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Genetic EntropyRecently we went to a Creation Science Camp, which ran for about 5 days, and had dozens of lectures on an incredible amount of subjects, all related to Creation, Evolution, and Genesis. I used to think that there weren’t any new facts about Creation and Evolution- our Creation science magazine seemed to be producing the same old facts found in different situations. I was bored with Creation Science. After this Creation Science Camp, with all the new information the speakers presented, I’ll never feel that way again! There were about a dozen real Christian scientists speaking at the Camp, all of them took a literal interpretation of Genesis, and the entire Bible. There was a geophysicist, a marine biologist who specialized in genetics, an archaeologist, a geologist, a geneticist, a plant physiologist and a whole lot more. I’m not even sure what all those titles mean! All of these men believed in God and in the Bible without believing in Evolution. One of the speakers was Dr John Sanford, a geneticist who is well-known in genetic engineering circles for his invention of the gene gun. He talked about genetic entropy and a computer program called Mendel’s Accountant. Mendel was a Christian scientist who discovered genetics. Mendel’s Accountant is a computer programme, which creates a graph that shows the rate of harmful mutations that appear in a species over a period of time. Every person has thousands of tiny, unnoticeable mutations. Most of these mutations are actually harmful, and decrease the physical ability of the species. A few mutations are actually beneficial for the species, and make it better equipped to survive, such as a mutation making dogs living in a desert have short hair. Evolutionists believe that given enough time, these beneficial mutations would change an animal into a completely different type of animal. This idea has a fatal flaw. In each new generation, thousands of new genetic mutations (copying mistakes) occur. The great majority of these mutations are harmful for the animal, and decrease it’s general fitness. A few of these new mutations are beneficial for the animal, and increase it’s fitness. But because these new mutations are predominantly harmful, the general fitness of the species gradually decreases with each generation. As time goes on, and more generations appear, each with the old mutations of their ancestors, and thousands of new mutations, the number of bad mutations pile up until the species’ fitness is so low, it eventually becomes extinct. According to Evolution, the number of beneficial mutations in apes increased, and so as the mutations changed the animal, it became better adapted for it’s new surroundings and eventually it evolved into a human. However, Mendel’s Accountant shows that because mutations are predominantly harmful, the animal will not improve into a human, it will decline towards extinction, each generation being less physically fit than the last. This is known as entropy, and it poses a serious problem for evolution. John Sanford said that if we saw Adam and Eve today, who had no harmful mutations at all, we would be amazed. Because of the pile of bad genetic mutations that we have, we are nowhere near the physical perfection that they, or the animals around them, were. Because we have improved our living conditions and diet in comparison to our great-grandfathers, the human race appears to be improving, not declining, but our burden of mutations from over the generations means that we are nowhere near the physical fitness of Adam, or of post-flood patriarchs, as can be seen by their longer life spans, and that in the big picture, the human race is heading downhill along e rest of Creation. A Useful Link: www.creation.com (this website has tons of information, articles and technical articles about Creation and Evolution, check it out!) 11:00 AM - Mar. 16, 2009 - comments {4} - post commentThe Philippians 4:8 Blogger In my last post, I encouraged bloggers to write about worthwhile things, about stuff that really matters, and to try and write from God’s perspective, thinking about what the Bible says about these things. Of course, it’s a lot easier to say, “write about worthwhile things” than to actually think of any to write about! First of all, what is a worthwhile thing? Philippians 4:8 has a good definition. “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy [blog] about such things.” This is supposed to be our blogging standard. Still, we’re left with the question, “what do excellent and praiseworthy blog posts look like?” The important thing to understand about Philippians 4:8 is that it’s not a list of blog articles waiting to be posted; it’s the core concept behind every word that we type. We don’t look at Philippians 4:8 to find a topic to write about, rather, we write about something and then look at it through Philippians 4 glasses. We edit our posts by deciding if this post brings glory and honour to God, by being excellent, pure, admirable, true and noble. Then we share it with the world. Judging if all our posts meet the Philippians 4:8 standard in this general sense is very important, but I think there is a bit more to it. When we go to church, we go to worship God, to have fellowship with other Christians and to receive encouragement in the faith. We can experience the same fellowship in the blogging community by blogging and writing specific posts about our walk with Jesus. It can be posting a verse that struck you, and maybe talking about why it struck you so much, or it can be sharing your feelings about an issue, or something else. When we try to blog to the Philippians standard, it’s a great opportunity to not only encourage others in their walk with God but to also make our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ think about their faith. When we blog to uplift God and other people, then we are truly blogging up to the Philippians 4:8 standard. 