Living Alive

As summer began, I encouraged my listeners (readers, church members, family & friends) to serve someone this summer. Volunteer in your neighborhood, church or community.

One place a number of you enjoy helping is Winchester’s CCAP (Congregational Community Action Project) which offers a handful of ways to help others:

http://ccapwinc.org/volunteer

I know that the recent recession & current unemployment circumstances are still affecting many local families.

I’ve thought, “where would Jesus be?” right here & now. Not likely in the AC comfort of a local church, but out with the people in need.

So, come on, let’s get going! 100 degrees or 92, what’s the big difference? Let’s serve someone in Jesus’ name this summer.

Evolution? Creation? Which is it?

I know you’ve often asked yourself: “Self, which came first, the chicken or the egg?”

Certainly, believers know that God made animals, according to the book of Genesis.  God made them as grown animals, it would seem (Gen. 1 & 2).  So, the chicken came first, right?

Well, science may have answered it for us. Through research and the wonders of modern technology… the Bible appears to be right afterall.

Research scientists in England have published findings that show the egg’s shell could only be formed inside a chicken. So, the chicken first! That’s the only possible way.

The proof is in the protein. Ovocledidin-17 to be precise.

Wait, you say? You’re right, I’m no biologist. I’m a pastor. So don’t take my word for it.

Click (or cluck) on: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/07/14/2010-07-14_which_came_first_the_chicken_or_the_egg_the_chicken_researchers_say.html

It’s a fascinating story. But for me, just one more example of how science, physics, particularly astrophysics, and the human genome project are all “proving” God as Creator.

America Bless God!

That’s the better point of view, for me, rather than the reverse.

I hope the 4th of July – particularly with it being on a Sunday – would call you to bless God’s name, to give thanks!

Thank God for our great freedom. Bless God for all His gifts! Thank God for this land of plenty!

I bless God that He has ordained America for a holy purpose. Now wait, that doesn’t mean that we Americans are all Christians, or that we live for God all too faithfully. Not at all. But I believe, as our history demonstrates, that God’s hand has been upon our land since its founding (even before).

America is still “one nation, under God.”

For that to continue, though, means you & I must remain “under” God.

Have you recently submitted to living your life “under” God’s authority, in God’s will?

May you do so today & especailly this holiday weekend. So, we may all say, “America Bless God” !!