One of my sons pointed out to me that this weekend was the Alafia River Rendezvous in Polk County, Florida. Neither of us had heard about it before and so we decided to check it out, along with my daughter-in-law and my other son. The Rendezvous is hosted by the Florida Frontiersmen and has just [...]
A Universe Just for Us (Part 2)
This is a continuation of my discussion of the book Why the Universe is the Way It Is by Hugh Ross of Reasons to Believe. The questions dealt with in the book are: Why such a vast universe? - This was the topic of the first post. Why such an old universe? - the topic of this post. [...]
Life of Paul 26
As I said in my last post on the Life of Paul, Paul received a group of visitors from Corinth while he was in Ephesus. He had already written to the church there in a letter of which we don't have a copy. The visiting group brought a letter from the church (of which we [...]
A Universe Just for Us (Part 1)
A few months ago I wrote a couple of blogs about the Garden of Eden and how God specifically prepared the Garden as a special home for humanity. This is how the new heaven and earth discussed in Revelation is as well. God cares for us and wants to live with us. This recent Christmas [...]
Life of Paul 25
In the last Life of Paul post we saw Paul arrive in Ephesus during his third missionary journey. When we left him, Luke had just told us that he had completed two years of ministry in the region (Acts 19:10) - "This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 