Deeper Furrow

  Blowing Evolution Out Of The Water Swimming: WR holder Sarah Sjöström wins first Olympic title in 100m free      Yah, that just happen!   Sarah hit the wall and was flabbergasted.   Overcome with emotion, she covered her mouth and cried the happy tears so common .   Common?   I see women swimmers from lands apart exhibiting the same reaction when they win.   In addition, their bodily contours are nearly identical as their sport demands.   Form does follow function.      If we evolved from primordial soup over the last hundred thousand years, how can these global women be so similar?   Soup is soup.   I would expect meatballs on one continent and noodles on another.   If we all came from African Lucy, as I was taught, should not her daughters vary more than I see at the race’s start?      The same swimsuits.   Legs, torsos, arms, with heads a joining depict the eight women as being sisters.   Their proportions are that of sprint swimmers, length of arms in ratio to legs.   Als

  Freebasing Genesis 25: 32 " And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33  And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob ." Romans 9: 12 " It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. 13  As it is written, Jacob have I loved , but Esau have I hated." Genesis 27      In 1980, Richard Pryor , a comedian, lit himself on fire while freebasing cocaine.   To freebase means to mix cocaine with a flammable liquid like ether to create a substance that can be smoked.   He suffered multiple severe burns about his body.      Jacob, I would say, never heard of freebasing.   Yet, he engaged in it.      This season I watched the women’s 1A and 2A softball championships.   The batter cracked the ball, it bounced to midfield, and she scored a base hit.   With runner on first, the pitcher eyed her tentatively, wondering what she’d do next.   The pitch h

  God’s Rocks Exodus 20:25 “ And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.” 1 Peter 1:5 “ Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Romans 12:1  “ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” 1 Peter 1:8 “ And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.”      God likes rocks.   In fact, God made a lot of them.   All are precious in His sight, yet He makes a distinction between the common rocks and those in His collection.   Blues, blacks, striped and spotted, He collects an assortment.      I remember walking the western shore of Lake Superior looking for aga

  Chaos And God Chaos: complete disorder and confusion. In physics: behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to     small changes in conditions.      Wow!   In this our God?   Do we understand Him as such?   I think others worship another being of this chaotic sorts.   I would call them children of the beast.   Jesus stated the pharisee’s father was the devil.   All unregenerate people follow in the desires of Satan.   So it is safe to say, there are the Godly and there are the ungodly.   A sharp division lies between the two.      So what of chaos?   Satan loves disorder and confusion.   In these hurricanes, he laughs at God for God is a god of order.   His glory is seen in a creation of beauty owing its presence to the One who set the physical laws into motion at the start.   Satan tries to draw men’s eyes off the true God in supposing He is not in control.      Suppose a tornado ripped through your town, flying debris everywhere and demoli

  Fractional Beings In God we have the opportunity to be made whole .   But what does that mean? An understanding of the composition of man is essential before talking of this idea.   God says we were created in His image.   Correct.  Adam was created in God’s full image.   We are created in Adam’s image.   This awareness is crucial.   We are not gods.   We are made in the similitude of God.   We have fallen from perfection as Adam sinned and brought down the entire race of Mankind.   So we look like the fallen Adam, our father from which we inherit our composition.      Our minds are fully intact, however suffering the fall, they are used sparingly. I heard it said we use a small part of our brains when compared to the whole.   Since the mind and physical brain are intrinsically linked, our minds are diminished.   Yet, in referenced to the image of God, our minds can perceive as needed.      Our souls can fully envelop the emotions of God.   As in sin, we are retarded yes, but

Heresy Called Out Romans 829  “ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30  Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. ” Ephesians 1:11 “ In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: ” Exodus 7:3 “ And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. ” Romans 9 Heresy : adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma      The heretical teaching of predestination as it is known today was never the teaching of the orthodox Christian church.  The teaching of predestination, as it has morphed now into the twenty first century, states that God being all sovereign with respect to Man’s activities divinely choose

