6 kids go to Bible Camp

6 campers plus Alexis (too young to be a camper) Went with Angie to Sharon Bluff Bible Camp this week. One was not from our church, so we are hoping she may be an eventual convert. It is Mark's good friend Heaven. The other 5 campers are from our church and one is a Christian. We are very excited.

I hope they have fun and learn a lot.

Iowa football coach murdered at school

The highly profiled killing today of a top-rated and popular football coach in small-town Iowa brings to the forefront the problems young people face today in a Godless school system. The youth, a 24 year old former player for the successful coach, apparently was disgruntled with the coach and has since "fallen through the crack" with the law. He had encounters with the law in the past week.

This young man decided that his life had no value. The evolutionary theory he was surely taught tells us he is a highly evolved primate with no goal except to survive. Live beyond self preservation and self gratification has little meaning. Self loathing is the dark side of the hedonism of moral relativism that comes from the evolutionary theory and junk science people are taught today from Freud to many others.

Only when we turn to God and love ourselves and each other because of God's love and mighty creation will we not turn to destroy others in our self-pity.

Why are we so busy?

Why are we such a busy society that we fail to do what God would have us do? We know the devil goes around and tries to distract us. He knows our weaknesses and we simply fall into his traps. We get too busy to pray for God's help in fighting this trend. The very thing we need the most is what gets left out so we cannot overcome the problems. It reminds me of Paul's struggle in his letter to the Corinthians. I do what I don't want and I don't do what I want. How are we going to live as Christ did? Only first by taking a step back, organizing our life, and going forward in Him fully and prayerfully.

Hebrews 5:9

Hebrews 5:9 is worth reading and meditating upon. We see from this verse that Jesus is the source of eternal salvation of those who obey Him. Obeying anyone is not a hot word today. Christ is no exception. We want to be saved, but we don't want to have to obey anything. However, to become saved in the first place, we must obey Jesus. Salvation is possible without it. We begin by obeying the gospel. This truth, taught in 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9, tells us that we are separated from God eternally if we fail to obey it. However, today many religious people who are good moral believers fail to accept this. They say we simply must believe the Gospel, not obey it. Give consideration for this.
In Him.

Tiller's Death

We now see the major mainstream media making attacks and accusations against "anti-abortion" people like me. The media would never do such investigating if one of our people were killed by the pro-abortion side. Now the media is trying to find out what groups helped lead this man to do such a crime. While I don't condone this behavior, I was by no means saddened by Tiller's death. The man murdered 60,000 babies and I do not want to know what his eternity is now. It was just too bad the man did not have a chance to repent before he died. Let us pray for healing in our land and forgiveness of those who have had part in abortions and in killing those who perform them.