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Devo for week of April 13, 2009

Tue, 04/14/2009 - 9:22am — john
Good morning one and all, hope you had a great weekend.  Wow Easter 2009!! Where does the time go, hopefully your Easter was filled with family, friends, food and lots of fun, hopefully it was filled with “Jesus” and worship to Him. I wanted to share a thought from the book “ A Gentle Thunder”.

Call It Grace

Being made right with God by his grace, we could have the hope of receiving the life that never ends.

Titus 3:7 (NCV)

You may be decent. You may pay taxes and kiss your kids and sleep with a clean conscience. But apart from Christ you aren't holy. So how can you go to heaven?

Only believe. Accept the work already done, the work of Jesus on the cross.

Accept the goodness of Jesus Christ. Abandon your own works and accept his. Abandon your own decency and accept his. Stand before God in his name, not yours.

It's that easy? There was nothing easy about it at all. The cross was heavy, the blood was real, and the price was extravagant. It would have bankrupted you or me, so he paid it for us. Call it simple. Call it a gift. But don't call it easy.

Call it what it is. Call it grace.

  Hope you have a GREAT week and don’t forget Grace.

Shalom

Scott Shipman
Christian Campus Fellowship
102 East Lyndale Ave
812-882-1261

Comments

Tue, 04/14/2009 - 2:06pm — Anonymous

Jesus

Nicely written and straight to the point. Christians should take note. Other faiths should be recognized too; the Jewish faith; Islam; Hindu; Buddhism; even obscure little understood religions.

I'm idealistic enough to believe that the basic tenet of all religions is to live in peace and for people to survive. This tenet should also apply to the non-religious.

QUESTION-- Is it Gods Will for the earth to be warming?

Science says the earth has gone through many periods of warming and icing. They even think that the earth had no water in the beginning. And when it did accumulate water there was on big super-continent Pangaea I think was called.

Could God's creation have actually been when man and his environment was created?

Come to think of it the Bible account of creation does allow that the earth and stars were created before man. Hmmm.

Any ideas?

Ron Ackman

Fri, 04/17/2009 - 6:31pm — john

Water

In the beginning God (Elohim meaning more than one) created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Genesis 1:1, 2)

It appears that there was water.

Most scientists try to prove that God is not and do that by throwing a lot of stuff against the wall to confuse people.

Their main goal is money.

It appears that scientists believe that there were several single continents on earth and they all broke apart and then reformed again just to break apart once more.

I cannot justify this belief since every part of the earth is covered with plates that are supposed to be sliding; for a single continent to form all of the plates that they write and talk about would need to stack on top of one another to form a single continent then they would need to slide off of one another to break it apart.

John R. Stanczak

Wed, 04/15/2009 - 12:37am — john

Religions

The Pangaea theory is one that states that all present continents were once together and collectively known as a 'super-continent' called a Pangaea. ...another theory is Rodinia, formed about 1.1 billion years ago during the Proterozoic era and it is theorized that it was the second to last super continent.

library.thinkquest.org & Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

These ideas of scientist are simply theories with no facts to back them up or prove the theories true. I have no belief that any super continent has ever existed.

There are few actual religions, most are either philosophies or cults. Only religions that claim a God is a religion.

As far as global warming God set nature in motion and it both warms at times and cools at times and as far as I understand it all of God's works are within nature's boundaries.

As far as water on the earth it states in the Christian bible as well as the Jewish writings that the earth was without form or the surface was not solid and was moving as the water flowed. This does not necessarily point to an earth of seas as it could be an atmosphere of vapor prior to the beginning of life creation on earth.

John R. Stanczak

Tue, 04/21/2009 - 10:59am — Anonymous

Pangea and Rodinia

This may sound crazy but I want to suggest its possibility anyway.

Suppose the early earth was dry and it joined by collision or simply a slow merge with a water world (would have needed to be much smaller since water is a small percentage of the total mass of the world)(it could have been out there as it is a fact that comets have much ice in their composition). .

BTW scientists suspect the moon was created by a violent collision to the earth throwing out massive debris which collected to form the moon.

If a dry earth joined with a large amount of water its possible only part would be dry land and then slowly by gravity slide to the center and what the water couldn't cover become the continents.

I also wonder if continental plate tectonics (sp?) movement may have something to do with temperature differences between the deep ocean floor and the magma which is close.

Plate boundaries as I understand are almost all located in the oceans.

Physics will tell you that something cold when heated will crack usually. Any other theories out there?

Ron Ackman

Tue, 04/21/2009 - 12:25pm — john

Creation

I don't believe that scientists created the planet and I doubt if they know anymore about it than we do.

God said that the planet was completely covered by water and later God separated the waters to form land. God did not push continents into a pile to make one continent.

Actually there are no people who know any of this so people must rely on the bible as a constance source of understanding.

Even at the time of creation the continental base was there which covers the heavy metal core of the earth which is why lava flows are not highly ratio active and why they do not destroy everything living on the earth.

The land masses may rotate causing cracks but I cannot see how they could ever slide around the earth to form a single continent then break apart and slide around to form many continents just to slide back to for a single one again.

John

Tue, 04/21/2009 - 7:01pm — Anonymous

CreationII

Well I am not one to question Gods word but I am sure things that take eons of our time obviously are entirely possible in Gods timeline.

And if a deluge of water on a hot earth may have created the vapor and even the movement of the surfaces of a still not solid earth. Supposedly the earth is continually cooling from the hot temperatures of the beginning.

You know asteroid strikes could move the semi solid face of the earth to distances we can't comprehend too.

Any Scientists reading this?

Ron A

Wed, 04/22/2009 - 7:56am — john

Time

I don't see time as an argument as time is not a fact. Time is more like an excuse for not having facts.

Everything that I have read always concerns time when the facts are either very weak or made up; The bible gives us a time-line for creation of life on earth but does not give a time-line for universal creation. The scientists' time-lines always involves millions and billions of years but never 200 years; why, as I see it, is that nobody can disprove anything a billion years ago by fact but only by more guessing, two hundred years ago would be provable one way or another so it is not used.

The time-line starts when the bible says that God moved over the face of the earth and the earth was void and without form. Now we can only assume that this means that the earth did not appear as it does today but it does not specify anything else.

I find it unlikely that the moon came from the earth as I have read many things pointing toward it being captured by the earth's gravity which is more likely.

If the moon was blasted off of the earth as liquid rock then why is it round and not irregular in shape as any splashed melted anything would be when it more or less instantly cooled by super cold temperatures?

I do not believe that the core of the earth or any other planet is cooling as the shear weight of the planet being compacted by gravity would maintain a certain amount of heat from this compression. I believe that the cooling had completed by the most part prior to life being created.

Scientists write about all of the suns that have exploded and imploded but nobody has every witnessed anything like this happening since people have been alive, scientists write about black holes sucking in things that disappear down some vortex but nobody has ever witnessed any of this.

John R. Stanczak