Good or bad fruit
Jan 28
"Every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit" (John 15:2). As Christ emphasized in His parable of the vine and the branches, it is vitally important for a Christian to bear fruit. There are, in fact, many types of spiritual fruit mentioned in Scripture. Perhaps the most important fruit, produced in one's life by the Holy Spirit, is that of a Christ-like character. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance" (Galatians 5:22-23). "For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth" (Ephesians 5:9).
The "I will’s" of Jesus Christ
Jan 14
"And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth His hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean" (Mark 1:41). When the Lord Jesus makes a promise, that promise is sure to be fulfilled. When He made the above promise to the leper, "immediately the leprosy departed from him" (Mark 1:42). The promise may not always be carried out as rapidly as this, but it will come. Look at some of the wonderful "I will's" of Christ. "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men" (Matthew 4:19) is His promise to all His true disciples (that is, those who follow Him). But first they must come to Him, and to those who come He promises: "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6:37).
Little Green Men
Jan 07Little Green Men? The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." Believe it or not, there is an astronomical object called LGM-1—the letters of which stand for ‘Little Green Men’. This was the first pulsar ever discovered. A pulsar is a very dense star which rotates so rapidly that it sends out extremely regular ‘pulses’ of radio waves. The scientists who discovered this hitherto unknown, strangely regular signal, flashing its pulses every one-and-a-third seconds, were puzzled. Perhaps this was in fact some alien civilization trying to contact us, they somewhat facetiously suggested to each other. Anyway, the name stuck. But would scientists seriously contemplate such an idea as Little Green Men? In fact, this year millions of US tax-payers’ dollars are being spent on a massive search for just that. NASA magazine in 1991 stated that on the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing, on October 12, 1992, scientists were to begin exploring for other worlds by ‘listening to distant stars for signs that humans are not alone in the universe’.
Creation and the Sciences
Jan 01
"So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them" (Genesis 1:27).
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