11:04 AM - Mar. 12, 2009 - comments {1} - post commentDo You Realise The Power You Have? Do you realise how much power you have? If you are reading this, you probably already have a blog. Do you realise how much power that gives you? When you write a blog post, you are writing to just about anybody who goes onto your site. That could be someone next door, next state, or overseas. Anybody who clicks on your blog will get to hear what you have to say. So what do we tell them? We tell them what’s happening in our lives and in our families. That is important. But we could tell them something even more important. As people, and as Christians, we have opinions on real issues. We do have opinions on politics, economics, We can do this by sharing our opinions on our blog. Have you ever heard the saying “Don’t die with the music still in you”? What I am trying to tell you is “Don’t die with the Word still in you!” Let’s tell the world what God has to say. People all over the world can read your blog and see what you think. Let’s tell the world what we do think. Not just about our life, but about our world. We can make a difference. My challenge is to write just one post this month about what God has to say on an issue. It doesn’t have to be some massive political essay, it can be a short blog-post about something as small as video-games or fashion or an activity. God has something to say about EVERY part of our lives. Let’s go out and tell the world what it is! 11:39 AM - Mar. 2, 2009 - comments {6} - post commentRain, F Troop, School work and one great bookHello everyone. It’s really wet over here right now- it’s drizzling as I speak. So far we’ve had about 17 inches this month- that tends to be our wettest month anyway. So big puddles everywhere! We live in the northern tropics of Australia, and right now it’s the wet season and it is… wet. I’m going full-bore into schoolwork now- I am doing math (Math-U-See), Science (Exploring Creation With Physical Science by Jay Wile), Latin as well as doing a bit of Character First. I am also doing Apologetics by watching Francis Schaeffer’s How Shall We Then Live DVD, taking live lecture notes, then writing a short summary. Once I’ve done that I look at Schaeffer’s notes that come in the study guide, select one of his questions in the Study Guide, and then write a 3-5-paragraph essay about the period Schaeffer talked about on the DVD. It’s really good, and my understanding of all the different events in history is coming together as I see the connections between different events and the results of different worldviews etc. It’s great. I’m reading Moving Men and Mountains by R.G. Letourneau. I’m hooked on it! It’s an autobiography of a Christian man who became a very wealthy businessman. His business was inventing and building earth-moving machinery- and eventually, as the business grew and technology got better, his machines got bigger and bigger, up to the monster trucks you see working in mines and tunnels today. He built BIG machines. However, he was also a Christian businessman. And he didn’t really start off as a businessman/inventor/engineer building monster trucks- in fact he was a mechanic and a contractor using tractors when they first came out, during the 1920s. But he applied his mind to making better machines that allowed him to do his contracts in record time- machines that he made out of bits and ends. But you guys really should read the book and find out for yourself. I highly recommend it! Something else the family’s been really enjoying is an old comedy series from the 1960s- F Troop. Jessica and Naomi (my sisters, who have blogs too) can recite the entire theme song if you like- give your parents a shot of nostalgia! It’s about an accident-prone captain in the Wild West, and his shoddy soldiers- the legally blind look out, the bugler who can only play Yankee Doodle and Dixie and the corrupt NCOs (lower ranked officers) who are secretly trading with the capitalistic Indian tribe nearby, who are always trying to make money. It’s hilarious. You can find it on Amazon. O
I’m trying to be more consistent blogging on here- but you know how many times I’ve said that! Or, at least, you would… if I posted regularly and told you! 1:50 PM - Feb. 13, 2009 - comments {6} - post commentCreation CampSorry to keep everybody in tension about my next post, but the big news is we’ve just come back from holidays and internet was a little tricky, and so that’s my lame excuse. We went on a big holiday to the south-east of There was heaps of evidence presented by many real scientists about subjects in their fields- tree rings, genetics, mutations, teutonic plates, cosmology, geology and even history. It was all very good and informative. The cosmology was very complicated, and the processes the speaker went through went right over my head, stuff about the universe expanding, and there being a 4th dimension, redshift and blueshift, and it probably didn’t help that it was kinda late at night when he talked about it! \
Basically, what the physicist was saying was that the reason we can see stars that take millions of light-years to travel here when the world is only 6,000 years old is because on the 4th day of Creation, the universe suddenly expanded very quickly, like blowing up a balloon. In this expanding universe time was a lot quicker in space than time on earth (!?!?!) and so light traveling from the stars to us did not take as many earth-years to travel over here so that we could see them.
