Thursday, May 15, 2008

TWG - May 15, 2008

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TWG - May 15, 2008
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Exodus 1; Psalm 11; Matthew 15:21-39

Today is May 15, this is time with God, I’m Pastor Dennis - I’ve been waiting here for you. Welcome to our life transforming community. We are doing something of eternal significance. We are redeeming the time. That is one of the basic premises of TWG. We believe that what we do every day is so important that we must do the important things each day. That is why we read the word every Day

Yesterday was nothing out of the ordinary for me. I worked on our Growing Together Radio Broadcast. Half way through the message, the sound quality died, due to microphone failure, so I had to re-record half the message and try to match the same sound / tone quality in order to publish it. It should be on the net today. Marcia and Carole, the Awana leader from Melrose stopped in to talk Awana. We had a nice long meeting and discussed a lot of details that are helping to fill out our understanding of the program. Please pray for it. It will cost us nearly $ 1,000 to get this going and the same amount every year. That means God is going to have to provide. We are trusting Him. I finally got my phone bill fixed (I think) and I sent out several emails about church related things. I spoke to Vicki about our coming Missionary speaker this Sunday. Jayn sent me a picture of the raccoon that came to breakfast at her place! I put it on the blog at timewithgod.mypodcast.com. And after work, I went to work out with Kyle and Marcia. Kyle recorded a half a dozen intros to our Radio Broadcast.

This week’s theme verse is Romans 1:19-20. What may be known about God is plain enough, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

Since the creation God’s eternal power has been clearly seen! God is really powerful. There is no other realistic explanation for what we see around us. It took an infinite amount of power to create the starry universe. If there is no God, what could explain the vast expanse of space? Where did it come from? How could something so immense and so immeasurable just have come into existence by itself in the snap of a finger or even in a billion, billion years? It couldn’t! “Look ma, no space!” (fingers snap) “Look ma! I snapped my fingers and quintillions of tons of rock and earth suddenly appeared out of no where to make all the planets and stars! Just like that! Something from nothing!” That’s a stretch. Imagine a time when there was nothing. No time. No dirt. No space. No stars. NOTHING. How does something come from nothing? It doesn’t. Try an experiment. Take a glass jar and sterilize it. Seal it up tight and wait a lifetime, or even a million, million lifetimes. Then look inside to see if the universe or a star or anything else is beginning to form. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. It’s empty. Why? Because something can’t come from nothing… but wait it ISN’T empty! Because in your jar, there is no way to suck out all the invisible matter and leave nothing inside. And what’s inside is bumping up against the glass – that’s something. There are still unnumbered atoms and molecules that you can’t see that are in there! You can’t get them out! So the experiment is a failure. In your experiment you couldn’t get something to come from something! What if there really was a “jar” with nothing in it, I mean really nothing. No atoms, no molecules, no DNA, no basic building blocks – just emptiness. How can we expect something to come from nothing if we can’t get something to come from something? A scientist once took a jar and filled it with the basic building blocks of life… to approximate primordial slime. He hooked it to a machine and sent electrical shocks through it at regular intervals, day after day, and week after week. He wanted to try to create life in the laboratory just like evolution said it did billions of years ago. His experiment was a dismal failure. He couldn’t even get something to come from something! He even started with slime and electricity and it didn’t work. I’d say, just as a casual, untrained observer, that God has to be pretty powerful to make something from nothing. All the stars in all the skies in all the universe testify of the power of the almighty creator. And by the way, God might have something to say for the evolutionary scientist… “If you really want to try to make something from nothing, get your own primordial slime!”

Dear Almighty God. You are truly powerful. When I contemplate on the starry universe I realize just how immense you are. I can’t imagine all the power it took just to create the first bit of matter, but you brought It into existence with a word! This bit of matter will bow the knee to you in humility. I am blessed to be your special creation!

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