Needing to Prove

I find that many people including myself seem to want to prove things to the world. Some want to prove there worth, some want to prove that they are better than others, others want to prove that they are cool... and the list goes on as if life is a competition against every one else that needs to be won. Proving things can be used as a good motivator but has has one down fall that kills the self worth of many. If this is all we hold on to, when (not if) we fail we will fall into depressed state because we can not be what we have tried so hard to be. One of the lies we are told is that you can do anything if your really try. You might respond to say that the person should learn from his failures and try again, but the statement can be proven false by one counter example. Many people in the third world want a better life and try really hard but fall short. So then there is a limit to our abilities and a maximum line of what we can reach as humans.

There is a solution that we all should listen to. We shouldn't do things to prove to the people around us because we can never please people for long and for the most part they are just interested in there own lives anyway but we should do things for the one True God that has done all for us, the one who really cares for us. The response to the the lie is Philippians 4:12 "I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me."

Deep Space

Here are some pretty amazing picture from the Hubble Space telescope. Pictures
The write up on the picture is located here
These stars and galaxies are billions of years old.

I'm posting this because there was a digg that was bashing Christians for being ignorant because they ignore things that don't fit there world view so I will post it here on my blog.

I'm not going to give you any answers but I'm going to give you some stuff that I've found.

Institute of Creation Research
to include the other side here is a wiki on Creation Science that I think is a good read

I don't like some of the arguments that ICR makes. Some seem to stem back to the first argument that the church made to Darwin (which is as far as I know are "Your wrong because the bible says so"), but they make some points the strongest is that evolution disobeys Newtons Second Law. Think of this, to follow Newtons second law before the big bang there had to be something more ordered and perfect hummmm let me think what could fit that.... Anyways that's just my train of thought. If you want to know what really happened ask someone who was there (lol).

To paraphrase something I heard that just because something is a myth doesn't mean it isn't true. The whole story about God wanting to create a world where there was such a thing as freedom and that people would have a choice. I would argue that God gave us everything and as the story in the bible says we messed things up. (Thanks for the idea Mark Kampen)

If your battling with whether the bible story is fact or not I leave that up to you and God because I can't give you an answer and a doubt anyone really can. If you read closly you actualy see two creation stories Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Genesis 2:4-25. I give you my prayers. For me God has shown himself to me to many times that it is impossible for my to even think that there is no God, unless I close my eye ears and all other senses and twiddle my thumbs (lol that came out funny, idea comes from C.S. Lewis).

Here are some words of advice "We live in a world where it is possible to believe there is no God, but it is impossible not to believe there is" It is like a perfect balance that just points back to the case that there has to be a God to create such a balance.

Long post and lots of links I guess it needed it.
God Bless

The Work done Together

Each one of us as Christians have been given a small part of God (Romans 12:6). Like a small part of a complete circle. We all see different parts of God If we choose, and believe me there is enough of God. There is a reason why the bible seems to contradict it's self many times, and the disciples complained about the difficulty of understanding Jesus (John 7:12 this verse doesn't fit 100% but it works for me), there is just so much God out there that it is hard to fit into the English language.

Let us take our bit and run with it in a way to win the race. Bringing my human spirit under complete control
Okay that is my paraphrase to read the real stuff look at the original verse 1 Corinthians 9:24 ish

I guess today is a bible verse day.

Why I don't like some of the new trends in churches

It feels like the new churches want to have a Corrie ten Boom faith with out the hardship of the Nazi rule. It feels like they ignore the pain and hardship out of the immediate church (sort of like how entertainment is). It feels like to me that they want to create heaven on earth. This is not the goal of the church at all. Heaven is saved for Heaven and I'm glad that it is there. I'm not saying that there should be no glory ... heaven like points but that is not the point of our life on earth. We should be focusing on following the will of God.

Overkill

I'm reading a book called Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America By Radley Balko. It make me angry at what the government is getting away with. It talks about how the SWAT teams are used in the United States. It talks about all the mistakes and people killed by the SWAT teams. How they are used to arrest white collar doctors, how they escalate the situation not deescalate it like police officers should and the list goes on. The book talks allot about how they like to show they have the power and want to scare the "Bad" people away. Radley Balko then goes and states that the lesson of history is the reverse, but we humans seem to like to play war. Hear is a quote "When the soldiers ride in, you should see those blacks scatter." said by an SWAT commander (Parenti, “SWAT Nation,” p. 16). So let us not try to escalate things but bring them down so we can fix the problem and not make it worse.