Did I explain it right? That summary of his talk I understood- but the processes… The bit about time traveling quicker is also a part of Einstein's theory of General Relativity. Obviously cosmologists are very smart people if they can understand that kind of stuff! I took notes of nearly every talk (and there were about 20 of them!), and I’ll be writing up essays from these notes for schoolwork, and I’ll post those on here, once they’re written (which might take a little while). So that was part of my holiday. 7:04 PM - Jan. 29, 2009 - comments {2} - post commentA Tag, and my returnAnnaBeth was actually brave enough to make her own tag (applause) and she tagged me. So here it is, the first tag written by somebody I know! Oh, yeah, a post about our doings will be up shortly. So here it is! What Did You Receive For Christmas? a. prince caspian(movie,poster ,t-shirt etc.) b. sword(or any weapon) X c. books d. other What is your favourite color? X a. blue b. green c. red d. pink : P What is your favourite movie? a. prince caspian b.bridge to terabithia X c. Lord of the Rings d. Barney lol how many book have you started but never finished? X a.10-7 b. 7-5 c. 5-3 d.3- How many people will you tag? a. 20-15 b.15-10 c. 10-15 X d. 5- Mostly A you are AMAZING Mostly B you are COOL Mostly C you are OK Mostly D you are WEIRD Tricky. I am tied. I have a lot of unfinished books, and the closest colour mentioned to my favourite colour, is blue, which is “A” for Amazing. However, I Prefer Lord Of The Rings to Narnia OR Barney, and I got a lot of books for Christmas. So that ties me for Amazing and Okay. The answers I answered “C” for are probably more accurately me anyway, so I guess that makes me “Okay”. Tags are great for the ego, aren’t they! :P I’ll tag 1 person, and that lucky person is… As they say on the quiz shows, Come on down and collect your soon to be personalized tag! Sorry, couldn’t resist. 1:23 PM - Jan. 10, 2009 - comments {5} - post commentThe Battle Of Stalingrad, tragedy and humourHello, everybody! I read this really good book about the battle of Stalingrad during World War Two. It was a really grim and desperate battle; I think the book showed war for what it is- a great heroic tragedy, set amongst both love and vice. The ruthlessness and incompetency of both Stalin and Hitler was shocking. Because Stalin was only concerned about winning the war, he even gave an order that all the Russian houses and villages within 40 miles of the German army were to be destroyed, leaving the hapless peasants to die of starvation and cold in the approaching winter! The fate of the peasants wasn’t even contemplated. Also the German army stole the peasants’ food and clothing so much that they weren’t even able to grow honey to eat during the fierce winter. Wars really are a sad, terrible tragedy, with themes of alternating hate, loyalty, integrity and vice, and it shows in the Russian campaign of WW2.
