHEN FAITH MEETS FAITH
Pastor Rick Jackson
There is a difference of opinion concerning Elihu amongst Christians. Some claim him to be like Job’s 3 friends and another tool of the Devil while others believe him to be an earnest youth, not perfect, but certainly a tool of God. Count me as one of the latter for several reasons.
1) Elihu is sensitive to Job’s suffering
2) Elihu claims God is his source of wisdom- not age, intelligence or experience
3) when God rebukes Job’s 3 friends he does not rebuke Elihu
I. ELIHU’S INTRODUCTION [32]
1. His Wrath [v. 1-3]
2. His Restraint [v. 4-6]
3. His Inspiration [v. 7-22, 1 Corinthians 2:11]
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
II. ELIHU’S EXPLANATION [33:1-11]
1. From the Heart [v. 1-3]
2. From Commonality [v. 4-7]
3. From Paying Attention [v. 8-11]
III. ELIHU’S THEOLOGY [33:12-33]
1. God is Worthy [v. 12-13, Romans 3:4]
…yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Is. 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
2. God is Working [v. 14-25] Esp. v. 18 cf. II Cor. 12:7-10
3. God is Waiting [v. 26-33]
Hebrews 12 teaches that there are 3 ways to meet the chastening hand of God
1) despise it [v. 5] as though God was not involved in it
2) faint under it [v. 5] be a quitter
3) be exercised by it [v. 11]
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Question of the Week: Why is the age of the earth such a big deal to secularists?
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Q: Why is the age of the earth such a big deal to secularists? A: Increasingly, when the media write reports about Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum, they often don't mention the scientific points we present in our rebuttal of evolution, but instead state something like this (these words appeared in our local newspaper): The Creation Museum employs scientists of its own but has been criticized by the larger scientific community for positions it takes that conflict with mainstream scientific belief. For example, the museum contends the Earth is 6,000 years old, rather than about 4.5 billion. It also shows humans living at the same time as dinosaurs, which most scientists say never happened.Why is the age of the earth such a big issue with secular scientists and the media? And why is it that after biblical creationists have written so many books and scientific peer-reviewed papers that contradict the supposed billions of years for the age of the earth/universe, and expose the fallible dating methods devised by man, secularists still scoff? Well, here's the bottom line: for secularists to even postulate the idea of evolution, they have to also postulate an incomprehensible amount of time (billions and billions of years) so that the universe and life might have enough time to evolve. Even with billions of years, though, evolution is impossible. Mathematically and scientifically. But secularists aggressively promote billions of years to make evolution a plausible idea. Learn more in a letter from Ken Ham, president and CEO of AiG–U.S. News to Note Quick Look The tree of gut bacteria: Although we may not often think of it, none of us are ever alone—we all have bacteria both on and in our bodies that, among other things, help us to digest food. But is this evidence for evolution? Read more. Neanderthal whippersnappers: Did Neanderthal children grow up more quickly than the rest of us? Read more. Also: Biblical Authority DevotionalsAnswers ... with Ken Ham radio programAfter EdenNetwork with Us!
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