Greetings Again!

I just have to tell you all, a very compelling archeological situation is stirring up again… What would you think to learn Noah’s ark is for real and has been found?

Visit: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2949640/Noahs-Ark-found-in-Turkey.html

I have debated anti-Christians many times, and not a few of them lambasted the “Noah’s Ark Fairy Tale”.

I actually kept an online debate I engaged in back in 2001…. Here’s a snippet. My handle is “callmeguilty”.

fred_flinstonensis: Now then
fred_flinstonensis: How did the Kiwi bird get down from Mt. Ararat and get to New Zealand
fred_flinstonensis: How could they have read the [expletive] road map?

callmeguilty: fred: how do you explain everything?
callmeguilty: brb…. phone

fred_flinstonensis: callmeguilty It is easy to torpedo Noah’s Ark
fred_flinstonensis: The ark would have been a deathtrap since it would never have floated
fred_flinstonensis: ANd how many termites were there on Noah’s Ark of Gopherwood?

GremlinDotNet: callmeguilty is actually suggesting that Noah’s Ark was a true story?

fred_flinstonensis: How did God preserve the precious viruses and bacteria?  Were Noah and his family infested with lice crabs, gonnerhea, warts, the flu, measles etc while they were shoveling [expletive] in the ark for 300 days?

callmeguilty: fred fred fred….. so many questions

fred_flinstonensis: callmeguilty not questions: problems

callmeguilty: fred: shall we PM each other? (PM means Private Message)

fred_flinstonensis: no PMs

callmeguilty: fred:   why not?

fred_flinstonensis: except hot girl;s

callmeguilty: fred: ha ha

fred_flinstonensis: can you imagine all of those blind cave crickets and all of the dinosaurs and all of the kiwi bird stumbling down the side of Mt/ Ararat and finding their way to different parts of the world without leaving a trace of [sic] there having been there?

fred_flinstonensis: if the flood actually happened how come 170 species of cichlid fishes settled out of the biblical brine into Lake Victoria – but not into any other lake in the world, including lakes only several miles from Lake Victoria?

callmeguilty: fred: natural selection

And so it went… Anyhow, I wonder how people like fred_flinstonesis (as in Genesis) would take the news. 😉

Now, lemme get to this week’s message on love. Our verse for the next month starts out like this…

1^st Corinthians 13:7a
Love… bears all things…

You know something? Understanding this can be easy…

Just think of God. Then think of your years of rejecting God while indulging in sin. Then came the day you realized just how wicked you are, and yet God loved you all the while. And if you repented and yielded your everything to Him as your Lord in faith, He forgave you all of it and lovingly covered your sins with the blood of His own Son.

Oh what magnificent mercy and grace with lovingkindness!

Looking at your salvation this way, can you see how Love… bears all things?

God was bearing all those transgressions you committed against Him, and yet He still loved you and forgave you, if indeed you’re a child of His.

With our transformation from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light, we have the capacity to love as Christ loved us.

Likewise, we should be able to bear much more than we have in past times, right! Consider your trials and temptations? Have you been bearing the sins of those around you? If not, then begin to see those offenses as opportunities to demonstrate love in forgiveness.  Has your faith been exercised by resisting/ fleeing temptations? The love shed abroad in you makes you able!

Take the Apostle John’s words for it…

1^st John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Nothing has to be unbearable to a Christ-follower…

**Comments/ questions/ testimonies/ objections most encouraged!

Dear Lord, thank you for this time to consider Your word and Your ways. May our thoughts, words, and deeds bring You glory… and glory to You alone. –Amen

Peace,
Jim