“ Christmas will not take place this year for the following reasons: Joseph has been called up for the army; Mary has joined the Red Cross; Baby Jesus has been sent with other children out into the countryside [to avoid the bombing]; thee Three Wise Men could not get visas because they lacked proof of Aryan origin; there will be not star because of the blackout; the shepherds have been made into sentries and the angels have become Blitzmalden [telephone operators]. Only the donkey is left, and one can’t have Christmas with just a donkey.” This one, probably written by a group of German soldiers, is also rather funny, but it shows a little of the terrible conditions on the eastern front. They entitled it “Note for Those Going on Leave”. “You must remember that you are entering a National Socialist country whose living conditions are very different to those which you have become accustomed. You must be tactful with the inhabitants, adapting to their customs and refrain from the habits you have come to love so much. Food: Do not rip up the parquet or other kinds of floor, because potatoes are kept in a different place. Curfew: If you forget your key, try to open the door with the round-shaped object. Only in extreme urgency use a grenade. Defence Against Partisans: It is not necessary to ask civilians the password and open fire on recieveing an unsatisfactory answer. Defence against Animals: Dogs with mines [bombs] attached to them are a special feature of the Soviet Union. German dogs in the worst cases bite, but they do not explode. Shooting every dog you see, although recommended in the Soviet Union, might create a bad impression. Relations with the Civil Population: In Germany, just because somebody is wearing women’s clothes does not necessarily mean that she is a partisan [member of the resistance]. But in spite of this, they are dangerous for anyone on leave from the front. General: When on eave back in the Fatherland take care not to talk about the paradise existence in the Soviet Union in case everybody wants to come here and spoil our idyllic comfort.” 10:08 AM - Dec. 16, 2008 - comments {3} - post commentA Society's Beliefs- Creation Or Evolution- Part two If you believe in an all-powerful God who created the world, and governs it, then you know that what is important is obeying God. If you believe that the world created itself through random process, then what is important is pleasing yourself, because you will soon die, and nothing will matter any more. These two assumptions have massive implications in the establishment of a society’s values and therefore, its laws.
Let’s suppose a society that starts with the Creationist, Christian worldview. To such a society, what is important is pleasing and obeying God. Those are its values, and will be expressed in its laws. Obeying God is important to this society is because it believes God created us, and that makes Him our owner and our boss. All of this society’s values can be traced to that one statement. One major cornerstone in this Creationist society’s set of God-based values is the value of human life. Murder, Abortion and Euthanasia are seen as wrong in a Creationist society, because these concepts ignore the law of the sanctity of human life, which God established. A major cornerstone of a Creationist’s worldview is built upon the preciousness of others- they are precious because God made them and loves them. A Creationist society’s stance on non-ethical issues, such as immigration, health and education, is also affected by its belief in God and the preciousness of others; so that every issue this society faces is, in fact, influenced by the society’s belief in God, and in Creation. 8:24 AM - Dec. 9, 2008 - comments {2} - post commentA Society's Beliefs- Creation Or EvolutionAll societies have values, and it is upon a society’s values that its code of acceptable behaviour and its laws are made. Your values are what you believe is important, and why they are important. That is called your worldview. Evolution is a widely accepted theory of how the universe was made through many millions of years of random processes. Creation is a less popular theory of how the universe was made by God in six literal days. However, both are just theories. A scientific law must be:
Neither the theory of Creation nor the theory of Evolution can be tested, observed and repeated, because they only occurred in the past. This means that neither theory can become proven scientific laws. However, they are still very important issues, on which every society must make a decision. Since a society is simply the total of all the people living in it, the decisions on Creation and Evolution that each individual makes will have a massive impact on the laws and stability of their society. 9:28 AM - Dec. 4, 2008 - comments {4} - post commentTECHNOLOGY HATES ME... THE FEELING IS MUTUAL
