BibleStudent100

The Pharisees personally witnesses many miracles and even resurrections that Jesus performed, but they resolutely refused to believe in Jesus. So how much more so will atheists see what we see (the abundance of proof of creation that surrounds us) and still deny Christian reality and then go another step: condemn and ridicule us.

I appreciate your humble attitude and your demeanor of personal growth through deep honesty with God. It is hard sometimes to have this free will of openness toward God.

So what happens when dozens of countries have ballistic missiles and cruise type missiles? Will countries just start launching rockets and missiles at each other? Conventional warfare as we know it is over? No soldiers are on the front line anymore? We all know that the US learned that to "take over" a country you need at some point to "put boots on the ground," but if a sovereign state is in a punishing mode, then simply lob rockets and missiles at other countries. Evidently, Hezbollah has tens of thousands of rockets at the southern border of Lebanon all aimed toward Israel. Rockets are being fired from Yemen toward ships in the Straight of Hormuz and it seems like it is difficult to attack the direct source of said rocketry.

I enjoyed George Whitten's sermon from March 31 of 2024, in which he says that the focus should be on spreading the gospel versus focusing on when the End of the World will come. After all, Matthew 25:13 reminds us: "Keep on the watch, therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour."

Agreed! Somewhere there needs to be a balance between the words uttered and special effects used in a sermon. When I speak in a capacity of a lay minister at the my church, I use a couple of still images only during my 30 minutes of preaching. The use of sparkling/dazzling lighting effects is new one!

To the degree that you are comfortable, would you like to share the details of these two miracles?

How great that you are distributing Bibles; how is the effort to offer Bible studies with these individuals so that they understand what they are reading?

Interesting perspective; I have not thought about this matter in such a way. Maybe the "world" will "invent" more pervisity, pervisity that we never have even imagined!

Does anyone know what the working on this billboard says?

Are you referring to a power point slide/s? Do some ministers go overboard on the visual slides/videos? Just wondering.

Well said brother!

The Devil knows our sinful proclivities and he exploits these weaknesses. Personally, I have never had a weakness toward substance abuse (I have never been drunk, nor have done drugs, nor tobacco, etc.) and I "don't get it" why others have these weaknesses, but that is human nature: we "don't get it," until we ourselves have the same problem. My weakness (not surprisingly): being self-righteous, something I struggle with daily.

Jedi4, I am not sure what your point is. It seems the physics is quite straight-forward. What I would like to point out is that the celestial phenomenon from yesterday SHOULD make us even MORE appreciative of the awesome power of God and how He continues to awe us with his capabilities so that one is moved to worship Him (Ps 89:7; Isa 29:23)! Christians are encouraged to “render God sacred service with godly fear and awe” (Heb 12:28). God’s servants give evidence of this awe by earnestly striving to please Him, recognizing that he will call all to account and render judgment without partiality.—1Pe 1:17; Re 14:7. What I found interesting is that on the national news accounts from yesterday, broadcasters were talking about the "spiritual" nature of the eclipse, but the "spiritual" essence of that moving event was NOT tied in with the Bible, nor with God. People now days have an odd definition of "spirituality" that does NOT involve God.

As a public high school teacher in Southern California, I see a whole lot of anti-Christian behavior on the part of our born and breed "native" American population; additionally; many of these students have little interest in learning (i.e. academically lazy) and feel entitled to what America has to offer. Many of these immigrants are at least willing to come here and try to learn English and are willing to work hard!

Before COVID 19, I would have thought that an epidemic was a straight-forward health crisis impacting the world and that medical expertise would have been united in its approach toward a virus. Never did I perceive that COVID 19 would become so politicized. Although being one to saddle up to health expertise with little questioning, I now too have questions about this past pandemic and all the ancillary questions it has raised. But my biggest question is this: What will happen, politically, socially, economically the NEXT time we have a deadly virus that spreads through the world? What will be our response as a nation and as Christians? I fear more Americans will be incredulous (for good reason) and that the transmission requirements imposed by the governing officials will not be followed, thereby increasing the chaos more as this future virus spreads unchecked. In other words, if we thought there was confusion and turmoil on COVID 19, wait until the next virus slams into us!