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3241) The Intelligent Design Movement

     One of the five classical proofs for the existence of God is the “Teleological Proof.”  This proof declares that the intricate design of the universe and everything in it looks like it was ‘designed,’ and could not have all assembled itself just by random chance.  Most people have heard of this approach.  Many people […]

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3226) God is Big

     In Ecclesiastes 5:2 Solomon says, “Do not be quick with your mouth; do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God.  God is in heaven and you are on earth.”  Or, we might say, “God is big and you are little, so show a little respect.”      Every once

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3190) A Garden Sleeping in My Hand

Faded, crumpled, shriveled seeds which now seem dead, will soon, under ‘June’s magic kiss,’ burst forth into beautiful flowers and gardens.  In the last line the poet has us imagine how we are able to hold in our hand the seeds that could grow a whole forest– ‘in my hand a forest lies asleep.’  The

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3187) No Santa, No God

     My wife and I never made a big deal about Santa Claus when our two children were small, so it wasn’t surprising when our son figured it out pretty early in life.  “Dad,” he said, “I think Mom is the one who buys all our Christmas presents and not Santa Claus.”  I congratulated

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3171) Is Anyone Else Out There?

“Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God”;  an article by Eric Metaxas , December 25, 2014, Wall Street Journal ——————————————–      In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: “Is God Dead?”  Many have accepted the cultural narrative that He’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain

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3101) Visualizing Christmas

     In three previous meditations I have expressed my enthusiasm for and appreciation of The John 10:10 Project (  https://thejohn1010project.com/  ).  I hope you have taken the time to view some of their 200 wonderful videos.  They specializing in portraying the wonders of God’s amazing creation, but they explore other subjects as well.  All

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3059) The Wood Wide Web

     You are able to read these words because you are connected to the World Wide Web.  Three-fourths of the world’s people are.  Therefore, you have the capability to contact any of these six billion people, anywhere in the world, in seconds, and communicate with them.  That is, of course, only one of the

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3013) A Detective Examines the Evidence for God

By John Stonestreet, August 31,2015 Blog at:  www.breakpoint.org      Standing on the porch of a locked house, rookie homicide investigator J. Warner Wallace peered into the living room.  He could see a man on the floor in a pool of blood, gun by his side.  Now the question he had to answer:  Was this

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3010) Behold, The Spider

      My wife does not like spiders.  In fact, she is so against spiders, that she does not even allow them in our house.  Whenever she sees a cobweb, she whisks it away with her extendable ceiling duster.  But what she does not realize is that every time she removes a spider’s web,

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2999) “The Voice of Thy Thunder”

Psalm 77:18 (King James Version) —  The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. ******************************** In that wonderful hymn “How Great Thou Art” we sing “I  hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed.”  While most of us want to be in

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