I like it ... would say not hugely better than last one (because the last one is very good too) but do find it a little easier on the eyes... blessings, alex
Increasingly over the years the church broadly speaking has been portayed as out of touch or behind the times or not relevant to peoples needs and people wants. There is however one important point we are missing when we talk about the relevance of the church to society. We generally always think first about number 1 ... "whats in it for me" and this is particularly true in today self promoting, self seeking society. BUT the first question we should ask is "how relevant is the church to God !" After all - it was God who invented the church and started it all off - what is HIS view on the relevance of the church. The answer to this question is that the church is of supreme relevance to God - because its is the ONLY way we can come to God... by becoming part of the church, the universal body of Christ. PLEASE NOTE : becoming part of THE church is NOT the same as joining an organisation that hold religious meetings in a building. Many who go weekly to religoius meetings are not part of the church of Jesus Christ because they simply have never come to a saving relationship with Jesus. NO church organisation can save a hell-bound sinner - only Jesus can and if we come to Him and commit our lives to Him He saves us there and then and we BECOME part of the church - which is made up of people all over the world who belong to Him and can truly call Him "Lord"!
Church (in the correct sense) is totally relevant to God because its how He saves people - and God loves people and wants them to be saved ! - church exists because it is designed by God, built by God and relevant to Him!
"Everyone who is seriously interested in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe—a spirit vastly superior to man, and one in the face of which our modest powers must feel humble." Albert Einstein
"Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy." Charles Darwin,Life and Letters, 1887, Vol. 2, p. 229
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." Calvin,Calvin & Hobbes
"Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century." Dr.Michael Denton,'Evolution, A Theory in Crisis' page 358
"I cannot admit that, with regard to the origin of life, science neither affirms nor denies Creative Power. Science positively affirms Creative Power. It is not in dead matter that we live and move and have our being, but in the creating and directing Power which science compels us to accept as an article of belief." Lord Kelvin, Father of Thermodynamics and modern Physics.
"Now imagine 10E50 blind persons [that’s 100,000 billion billion billion billion billion people—standing shoulder to shoulder, they would more than fill our entire planetary system] each with a scrambled Rubik cube and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling [random variation] of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial soup here on Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order." Sir Fred Hoyle,Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University
"In other words, it's Natural Selection or a Creator. There is no middle ground. This is why prominent Darwinists like G. G. Simpson and Stephen Jay Gould, who are not secretive about their hostility to religion, cling so vehemently to natural selection. To do otherwise would be to admit the probability that there is design in nature—and hence a Designer." G. S. Johnston,The Genesis Controversy, Crisis, p. 17, May 1989
"If we need an atheist for a debate, I go to the philosophy department. The physics department isn't much use." Robert Griffiths, Winner of the Heinemann Prize in mathematical physics. Robert Jastrow, 'God and the Astronomers' (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978), 116.
"No matter how large the environment one considers, life cannot have had a random beginning. Troops of monkeys thundering away at random typewriters could not produce the works of Shakespeare, for the practical reason that the whole observable universe is not large enough to contain the necessary monkey hordes, the necessary typewriters, and certainly the waste paper baskets required for the deposition of wrong attempts. The same is true for living material." Professor Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space, p. 148.
"It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'" Dr. Arthur H. Compton, Nobel Laureate (Physics).
"Evolutionary scientists know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing." G.K. Chesterton,Writer, philosopher
Evolutionist, left wing activist and famous author of the "I Robot" series of books, the late Dr. Isaac Asimov was working as Professor at Boston University School of Medicine in 1970. He wrote an article at that time called "In the game of energy and thermodynamics you can't even break even." which appeared in the Smithsonian Institute Journal, June 1970. On page 10 he stated “… and in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe." Asimov clearly recognises and admits that the most orderly and complex structure in the whole universe is the human brain. Is it not incredible indeed that within this 3 pound mass there is the capacity to think, love, hate, appreciate beauty, understand morality, to laugh, to feel joy… the ability to design spacecraft, to understand mathematics, to create novels, to sing, to worship etc etc. Yet is it not even more incredible that an intelligent person like Asimov thinks this incredible brain with more COMPLEXITY and ORDER than anything in the known universe was produced by mindless SIMPLE non-intelligent chemicals and DISORDER. In other words Isaac Asimov truly believed that if you leave a puddle of chemicals long enough it makes Isaac Asimov's brain all by itself !
Let me say - I personally don’t have enough faith to be an atheist. When I look at the evidence all around me I have to accept that what the Bible says is true.... "I am fearfully and wonderfully made" (Psalms 139:14). Asimov shows he is part of the ranks of those who "professing themselves wise” have become fools" (Romans 1:22)
Atheist and staunch evolutionist, the late Carl Sagan, wrote a book called "Contact" in which astronomers searching for intelligent life in outer space, discover a radio signal sending a stream of prime numbers(numbers which can only be divided by themselves or 1 – for example 1,3,5,7,11,13,17 and so on). Although radio waves occur naturally, they books characters conclude the obvious - that this could only be sent from an intelligent source. The obvious facts of course, as everyone knows, is that an intelligent message can ONLY come from an intelligent source. Yet Sagan died actually believing that the simplest single cell life form, which has the equivalent information of 1000 sets of encyclopaedia Britannica, actually turned up by all by itself and after turning up by itself then changed itself into a human being using nothing more than the good old weather and millions of magical years - no intelligence required ! (Sagan probably never realised he had staked his eternal soul on this nonsense and sadly will have an eternity to reflect on his deluded beliefs)
If you looked up in the sky and saw a smoke trail spelling the words "happy birthday mum" you would not assume the wind had produced it - you would realise someone took a small plane and wrote it with design and purpose. Do you really believe 1000 encyclopaedias of intelligent information actually can make itself with no intelligence required? (and that’s just a single cell - we have millions of different types to make our skin, brain, bones, eyes, blood, hair (for those who have it !) and so on)
The clear truth is that evolution is nothing more than secular religion masquerading as science.
Design demands a designer, creation demands a creator and that is why those who deny the obvious evidence staring them in the face, though they profess themselves wise are in reality fools!
Rom 1:22 Professing to be wise, they became fools Rom 1:23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
Recently a book called 'the god delusion' was written by a professor Richard Dawkins as an attenmpt to 'show' that God does not exist. Of course, anyone claiming such would have to have all knowledge about all things across all ages and be able to check all places at the same time to state this as true. Yet sadly many people think because the man is educated that he is in some way qualified in such matters.
The apostle Paul captures this attitude perfectly in the above scriptures, that men in their arrogance shake their fists at their creator and claim to know better than God our creator. True wisdom about the nature and existance of God comes to those who humble themsleves and are prepared to admit they DONT know everything about everything - and accept that their opinions may be wrong !
Rom 1:20 For the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being realized by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.
We are without excuse if we reject the obvious - that God made us to know Him.
This is a good point Alan. The CEV(Contemporary English Version)Bible translates the Behemoth as a HIPPO! However, it says that the beast moves its tail like a cedar tree. To have a tail like a cedar tree means this beast must have been much bigger then a Hippo.
In Job 41, the CEV also translates the Leviathan as a crocodile. I personally don't agree with this and on the whole fond the CEV to be a weak and watered down translation (more suitable for children).
It was good to have some fun and relax in the church building. Play the nintendo wii on the BIG SCREEN with the BIG SOUND was great. We will have to do it again some time.
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