Greetings, everybody. We had our Speak Up public speaking course grand finale last week- it was great! Everybody did very well, we had all improved over the course, and I think we were all wanting to do it again next year (which we will, but only focus on the Apologetic speeches). That was really fun. So, to explain my title… Technology hates me. I did the sound system at Church yesterday, and the technology refused to co-operate. Okay, let me explain. It was a special service this week, where the kids from Sunday School were able to show what they had learned over the year in the service- in fact they led the service- doing the notices, telling their memory verses, and singing up at the front to lead the songs. So we had a whole lot of children’s songs to play from a CD. That was my department; I had to play the CD via the laptop, which was plugged into the sound system and flip through the songs we needed. Okay. So I checked the CD, played it through the speakers via the laptop, and it all worked. I knew which CDs and which songs to use, and I thought I had it all sorted out. Or not. You see, the service starts, and its time for the first batch of songs. Only the computer won’t play the CD. So the adult helping me tries to fix the problem, and it takes quite some time but miraculously we salvage a CD player and just put the CD in there. Everybody is looking at me to turn on the jolly sound, and it won’t come. The kids are standing up the front, and erm, asking questions. We spend quite some time on it before resorting to a CD player (a miracle we had one). So the songs can now play… Except something else goes wrong. Not only does the songs come nearly 5 minutes late, but I get confused with the order of service, and start playing the wrong songs! Being quickly reminded, I switch onto the right songs, and so we’re off into the worship. Next problem. The kids are all standing up at the front, singing and leading the congregation, and there is supposed to be a powerpoint with the words up on the wall. So I realise that half-way through the song (my mind is still mumbled up with the order of service) and I start to play the powerpoint… The kids are lined up right in front of the projector and it shines into the kids’ eyes! Quickly turn that off and let them finish the song unmolested. Okay, what next needs to go wrong? We go through the first batch of songs, and then the memory verses, which the kids recite from the microphone, and then they sing “Yes, Jesus loves me”. But in all the hustle and bustle with everything going on and everything going wrong I forget to turn on the mics, even for the kid playing the guitar along to the song! Then when we realise the problem and turn on the microphone- oh no! Wrong mic! Quick, switch that over. Song’s over. The poor kid. He practised that guitar playing for weeks. The good news was we could all hear him well enough, because the singers were quiet (because I forgot to turn on their microphones!). Okay. We are nearing the end of the service. But cruel fate has one more disaster waiting for me… just preparing for the perfect opportunity to lunge… It’s time for the benediction. The people leading it say “And we have some words and sound for this, so please say it along with us.” Looking at me to turn on the sound for the benediction. I haven’t heard anything about the benediction, let alone the music for it. I’ve put the words up on the wall for everybody via the projector, that’s easy enough but the sound? I give them a blank “I haven’t a clue” look, (several of them) because I have no idea about the sound for the benediction. The adult helping me fortunately thinks of turning the laptop’s sound on. Looks like the laptop had been muted before the service. Ah, sound. But the people leading the benediction have already started, so we leave it be. Moral of the story? Whatever will go wrong- will go wrong. It got kinda funny, after a while, as the list of problems kept growing and growing. So that’s my story for today. 4:51 PM - Dec. 1, 2008 - comments {3} - post commentSpeak Up Night Finale!Hello, everybody. So, an update on what’s been happening- For the last several months the older homeschool kids (7 11-15 year-old kids) have been getting together every couple of weeks for Speak Up! Which is a public speaking program. What we had to do was write up and practise a speech to deliver in front of the whole group. Each speak up meeting we had a different kind of speech to give- whether an impromptu speech (which we weren’t allowed to practice for, as you are supposed to make it up nearly on the spur of the moment), or an apologetics speech, or an interpretative speech, etc. After we gave our speeches, and talked about what we did well and what to work on, my Mum (who led the group) would teach us how to give the next sort of speech we were to deliver next Speak Up. It was really quite fun, and since we were only giving our speeches in front of a small group of close friends, it wasn’t too nerve-wracking. So, as a kind of grand finale, Mum organized for us to have a final speech night, where we would give one or two of our favourite speeches from over the year, in front of a larger group of friends and family. So all the older homeschool kids are in a frenzy of practising their speeches. I am giving that “Why God is not a God of hate” speech that I wrote up for last Speak Up and posted on here several days ago. So that event should be really good. Oh yeah, and the speech night is tomorrow. :) 7:41 AM - Nov. 20, 2008 - comments {7} - post commentThe Effect Of A Belief System- Creation Or EvolutionWhen a country starts with a belief in Creation, its laws and statutes become very different than the laws of a country that starts with a belief in Evolution. Consider this line of logic in the context of the legal system of a country.
