Every Evil Thing

Confusion seems to be an epidemic in the church, caused by a nasty germ called deception.

As Christians, we need to keep clarity. Our faith is not a blind faith!

2 Corinthians 5:7 says we walk by faith and not by sight but this doesn't mean we close our eyes to what is going on around us. It doesn't mean we believe everything that we hear taught from the pulpit or from our friends.

I don't know where this topic came from. . .it's on my mind all of a sudden, but I think it may come from this verse I read this morning:
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law. (Psalm 119:18)
The Bereans were noted in Scripture "that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so." (Acts 17:11)
We must take everything we hear and compare it to the truth of the Bible before we begin to let it alter the way we live.

Christianity is not for people who want to leave their minds behind along with their common sense.

2 Timothy 1:7 tells us:
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Compare this to the religions that use mind-altering substances such as drugs and alcohol. Seriously, the heck?! These and even other religions (including some denominations of Christianity) that don't use mind altering substances can have a great amount of hullabaloo and chaos, but that's not what God wants.

1 Corinthians 14 has a good-sized text stating that church meetings are to be orderly.
Verse 33 reads:
For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints


I have been hearing all around me lately that you have to learn to love yourself before you love others. This really gets me fired up! WE DON'T NEED TO LEARN TO LOVE OURSELVES!!!! We already do. It's natural. You may say, oh I hate myself, I'm such a terrible person. Yeah, you are a sinner. I already knew that. "self-hate" is pride! Admit you're a sinner, because it is true! But to say that your life doesn't mean anything is to say that God is wrong--he didn't create you for grins and giggles. He has a purpose for your life. You are made in his image. So, you hate what God made?

Ephesians 5:29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.

We are to live a life of humility and service to each other, and not look for ways to serve ourselves, but to serve the body.

James 3:16
For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

Note: because English is not a very precise and accurate language, to some "loving oneself" is simply to take care of themselves. In the Bible health and hygiene are clearly supported. We are also told multiple times that our bodies our God's temple, housing the Holy Spirit. What I am speaking against is consistently putting personal wants and pleasures before the needs and even pleasures of others. Our need for food and sleep should lead to our humility because we must realise God made us to need those things. We are not self-sufficient but depend on Him and on other people for our well-being. And if you are responsible for another person (your child/ren, of if you are a man, your wife), then you must take care of them before giving of your time and resources to others. 1 Timothy 5:8 tells us: But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Light & Darkness

Light has no true opposite. No, darkness and light are not on the same plane. See, light is measurable. It consists of waves and particles. Light consists of colour. It can be bent, separated, altered, and it can travel through a filter. Darkness cannot. Darkness is not a thing, but merely the absence of light. An interesting thing I realised is that technically light is both an abstract and a concrete noun-it is truly unique in that it is an idea and intangible but it is also made up of particles which would seem to qualify it is a concrete noun. Interesting to note that light in the Bible is considered to be 'good' and darkness 'evil,' as darkness is the absence of light so evil is the absence of good. Note that in the Genesis account there was darkness before God created light. How could it exist if God didn't create it? Because it isn't a thing-just the absence of one. So too, God the creator of all things didn't create evil-evil exists where his goodness is not, where man expels God.

Genesis 1
1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

3Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

4God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?"

A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"

"God created everything?" The professor asked.

"Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created evil. And, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."

The student became quiet and did not answer the professor's hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question, professor?"

"Of course", replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The other students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"


Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The young man's name -- Albert Einstein

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

Oh Compie!

Ugh this just made me mad, so my next computer definitely won't be a mac. I'm sure all the PC companies would have similar views, but I haven't heard them yet.

I read this off the Apple start page today:

No on Prop 8

Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8.



If you wanna call me narrow-minded, go read this entire blog and you will see what I have to say about homosexuality

Heavenlies [sequel to "Time (But God)"]

I ended up getting the words to "Heavenlies," written by my youth pastor, Evan Wickham. I highly recommend his album "Mysterious Things" (this song is not on it) Also, watch for some new music. I think his wife told me he's got 3 projects going (okay that was quite a while ago she told me that, so I'm not sure if he's still doing all of them)

I'm waiting for the time
I look into your eyes
And I am there with You my God
I'm waiting for the day
You wipe these tears away
And I am there with you my God

In Your glory all adoring in awe
I will bow down in your presence my God
I'm living for the heavenlies
I'm living for the heavenlies
When all of you is all I see
I'm living for the heavenlies

I want to run to win In this race I'm in
Let Heaven's work begin in me
When Your reward is mine
When I cross that line
And hear Your words
"Well done, my love"

In Your glory all adoring in awe
I will bow down in Your presence my God
I'm living for the heavenlies
I'm living for the heavenlies
When all of you is all I see
I'm living for the heavenlies

--Evan Wickham

If you're a citizen of heaven, are you living for the heavenlies? Do people know you as a citizen based on your life? God is on the throne and will be worshiped for all eternity. Are you living a life of worship? I actually have a Bible study on my iPod that Evan taught 2 years ago titled, "Worship" Worship, as he says, is worthship--ascribing worth to God. Is your life a life that brings glory, honour and praise to God? Worship is more than singing. It's a lifestyle.

Stupid blogger, what I had ^ before was better and it deleted it because it's "temporarily unavailable" they say the scheduled outage is at 8 PDT. Well its like 1 PDT!!!

Every Season

I like the song Every Season by Nichole Nordeman.

yes she is one of my favourite artists!

I'm so excited about Fall here. It snowed a couple of inches last night! I was in the hot tub watching it snow. Most of the snow melted (it wasn't even that warm today!) but there is still some where it was shady. I can't wait till the next snow. I just don't like ice. I slipped a few times today, but was able to keep my balance. Falling on ice hurts! I'd never really seen snow fall--only once at camp, but I had bad memories, as it was just the right amount to all turn to ice.

It looks cool to see green grass poking through patches of snow.

Pharma 23

The Psych is my shepherd;

I shall not want.

He maketh me to sit down in green armchairs:

He giveth me a glass of still water.

He shalt "restore my soul! And leadeth me down the path of the
pharmaceuticals for my own sake!"

Yea(h), even though I shalt then walk through

the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil:

For Selective Serotonin Reuptake

Inhibitors art with me!

Thy words though they're lies, they comfort me.

Thou preparest a prescription before me for

presentation to mine chemist: thou anointest my

Brain with drugs; my serotonin runneth over.

Surely Big Pharma shall haunt me

all the days of my life: and I shalt live

in a brain badly damaged

forever.