1. Most people on the island love to stand and gawk at the bule (white people).
2. 21 hour plane rides will cause you to lose your mind.
3. They love to pour peanut sauce all over the sate. (shish kabobs)
4. Houses with penguins on them can be considered a sign from the Lord. (story to follow later :) )
5. People associate Americans with the few English phrases they know (e.g. I Love You, I Miss You, How Are You) and Obama. They will shout any of those things out at you as you pass. It is especially funny when they say OBAMA, OBAMA. I never knew I looked like him!
It takes plenty of faith, boys, plenty of faith.
"Evolution requires plenty of faith: a faith in L-proteins
that defy chance formation; a faith in the formation of
DNA codes which if generated spontaneously would spell
only pandemonium; a faith in a primitive environment
that in reality would fiendishly devour any chemical
precursors to life; a faith in experiments that prove
nothing but the need for intelligence in the beginning; a
faith in a primitive ocean that would not thicken
but would only hopelessly dilute chemicals; a faith
in natural laws of thermodynamics and biogenesis that
actually deny the possibility for the spontaneous generation
of life; a faith in future scientific revelations that when realized
always seem to present more dilemmas to the evolutionist;
faith in improbabilities that treasonously tell two stories—one
denying evolution, the other confirming the creator; faith
in transformations that remain fixed; faith in mutations and
natural selection that add to a double negative for evolution;
faith in fossils that embarrassingly show fixity through time,
regular absence of transitional forms and striking testimony to
a worldwide water deluge; a faith in time which proves to only
promote degradation in the absence of mind; and faith in
reductionism that ends up reducing the materialist’s arguments
to zero and facing the need to invoke a supernatural creator."
—R.L. Wysong, The Creation-Evolution
Controversy (1981), p. 455.
Evolution would require incredible miracles; and it matters not whether they be fast or slow. They would still be incredible miracles.
"Slowness has really nothing to do with the question. An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one."
—*G.K. Chesterton (1925).
By deifying *Darwin, men have retarded the progress of science.
"Just as pre-Darwinian biology was carried out by people whose faith was in the Creator and His plan, post-Darwinian biology is being carried out by people whose faith is in, almost, the deity of Darwin. They’ve seen their task as to elaborate his theory and to fill the gaps in it, to fill the trunk and twigs of the tree. But it seems to me that the theoretical framework has very little impact on the actual progress of the work in biological research. In a way some aspects of Darwinism and of neo-Darwinism seem to me to have held back the progress of science."—*Colin Patterson, The Listener (senior paleontologist, British Museum of Natural History, London).
Evolution is based on faith alone, for there is no fact to accompany it.
"What is it [evolution] based upon? Upon nothing whatever but faith, upon belief in the reality of the unseen—belief in the fossils that cannot be produced, belief in the embryological experiments that refuse to come off. It is faith unjustified by works."—*Arthur N. Field.
"Acceptance of evolution is still based on a great deal of faith."
—L.W. Klotz, Lutheran Witness Reporter, November 14, 1965 [college science teacher].
It has become the great religion of science.
"In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to ‘bend’ their observations to fit in with it."—*H. Lipson, "A Physicist Looks at Evolution," Physics Bulletin 31 (1980), p. 138.
It gives to mankind the most incredible of deities: random chance.
"The irony is devastating. The main purpose of Darwinism was to drive every last trace of an incredible God from biology. But the theory replaces God with an even more incredible deity: omnipotent chance."—*T. Rosazak, Unfinished Animal (1975), pp. 101-102.
It is a creed dispensed by the intellectuals to the great masses of mankind.
"Darwinism is a creed not only with scientists committed to document the all-purpose role of natural selection. It is a creed with masses of people who have at best a vague notion of the mechanism of evolution as proposed by Darwin, let alone as further complicated by his successors."—*S. Jaki, Cosmos and Creator (1982).
It is an entrenched dogma that substitutes for religion.
"[Karl] Popper warns of a danger: ‘A theory, even a scientific theory, may become an intellectual fashion, a substitute for religion, an entrenched dogma.’ This has certainly been true of evolutionary theory."—*Colin Patterson, Evolution (1977), p. 150.
It is the underlying mythology in the great temple of modern atheism.
"Evolution is sometimes the key mythological element in a philosophy that functions as a virtual religion."—*E. Harrison, "Origin and Evolution of the Universe," Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia (1974), p. 1007.
Evolution Handbook.
Are you at the end of the rope? Weary, cast down, about to give up? I challenge you to answer the following questions with a simple yes or no:
Does the Word of God promise to supply all your needs?
Did Jesus say he would never leave you, but would be with you to the end?
Did he say he would keep you from falling and present you faultless before the Father’s throne?
Did he say that he would supply you with all you need at all times?
Did he promise you all the seed you need to spread the gospel?
Is he more willing to give than you are to receive?
Your answer to all of these should be, “Absolutely, yes!”
Now—take inventory. Ask yourself, Do I really believe God is faithful to his word or do I waver in my trust?
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptation; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord” (James 1:2-7).
You can lay hold of God’s wisdom, all the wisdom needed to solve life’s problems—if you will believe with no wavering by casting your very life and future on this promise.
God giveth to all men…liberally…wisdom.
David Wilkerson
This was in my email today. what an encouragement.
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Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
-Psalm 20:7
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses.The most terrible instrument of war in David's day was the war chariot, which mowed down opposing wariors like grass: the very sight of them, melted men's hearts. yet the discerning eye of faith sees more in an invisible God than in all these horrific machines of destruction.
Saints should consider the name of Jehovah to be a far better defence.
Alas, how many of us, who profess to be His, are depending upon the arm of flesh in some shape or other.
the name of the LORD our God. The name of God is Yahweh; the self existent, independent, immutable, ever present, all filling I AM. May the Holy Spirit reveal it to your soul!
Isaiah 31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, And rely on horses, Who trust in chariots because they are many, And in horsemen because they are very strong, But who do not look to the Holy One of Israel, Nor seek the LORD!
Proverbs 21:31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle, But deliverance is of the LORD.