Because God owns us (a right He alone has, because He alone made us), then God is our authority, and has the right to tell us what to do. If He has these rights, He must have the right to punish us if we disobey. What God tells us to do is found in the Bible. Everything we do has eternal consequences; these consequences can only be given out by our owner; God. Alternatively, · If nobody made me, then nobody owns me · If nobody owns me, nobody has the right to tell me what to do · If nobody has the right to tell me what to do, then nobody has the right to punish me If we evolved, as Evolution teaches, then nobody made us, we are results of random processes. That means that if there is anybody who has the right to boss us around, it must be ourselves. Therefore, we are under no moral obligation to obey the laws of our country. In fact, there is no such thing as a moral obligation, because we are our own boss, and can do whatever we like to make us happy, we make our own morals. It means that we should do anything we like to have fun before our short lives are over and everything becomes meaningless. Such a belief plays havoc upon the structure and stability of a society. On the other hand, if we take the Creationist, Christian view of the world, laws have value, as they reflect the laws of God, which we want to obey, as to please God. No matter which belief system you believe in, it has a radical affect on your life, and on the society you live in. 10:38 AM - Nov. 13, 2008 - comments {3} - post commentWhy God Was Never a God of Hate So, here it is! My first What Would Jesus Say article is here! I have been working on some other Creation vs Evolution articles, but they still need editing. So here is another one! To give some background information, I wrote a post some time ago. Do you realise the power you hold when you have a blog? You can tell anybody who reads your blog about God and about what God says about a certain issue! That is a lot of power. So let’s use it by writing about what God has to say about an issue- any issue, from Abortion or Euthanasia, to just dressing up and hanging around with your friends. Basically- What Would Jesus Say About this? Or WWJS. The concept is to write one such article a month, or more if you want in any length or style you like. Long or short. Whatever. Just tell the world what Jesus would say about something! So here is my first article. “This is what the LORD Almighty says: “I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.” Those two verses from 1 Samuel 15 makes it sounds like God hated the Amalekites. It is one of many times God gave an instruction to wipe out and kill everybody from a certain country. But how is this compatible with John 3:16 “For God so loved the world…?” How can God be so full of hate in the Old Testament, but be so full of love in the New Testament? The answer to the problem is that God never did hate anybody in the Old Testament, but as the people’s creator and their ultimate authority, he had to punish them for their sins. That is not a punishment from hate, but a necessary punishment coming from a need for justice. If God was full of hate in the Old Testament, as the tales of Noah’s Flood, the Ten Plagues, and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah indicates, and then started to love us during the New Testament as John 3:16 testifies, then God appears changed his nature. This is impossible, for “I the LORD do not change” Malachi 6:3. So, either God was the same God in the New Testament and the Old, or he has changed his nature, and become a liar. If the second is true, then all of Christianity crumbles on its foundations. It means that God is a liar, and nothing he tells us, even the offer of salvation in the gospels, can be trusted and accepted. The decrees of punishment and death God issued in the Old Testament can be seen as signs that God hated us. These punishments were not fuelled by hatred, but by the need of justice. Sin and wrongdoing must be punished, and the only authority with the right to punish us is God. This is because he is not only the person we have wronged, but also our ultimate authority. If we refuse to acknowledge this authority, we see God’s actions as hatred. We can see God’s right to this authority through a simple line of logic. If nobody made me, then nobody owns me. If nobody owns me, then nobody has the right to tell me what to do. If nobody has the right to tell me what to do, then nobody has the right to punish me. If nobody has the right to