Created for Purpose – a life of unfolding Providence

Many reach middle age, watch their children grow up, welcome grandchildren into the world, and quietly wonder, “Have I already done the important part of my life—and now I’m just coasting?” Scripture offers a very different picture. It tells us that from the very beginning, God has been a God of purpose—He creates intentionally, He calls personally, and He uses His people meaningfully in every generation and in every season.Read more

The Legacy of A Stress-free Life

You know, one of the realities of life that our current physical science-based medical system has had to admit in recent years is that there are non-physical causes to poor health and disease. One widely accepted non-physical cause is “stress.” It’s quite well known today that the presence of stress in one’s life, and how one deals with that stress, has a direct impact on our health. Unfortunately, the solutions the medical system most often prescribe today for mental and emotional health are expensive drugs. And they often have serious side effects. So many people are “stressed out” that anti-depressant drugs have become a growing and prosperous business for pharmaceutical companies.Read more

Meekness – What is the most important thing you have ever learned?

When you think about taking a proactive change of direction to reclaim your legacy, what do you think is the most important thing that you’ve personally learned in your lifetime so far? While you make the focus of your attention on having a positive influence on your own children and grandchildren – your next generation – what truth or idea have you discovered that is such a powerful influence on your own life that you’d have to include it among the very top dozen or so important things that you have ever learned in your life?Read more

Will You Leave a Legacy of Confidence in God and in His Word?

Does it matter what you believe about origins? The devil hopes you don’t think so. Maybe you’ve heard people say… “It doesn’t matter what you believe about Genesis.” “Beliefs about origins are not really important to my life.” What do you suppose is the Number One Thing that causes God’s own children to suffer unnecessary losses, frustrations and destructions in their lives? Remember What Jesus said about why He came? The enemy disturbs people’s lives for a reason, why? It’s … “to steal, kill and destroy.” Jesus came to give his children what? “…that you may have life and life more abundantly.” John 10:10 Abundant Life? Would you say that deception and destruction should be a part of that? Notice what the prophet Hosea says about the one thing that affects God’s people destructively. “My people are destroyed for a lack of… what? … Knowledge! Hosea 4:6 So, who do you think is the one who wants you to stay dense (stupid)? … in other words, do you think you should just remain ignorant about what God and true open investigation have to say about any fundamental knowledge like the topic of origins, creation and evolution? How high of a Priority do you put on Truth? Where do you find the truth? Remember what Jesus said? “…for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." John 18:37 And what was the sarcastic comment of the one man to whom Jesus spoke these words? Remember what the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate said? “What is truth?” John 18:38 So why are so many people so mixed up about the truth? Paul’s letter to believers in Rome said: “They did not like to retain God in their knowledge.” Romans 1:28 Do you think that’s why many people say… we don’t talk about religion and politics around here? They don’t want to think about God and what He has to say about the vital issues of society that everybody’s talking about. Read more
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    Dennis Petersen, author of Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation and founder of the Creation Resource Foundation.

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    Education without virtue ruins its home culture with seeds of inevitable destruction

    For the first two centuries of America’s existence, almost everyone could read and ‘cipher’ (do basic math)… and they did it without ANY public schools, as they’re known in our time. The institutionalized indoctrination centers of today were unthinkable to early Americans. Past generations of Americans had high value for the education of their children — much more than Americans of today. What was the difference? A lot! But rather than handing over their children to the state to be “educated” by the state, and for the goals of the state, almost all education then was handled by families, religious organizations, tutors, community-run and private schools. And it was done within a free and open market mentality, without top-down controls from a faraway bureaucracy.

    How can God’s People be a Calming Influence in a Society filled with Fear? #361

    Are you a listening reader – a reader who spends time searching the Scriptures for insight and wisdom? Are you being careful not to waste time listening to proven dispensaries of deception (like the MSM)? Are you investing your life in discovering the truth about the world and the times that you’re living in? Then you are no doubt troubled by the tragic ignorance in our culture today. It’s no surprise that the great spheres of influence in society are rotting in confusion and corruption.

    Daniel’s prophecy about the time of the end (Daniel 12:4 ), when he was told that many people will travel to and fro and knowledge would increase… it helps us understand some things. But there’s a paradox. While modern humans have more knowledge at their fingertips than any humans in the history of the world, it’s clear that the vast masses of people are abysmally swimming in a sea of delusion and lost in willful ignorance. They don’t know history. They don’t know logic. Even Christians are at an historic low in their knowledge of God’s Word, the Bible. Most people you pass on the streets, especially those from a lifetime of public education, don’t even seem to know common horse-sense.

    Proverbs 15:14 tells us:
    “The heart of him that hath understanding seeks knowledge: but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.”

    Does that tell you something? Is effort required to seek knowledge over pleasure and entertainment? Did it say that the search begins with “a heart of understanding?” How do you get that? Do you think it depends on parents and mentors and the encouragement to press in to finding the treasures that lazy people will never discover?
    It’s no wonder that whole societies world-wide today seem to have lost their senses. It’s like they have no ability to discern what’s true, what’s right, what’s sensible.

    Ask the Beasts and Learn about God

    The Bible is filled with Hidden Treasures to Discover.
    One of those treasures, that continues to compel my ongoing study of the Creator’s Word and His World, is from the oldest book in the Bible… over 4,000 years ago… Job told his friends:
    “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; And the birds of the air, and they will tell you; Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; And the fish of the sea will explain to you. Who, among all these, does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this,
    In Whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?” Job 12:7-10

    When I discovered that Job’s story included that statement (Job 12:7, 9 & 10)… I knew it had to have a page in my book. It would introduce a whole section devoted to “EXPLORING THE DESIGN AND PERFECTION OF THE CREATION.”
    When he said “who doesn’t know?” … do you think he is trying to make it clear that an open-minded discovery of nature should naturally lead anyone to recognize that there is a LORD of creation responsible for all the intricate design that he sees all around him?

    “Ask the beasts, and they will teach you;”

    What I’m giving you today is a gift. It’s really a key. And it’s designed by your Creator to unlock mysteries of God’s Awesome Creation. Part of that is to know where to find this extraordinarily helpful insight from God’s Word. Job chapter 12

    Job chapter 12 has to do with the Number One Evidence from the “Things that are made…”
    Paul’s first chapter of his epistle to the first Generation of Messiah-confessing believers in Rome, declares… “… his (God’s) invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So, they are without excuse.” Romans 1:20
    Everything you’re seeing out in nature on a warm spring day – flowers, grass, butterflies – All of it is giving you clear perception of …
    DESIGN … And when you see the intricate and purposeful designs in nature … what does that tell you?

    It tells you There IS a Supreme DESIGNER who designed it all! A very intelligent Designer at that!
    And That’s the number one attribute of our Creator’s divine nature – The Designer is the Author of Creativity.
    And when you look at all the beauty and variety of what He created, do you get the feeling He had a lot of fun doing it?

    Our Creator continues showing humanity why people can have so much pleasure by using their intelligence to echo His creativity.
    … think about it…
    Endless designs in His world of nature inspire us to reflect our Creator’s genius by enabling us to be creative.