"While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life" (2 Corinthians 5:3-5).
Friday, March 16, 2012
The Truth Test
How do we know truth?
Law enforcement, juries, judges, media, schools and parents search for truth, but are they really?
The attorney who nearly always enters a “not guilty” plea, even when his client was caught in the act by cameras and there are multiple witnesses?
Even television stations or other news organizations who allows the source to “spin” a story?
The pastor or priest who teaches something he knows doesn’t agree with the Bible?
For centuries before us, people have tried to determine truth. The second chapter of my new book, Swallowed by LIFE, is titled “Truth Sleuth.” Many things in life are so important, we need to know the truth.
One of these things we should investigate thoroughly is what happens when our time on earth is over. Will we cease to exist, or will we enter somewhere else? Will we come back as bugs, animals or another person?
You could be surprised at some of the truth tactics used down through the centuries and the reliability of current methods such as the polygraph. But you also may be surprised how we determine truth about eternity.
To see some of the answers for determining truth read the book. But I'll give you some hints. If you want to know the truth about the eternal, look at the evidence, read witnesses' transcripts, weigh what you know and make a decision.
Jesus said, "I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6). That's where to start. But the book will help. It's available on amazon in several countries.
Swallowed by Life is available at http://amzn.com/1466200936
The Kindle version is http://amazon.com/swallowed-by-life-ebook/dp/B007BGCVSU/ref=sr_.1_3?s=books&ie+UTF8&qid=1330035854&sr+1-3
It is also available at www.barnesandnoble.com
Monday, March 5, 2012
A Speck in the Universe: Earth
Last night a Christian astronomer spoke at our church. He has a giant telescope and his photos of the universe have been published in some of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world.
Dr. Richard Hammer is a chemistry professor at Evangel University, and his work with astronomy began as a hobby. Now he’s teaching astronomy as well. He showed us several awesome photos and pointed out earth is only a little speck humankind can see through the windshield of our technology.
He reminded us David asked, “What is man that God is mindful of him?” Then Hammer pointed out the wonder that God does pay attention to us and Jesus came to earth to end death, the curse of sin, and to give us eternal life.
Last night after we returned,I read before going to sleep 1 John 3: 1-3: “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are the children of God and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.”
John says it all.
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