  Run The Greens      I’ve noticed lately as I drive about Sioux City that I run more lights.   In fact, I speed through them, yet I’m never caught.   Yellow is for caution, but I get the greens.      I have heard the expression, “The Lord will open doors.”   If He can guide my way about the city as I mind the speed limits, then He can work to free a path for those whom He has called.      Passports?   Foreign travel?   God works in these things.   He can expeditiously acquire the paperwork needed.   I have heard testimonies.   When God opens a door, He lets the birds fly through it freely.      I wear Keen safety footwear which look curiously like hiking boots as if I am ready to hit the trail walking about the city’s concrete.   I may look like a fool when the temperature gets hot, but blue jeans and boots continue to be my attire.   Sounds funny, but I am always prepared.   Flip flops don’t cut the mustard if I’d have to walk with a stalled car.      When God opens doors,

  The Operands John 1:14  “ And the Word was made flesh , and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. ” Isaiah 7:14  “ Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. ” Matthew 1:23  “ Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us . ” John 20:17  “ Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not ; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. ” Revelation 1: 12  “ And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13  And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man , clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 1

  The Weight Of Words Matthew 5:37  “ But let your communication be , Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. ” Ecclesiastes 7: 5  “ It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. 6  For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool : this also is vanity. ” Proverbs 25:11  “ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. ” We are not God.   Praise the Lord!   For we utter things that fall to the ground.   But s hall we be judged for every idle word? Matthew 12: 36  “ But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37  For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. ”      I don’t know for sure what these verses mean, but it is imperative that we mind our mouths. Proverbs 22:15  “ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction

  Half And Half?      Without Biblical citation, this truth stands.   It is evident when taking the Bible in its entirety that Jesus is totally God, and totally man.   But why is this needs so?      The kingdom was lost with Adam. In one act of rebellion following a meditation of illegitimate want by our knight in drab armor, Mankind surrendered its authority.   At a whim of fleeting understanding, he threw in the towel to forfeit his crown while grasping for God’s.   If we have been called to forgive, then this man requires our all since he ushered death and torture into our glass aquarium we call the world.      There had to come another.   One worthy of the crown that once rested on Adam’s head.   Not that Satan stole it to his head, it just fell to the dust.   One had to enact the authority again if Man were to throw off the slavery of spiritual tyrants.   This was Jesus.   Born of a virgin, He entered this world to walk the walk of man.   He left Heaven and became God incarn

  If Ever I Could Lok Down Upon Thee Philippians 3:4  “ Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: ”      I am a man.   I am a white man.   I am a white man of European decent.   Furthermore, I am an educated man.   I am faithfully married to one wife.   Together we’ve had seven children.   I live in a big house which is almost paid for.   I am an American, born on American soil.   My credentials are many, but for what?      I could think myself better than.   I could limit myself in ministry.   I could deem some as untouchable and not worthy of my time, because you know, I’m not one of them .   Personal biased could ramp up and stifle the Spirit as I continued in my own safe circles never reaching to the undesirables.      But then, wouldn’t have I become undesirable?   Undesirable to God.      God holds a high bar when it comes to exaltation.   He says He will lift up the humble.   H

  The Incredible Seven Genesis 1      Moses wasn’t there so God told him what to write.   It is therefore the witness of God declaring Himself.   No man present.   Does this pose a problem?   Probably to some.      The question which lies at the heart of this account is this.   Could God have created according to the story ?   And if He couldn’t, it remains just a story.   A fictional telling like a tale spun around a campfire and handed down generation to generation.   Oh, still believing in the God of the Bible, yet He put the first chapter into metaphors so we could understand He was behind creation.   Like a bedtime story, God in complexity simplifying the start of the world.      But here’s the problem.   If I do that with something hard to believe like the creation account, what stops me from dismissing others?   Miracles?   Jesus didn’t do miracles.   The Red Sea crossing?   Well, you know there’s a scientific explanation for that one.   The list goes on.      God call

  Kirchoff’s Trajectory Genesis 11: 7  “ Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8  So the  Lord   scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. ” Acts 2: 7  “ And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8  And how hear we every man in our own tongue , wherein we were born? ” Acts 2: 34  For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, 35  Until I make thy foes thy footstool .      Kirchoff’s current law is rather simple.   The total current entering a node must equal the current leaving a node. In other words, current is not lost.   This is the conservation of current.      God has dealt with the world in conservation.   Nothing will be lost.   What was fragmented with be gathered.   Like a dish that falls o