punish my wrongdoing, then neither do they have the ability to forgive it. God’s ability to forgive our sins stems from the same authority as His right to punish us- because He owns us. God is not only a just God who punishes His sinful creation, but also a loving God who has redeemed it. He has been preparing a way for his creation to return to Him from the beginning, for in the Old Testament, in Genesis 3:15, as God curses the serpent we read “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel”. This was a promise that Jesus would come and die to forgive the sins of the world. God could have given no greater show of love than that. God never was a God of Hate. As creator and owner, He must punish us when we go wrong, but He loves us so much that from the very start He planned to die for us and bring us back to Him. He never was a God of hate, but a sovereign God of Justice and Love. 8:36 PM - Nov. 8, 2008 - comments {3} - post commentThis is a very neat link!I was writing a schoolwork article about John Wycliffe and I found this really neat website. It has the entire John Wycliffe translation of the Bible (finished in 1384 AD) for download! I haven’t download it yet- but I will. The entire Bible had been translated by 1384 AD, by John Wycliffe and his friends. Most of the translation of the New Testament was not actually done by Wycliffe, but by his friends, however, the project was definitely under Wycliffe’s leadership, and it was his idea. The translation of the Old Testament was not quite as clear as the New Testament; it was done by Nicholas Hereford, who did a lot of work on the NT. So, here’s the link for John Wycliffe’s translation of the Bible; the first English translation!- http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/wycliffe/ I thought that was very neat. 10:52 AM - Oct. 27, 2008 - comments {2} - post commentSome provoking questionsI have a confession to make. I have seen this post several times, but I was too lazy to post it.So here it is! I found these quite thought provoking. Why do we ((sleep)) in [[church]], But stay ((awake)) through a [[2 hour movie]]? Why is it so ((hard)) to talk about [[God]], but so ((easy)) to [[Gossip]]? Why are we so ((bored)) when we look at a [[Christian magazine]], but find it ((easy)) to read [[Cosmo]]? Why is it so easy to ((ignore)) a [[Godly]] post or email, Yet we ((resend)) the [[nasty]] ones? Why are ((churches)) getting [[smaller]], But ((bars and clubs)) are [[growing]]? Think about it, are you going to repost this? Or are you going to ignore it, cause you think you'll get laughed at? Would You Have Opened This if it Said.... Read This In Gods Name or if it said.... Click here for the latest gossip? 80 % of you WON'T repost this. Jesus Christ said: "If you deny me in front of your friends, I will deny you in front of my father." Don't give God the chance to deny you. 8:48 AM - Oct. 23, 2008 - comments {7} - post commentTags, tags, tags....Okay, I have a lot of tags I need to post here, so here we go! First, from Forestcrazy who knows how long ago!
7 Things I Want To Do Before I Die 7 Things I CANNOT Do 7 Things That I Love About My Mum
7 Movies I Could Watch Over And Over 7 Books I Love To Read I tag JessicaLetchford The second is from Rachsters AND Storyteller (does this mean I have to post it twice?)
1. Where is your cell phone? I don't have one. 2. Where is your significant other? My books are in the lounge room. 3. Your hair color? Brown 4. Your mother? somewhere.
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? University 13. Where were you last night? Bed.
17. The last thing you did? Matters of importance.
20. Your pet? A half-breed Dalmatian, who is also deaf.
22. Your mood? Good. Mostly.
28. Love someone? God and Family, though aren’t we supposed to love EVERYBODY? Even Robert Mugabe? There’s a hard test of faith! 29. Your favorite color? Grey. 30. When is the last time you laughed? I don’t laugh heartily very much.
I don't think I'll tag anybody on this one... I have some other tags logged up somewhere, but that's enough for now.I have also been awarded several times, (Thanks guys!), but I'll get back to that when my technological-savvy sibling (JessicaLetchford) gets them onto my blog. So see you later!
6:20 AM - Oct. 9, 2008 - comments {4} - post commentWhat Would Jesus say?I’ve had several comments recently talking about the power and effectiveness of having a blog and telling the world what Jesus has to say on the important issues of today. So I came up with an idea.
