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10/10/2022 0 Comments

Trees and Fungi

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Suzanne Simard is the tree professor at the University of British Columbia.[1] She discovered through her research that yew trees communicate chemically through fungi with their neighboring trees for mutual defense. Trees are connected below ground through a fungi network that resembles the human brain’s neural networks. For example, Simard observed a Douglas fir injured by insects that seemingly passed chemical warning messages to a nearby ponderosa. The pine tree produced defense enzymes that protected it against insects. Similarly, birch trees protected fir from Armillaria root disease. When trees are dying, they pass off as much as 40% of their carbon to their neighboring trees.

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6/25/2021 0 Comments

I Identify As . . .

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While at a golf fundraising event I saw a marine veteran wearing a t-shirt that proclaimed, “I Identify As Vaccinated.” It radiated humor but was actually rather brilliant. It subtly broadcast with absurdity the politically-correct notion that someone can identify as whatever gender they desire. As the federal government moves to require schools to accommodate transgender students not surprisingly there is an immediate push back. College of the Ozarks is suing President Joe Biden because his executive order on “gender identity” violates the school’s religious freedom by compelling it to force their students to share dorms and shower facilities with members of the opposite sex.[1] So let’s take a closer, deeper look at the whole issue of identity. ​

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11/30/2020 1 Comment

Unexploded

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Did you know that there are approximately 80 million landmines that are lying around the world active and unexploded?[1]  Did you know that in Tanzania APOPO is a charity that trains rats so that they can detect landmines?  Meet Magawa.  This African Giant Pouched Rat is larger than the average rat but light enough to walk over a mine without setting it off.  It took nine months to train him in the art of detection before shipping him to Cambodia. ​

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2/6/2020 0 Comments

Genesis

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​Walt Henrichsen, a godly man now in heaven, once said, “For the Christian, the only reliable revelation of God is the Bible.”  Reading the Bible is a great adventure in the pursuit of wisdom.  And the first book, Genesis, is incredibly important.  If we study Genesis we learn amazing truths and this initial book helps explain the following 65 books.  Why is Genesis so important?  ​

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1/15/2020 0 Comments

Worldview

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​Ravi Zacharias wrote a book entitled The Logic of God.  In chapter one, “Behind Every Question,” he notes that whether a person is religious or irreligious, everyone has a worldview.  A worldview basically addresses four necessary questions: origin, meaning, morality and destiny.   A well-designed worldview should have true answers to each question and the answers overall should be coherent.  Ravi further shares three tests for truth which must be applied to any worldview: logical consistency, empirical adequacy and experiential relevance.[1]

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5/14/2019 0 Comments

Why We Were Created

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Sometimes to understand the present we have to examine the past.  Purposeless people wander the earth and wonder what is the meaning of life?  Fortunately for us, the Bible clearly defines why God created us.  If we look to the past, King David prayed, “Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to You. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all”(1 Chronicles 29:11).  David recognized that everything belonged to God and that He was therefore exalted.  The prophet Isaiah wrote “Bring My sons from far away, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—everyone called by My name and created for My glory. I have formed him; indeed, I have made him” (Isa. 43:6b,7).  Isaiah tells us that we were created for God’s glory—this is our purpose.  


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12/12/2014 0 Comments

Starlight

Palmer Bailey, “the stars and rocks guy,” shares with us some fascinating information about starlight.  By carefully examining stars we can learn some amazing things. Did you know that the color of a star is determined by its surface temperature? The hottest stars are almost blue, less hot are white and even cooler are those that are red.  And while stars may look clustered closely together from our vantage, they may in fact be from entirely different galaxies.    

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10/27/2014 0 Comments

How Wolves Change Rivers

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Genesis 1:25—So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds.  And God saw that it was good.  
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3/13/2013

Grass

​Do you know what one of the largest family species on earth is? Grass!  Commonly known as Gramineaethere are more than 9,000 known species of grass. God created grass to provide a major food source worldwide. Rice, corn and oats come from grass plants. Grass plants provide helpful ingredients for making sugar, bread and even plastics. Grass is used in construction (bamboo). It is also invaluable in combating erosion. 

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2/20/2012

Bernoulli's Spiral

Jacob Bernoulli was born in Basel, Switzerland. As a young man, he studied theology and entered the ministry.  Later he studied mathematics and astronomy.   Traveling throughout Europe from 1676 to 1682, Jacob learned about the latest discoveries in mathematics and the sciences.[1]First described by RenéDescartes, Bernoulli extensively investigated the logarithmic spiral.   “This equiangular spiralor growth spiralis a special kind of spiral curve which often appears in nature.”[2]  Jacob called it Spira mirabilis, “the marvelous spiral”.  


