Allow me to commend to you the teaching and preaching ministry of J. Edwin Orr. http://www.JEdwinOrr.com

From the website: “Dr. J. Edwin Orr was born in Belfast in 1912 and concluded his work on earth in 1987. Professor Orr was passionately committed to Jesus Christ and dedicated his life to understanding and furthering the work of God – especially in revival and spiritual awakening. This website comes from the conviction that Dr. Orr has much to say to the Christian world today, because his message was a profoundly powerful, eloquent, and accurate explanation of what the Bible says about revival, awakening, and the deeper Christian life.”

I’ve added his “What Does It Mean to be Born Again?” sermon to the Key Sermons page, available from the list over on the right –>

I wish I could give it to every Christian I know, and everyone even considering becoming a Christian. I hope you will take the time to be blessed by the message and maybe visit the site to hear/see more of Dr Orr.

Posted: December 2nd, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Posts will be light over the weekend. The Mrs. and I are visiting family in the hills of northeast Ohio. Sure is pretty up here, a nice break from the flat heat of Florida! Seeing the rolling green hills and blue skies, different trees and animals, I can’t help but praise the Lord for His awesome power of creation. He blesses us with different climates, seasons, animals, landscapes, etc. all for our pleasure here on earth and His glory!
Praise Him!!
P.S.: Please pray that our time here would be fruitful in our Christian witness. Thank you!

Posted: June 6th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Please take a moment and follow this link to a dear brother who is a college student at a “Christian” college and suffering for his devotion to the Lord by having lost friends and be ostracized by his peers.  What a testimony; what a call to us all to give it all for the message of the Cross.

Posted: August 14th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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I’m often reminded in things I read (be they biographies, essays, commentaries, or Scripture itself) that this life calls for swift and sometimes severe hackings.  Whether it is the hacking away at the self-will to pray as soon as one’s eyes open (barely) in the morning that the Lord rule one’s life completely, or hacking away at the selfishness behind walking right by a household chore without doing it (laundry, garbage, fixing that leaky faucet, etc.), or even hacking at the avoidance technique we develop when our flesh simply doesn’t “feel” like reading Scripture or spending time with the Lord.  For those sometimes sudden moments the dead and rotting man of our flesh comes alive, it’s good to know how to use a machete.

Posted: August 4th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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This article in the NY Times’ global paper talks about the latest biblically-related discovery of a three-foot tall tablet with writing on it that supposedly discusses “a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.”  Although it was found ten years ago, it is in vogue now, it seems; with some putting the discovery on par with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947-79.

The article (or the actuals scholars) aim at, once again, insinuating that the accounts of Jesus as God who dies and is resurrected may not be so original in antiquity afterall.  I say “once again” because it was only a few days ago where I covered similar stories collectively known as the “Christ Myth” (Read here).

Besides the above “been there, done that” element, there are at least three significant problems with the tablet:

1. The “some” who would hope to see the tablet put on par with the Dead Sea Scrolls are basically those who would stand to gain from its new-found notoriety.

2. The tablet has sign_f_cant  por___ns of let__rs  m_s__ng in very im___tant _arts so _t_ not ve_y reli_ble.  In fact, any words that would make it sensational were subjectively read into (onto?) the tablet, so who can say for sure what it originally said?  It is an unreliable witness–certainly not a 2,000 year old “star” witness–I wouldn’t want to be the lawyer bringing this guy to the stand!

3. Some quick math from a guy with a public high school education: Nearly 1,000 scrolls were found at Qumran and thousands more fragments.  Over three dozen copies of Psalms, 33 copies of Deuteronomy, two dozen copies of Genesis…all nearly identical (allowing for copyist errors) and thus cross-validating each other’s validity or subsequent translations……..so far all that’s in the news about the “Gabriel’s Revlation” tablet as it is called is one rather suspect tablet.  Now a thousand more similar tablets?  That’d be news-worthy.

So, Christian, no need to be dismayed or befuddled by headlines or news blurbs connecting the words “tablet” and “Jesus” together to make for attention-getting teasers and sound-bites.  Just keep walking with the Savior Who said, “The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but MY WORDS shall not pass away” (Luke 21:33, emphasis added).

Posted: July 6th, 2008 under Apologetics, Current Events, Scriptures, Uncategorized.
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One of the first objections whenever someone challenges the Bible is, “So you really believe God created everything in six 24-hour days?!”

If you have been stumped by just having “Yes” as your answer, let me help you with two thoughts:

1. The folks at Answers In Genesis have done a wonderful job with this one.  In short:  Before sin entered the world there was no death.  So no creature, down to the lowest organism, could have yet died, so creation could not have occurred over millions of years.
2. My favorite answer:  God is God!  The true miracle of creation is not that God created everything in six 24-hour days…its that He chose to take so long!  Folks, we serve the LORD OF EVERYTHING…He could’ve just as easily done it in six seconds!

Creation in six literal days??  Pfft!!  Puhleez…that’s a no-brainer…let’s move on…”Would you consider yourself a good person?”

P.S.: Incidentally, “Yes” is a perfectly reasonable answer by itself.  The Bible is not the one on the witness stand. “Let God be true and every man a liar.” (Rom 3:4)

Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Creation/Evolution, Uncategorized.
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