What Would Jesus Say? And more importantly, are we prepared to say it? The WWJS idea is this… just to write one post on any issue you feel God has something to say about once a month, or more if you want to. The goal is to create awareness, even with a few people, of the importance of a Godly, Christian worldview in all of the issues and questions facing our world today, from video-games to foreign aid. A post can be anything from a thoughtful couple of sentences to a conclusive essay, about any issue, and what God has to say about it. Write a post on the same issue as your friends, or choose something of your own. If you would like to participate, just comment me and we’ll send you the link for the blog button to put on your blog. You can also, if you’d like, put the banner on your blog as well. Of course, you are all free to take part in the challenge without using the banner, or just taking part sporadically. But what to talk about? I have a short list here; if any body has any other ideas, please tell me. Another good idea (and a huge time saver) is to use schoolwork you have already written. You could also share links to other people with the same ideal; to tell the world what Jesus has to say. Because He has a lot to tell us. Abortion Evolution vs. Creation A part of Scripture A Quote you disagree with An idea you read in a book An idea about God A social issue such as poverty, spending money, the environment A quote you do agree with A thought you had A common conception in society The expectations people have of you (or lack of them!) Political issues
2:39 PM - Oct. 4, 2008 - comments {2} - post commentDo You Realise The Power You Hold?Do you realise how much power you have? If you are reading this, you probably already have a blog. Do you realise how much power that gives you? When you write a blog post, you are writing to just about anybody who goes onto your site. That could be someone next door, next state, or overseas. Anybody who clicks on your blog will get to hear what you have to say. So what do we tell them? We tell them what’s happening in our lives and in our families. That is important. But we could tell them something even more important. As people, and as Christians, we have opinions on real issues. We do have opinions on politics, economics, Africa, abortion, Evolution, laws and God. We all have opinions. We all express them in our actions and in what we tell our friends. Our opinions are important. We live in a democracy, where decisions are made by the weight of the majority. We have a right to speak, and tell anybody what we think about an issue. We often exercise that right with our friends, but have you ever thought about doing something much more than that? We can do this by sharing our opinions on our blog. Have you ever heard the saying “Don’t die with the music still in you”? What I am trying to tell you is “Don’t die with the Word still in you!” Let’s tell the world what God has to say. People all over the world can read your blog and see what you think. Let’s tell the world what we do think. Not just about our life, but about our world. We can make a difference. 1:06 PM - Sep. 24, 2008 - comments {9} - post commentHere they come, as thick as grass and as loud as thunder!Now, I need to make a disclaimer. I do not feel like this towards my sisters! I love them a lot, and they're not really mad. They like listening to silly (as in funny) music, and I like saying that I don't like it! So please take my post below as something tongue in cheek, about the opposite of a brother-sister relationship!
Found in the last page of the personnal diary of Joshua Letchford, HST "Dear Diary- I am surrounded by mad, ranting sisters. I have barricaded my position as best I could; it holds for now. At the moment they are singing along to some insane song of their own making. I am slowly being driven mad by crazy lyrics, high whistles and a mix-match collection of quotes and sayings from popular culture. This siege cannot last long. Before they will crank up the volume, quote any movie lines that enter their heads and start up a insane adaptation of some out of the world song. This will be my last entry. I expect I will be overrun by crazy singing girls by morning. " P.S. The title is an adaption of a famous line from the movie "Zulu" (which I haven't seen yet.), when the Zulus in South Africa attack a vastly outnumbered British force. One of the British soldiers yells out "Here they come, thick as grass and as black as thunder!". HST stands for Homeschooled Teenager. 8:19 PM - Sep. 14, 2008 - comments {8} - post commentI have a poll (of sorts) for you!Hello everybody. I am doing a Bible study and one of the projects is to interview kids about what they admire in their Dads, and why. If anybody reading this would like too, they could answer the questions too. Just leave a private message or a comment, saying what you admire in your Dad and why. Adults could answer too if they want. It’s simply for my private research, so I won’t be quoting anybody’s answers! I am trying to get back into a good school routine, like I did last week. That will have to start by going to bed early, so that I can wake up at sunrise, do all my jobs and start my school. My schoolwork is normally about 5 hours or a bit less, and then I have 2 hours of productive time, where, you guessed it- I need to be productive. That includes playing with Daniel (little brother, his blog is God’s Creation, check it out!), free history study, etc. If I wake up at sunrise, I can have all seven hours of work done just after lunch. But that requires waking up early and really getting into my day. So, I hope I can! 11:56 AM - Sep. 8, 2008 - comments {5} - post comment
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