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6/26/2011

Anodyne

On my flight to Minneapolis I sat next to a fascinating gentleman. He is a successful economist who asked if I would be interested in reading his paper on solving our nation’s current economic woes. I read it with interest and afterwards as our conversation turned to things more personal, he shared his story. It was obvious that Walt* lived most of his six plus decades working through much physical pain and challenge.  Forced to take an assortment of medicines and constantly in need of relief I asked him if he had God in his gut (in the context of the conversation that meant did he have the Lord to help him through his stomach issues).  He said “no” but that he did believe there was a higher power. 


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10/24/2010

Jupiter

​Scientist Palmer Bailey, “the stars and rocks guy” airs a heavenly radio segment each week called The Northern Sky.   In a fresh broadcast he shared that the planet Venus, after the Moon, is the brightest natural object in the night sky and is referred to as the “evening star.”  Normally we see it in the southwest.  However, as Palmer tells us, recently the brightest star in the sky has not been Venus but rather Jupiter.  Once every thirteen months the earth passes Jupiter in its slower, larger orbit an event called “opposition” because Jupiter appears in the eastern sky exactly the opposite direction from the setting sun.  

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9/20/2009 0 Comments

Angels

​On several occasions, I have read or heard amazing testimonies of people who experienced God’s deliverance via angels from an enemy intent on their destruction.  God’s Word extensively teaches us about angels with over a 105 references to them in the Old Testament and more than 170 times in the New Testament.  The Bible teaches that angels:

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3/26/2009

Scientism

​Have you ever met a scientist who was an agnostic or atheist?  Chances are high that such a person may have seemed intimidating when it came to sharing faith in God because in this person’s view, religion is essentially unverifiable superstition.  Scientific naturalists who suppose “science is the paradigm of truth and rationality,” believe in scientism.*  

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1/8/2009 0 Comments

One Star

​Coffee Cottage is a popular coffee shop near George Fox University.  One of their favorite draws for students is the free wireless service.   Often I come in to find many tables occupied with folks writing papers or working projects on their laptops.  But unless a person knew that wireless was free and available, they could work on their computer and have no idea they could access internet connection capability simply by asking for the password.

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5/24/2007

Creation II

​If someone offered you a house with no foundation would you take it?  I suppose if you lived somewhere where no storms or catastrophes occurred that would be okay.  But, since no place on earth is trouble-proof, it is exceedingly wise to build upon a strong foundation.   Now imagine sharing that Jesus is the Savior with someone who has never heard the gospel. Jesus’ mission prophesied in Isaiah 42 was to fulfill God’s promise to rescue people, to be a light to open blind eyes. Jesus told His disciples in Mark 16:15 that the whole creation should hear the good news about Him.  But too often this news only concerns Jesus coming to earth, living a sinless life and dying on the cross to save us.  Left out is the incredible part of why He came in the first place.   If we don’t understand the whole reason for Jesus coming we have a foundationless house! We need to take people back to the beginning . . . 

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3/17/2006 0 Comments

Duplicity

​Recently I needed to set up DSL over a phone line for a ministry I serve.  When I called the phone company, (which will go unnamed), to set up the service, the line was answered by a voice-automated machine. The options I was presented did not help me so I repeatedly stated that I wanted to speak with an operator. Finally, the emotionless computer relented and patched me to a real voice.  I set up the service thinking I would receive the special discount the company offered.  But the price quoted to me was different and much higher.  The salesperson explained that we would receive a substantial rebate, but in fact, we would over time lose much money because the contractual cost was too high. 

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10/20/2003

Fullness

​The 301 complex overlooks a valley framed by gently rolling California hills. When the round red ball of heat sinks the view is amazing.  Several nights ago after the sun had vanished, I stopped walking and stood transfixed by the beauty of a mature oak tree in front of an expansive sky wearing a bluish hue I don’t ever remember seeing before.  I wished the moment would last as I thanked God for His painting.   

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10/17/2002

Design

​Author of Origins of Life, theoretical physicist Freeman J. Dyson says, “As we look out into the universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked to our benefit, it almost seems as if the universe must in some sense have known that we were coming.”  Hmm.  It’s not the universe that knew we were coming!  

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7/6/2001

Emancipated

​Once upon a time, fireworks were created by a loving Creator. But alas, the first two fireworks made were deceived by their Designer’s enemy into believing they could perform as equals to their Maker.  Their rebelliousness tainted every succeeding generation of firework with a “My pop’s bigger than your pop!” mentality.

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