Divorce: The Cancer of Marriage

On August 16, 2009, Sam Woods spoke at Rocky Creek Baptist Church on the topic of marriage and divorce. You can listen to the message on you ipod or your computer.

"Divorce: The Cancer of Marriage"- Sam Woods of Family Fortress Ministry

Sam's message is so important today as cohabitation, divorce, and non-traditional definitions of marriage become more common. What is the ideal marriage? How are we to act when married? Are marriage definitions changing? Find out so many wonderful truths about marriage by checking out this message.

I was also very excited to find out that Sam has copies of a movie version of "Pilgrim's Progress." I had no idea someone already had made a movie of this book. I cannot wait to get a copy and watch it.

YouTube - 99 Balloons

eBay store open (again)

I am opening an eBay store again. I want to do my part to help our ailing economy but still keep the lifestyle flexible.

eBay store for Cox Computer

Heard this song on WYEP today.

Dance Like a Monkey (New York Dolls)

It's quite funny and I liked the "evolution is obsolete" message:



"wooooooo wooooooo

You're designed so intelligent
Ain't no way that was an accident
C'mon shake your monkey hips
My pretty little creationist

Oh yeah!

Ain't gonna anthropomorphise you
Or perversely polymorphisise you - yeah
Little girl you look so sweet
You gotta dance like a monkey, dance like a monkey, child
You just started ten thousand years ago
Presto Adam and Eve and go man go
Abel died, Cain took his life
And headed straight to the jungle to find a wife - wow!
Non-believers blame it all on apes
It's monkey time - I want to see you shake
Evolution is obsolete

You gotta dance like a monkey, dance like a monkey, child
Stomp your hands and clap your feet
You gotta dance like a monkey, dance like a monkey, child
Oh one more time yo!It's monkey time!!"

Book review: "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

This is the first book that I would use to introduce Christianity to a atheist or secular humanist. It has a very scientific and historical case for the Christian faith using the logical pathways of an atheist.



Also, as a person trying to be a better "little Christ" as Lewis puts it, I strengthened my faith and desire for Christ by reading this book. Being a Christian is not outdated, old-fashioned, or simplistic. It is difficult, and requires a great deal of willpower and brainpower while at the same time being easy. Christianity is no 48 day or 12 week program. It takes a lifetime and an eternal one at that.

Highly recommended for atheists, non-Christians, and Christians alike.

One of my favorite sections was on page 222:

"Again and again [the world] has thought Christianity was dying by persecutions from without and corruptions from within, by the rise of [Islam], the rise of the physical sciences, the rise of great anti-Christian revolutionary movements. But every time the world has been disappointed. Its first disappointment was over the crucifixion. The Man came to life again. In a sense - and I realise how frightfully unfair it must seem to them - that has been happening ever since. They keep on killing the thing that He started: and each time, just as they are patting down the earth on its grave, they suddenly hear it is still alive and has broken out in some new place. No wonder they hate us."

Other book reviews of mine on Visual Bookshelf.

Atheism: Sorry, you're too simple

I am in the middle of reading C.S. Lewis' book "Mere Christianity". I plan to sum up my thoughts an post a review on virtual bookshelf. Two very interesting points have arisen so far.

The author mentions that atheism assumes that life had no designer, no single being or mind behind everything we see. Usually, atheists subscribe to creation theory along the lines of the big bang and evolution. First of all, these are not "new" ideas at all. This type of idea has been around since time began. There is simply "new" yet often faulty evidence being cited for these Godless ideas. Atheism then assumes that complex things can be made from chance events occurring over long periods of time. They have to repeat over and over ad infinitum that the earth has been around a very very long time or the theory can be stopped at the start. Yet, carbon dating extrapolation is no more scientific than palm readings.

I like Clive Staples' offensive stance on this. As a former atheist, he can speak from a position of knowing some of the rationale. He sums his viewpoint up by saying that atheism, is just too simple of an explanation. Isn't life more complicated even though we often desire some polly-anna oversimplification to explain how life came to be? I agree.

Another important point he makes is that many people hold to previous paths of thinking and tradition to keep up appearances, to keep a job or career on track, or even keep a worldview like atheism or secular humanism. Yet, if one is heading in the wrong direction, it's the person who reverses direction first that is really ahead. Again, yes, I have often been on a path that was the wrong direction. It's better to turn now than continue the path to "keep up appearances." Turn now, before it is too late.

Update on Pastor Hagee's Health | John Hagee Ministries

Good news from San Antonio! John Hagee will be back in the pulpit this week!

Update on Pastor Hagee's Health | John Hagee Ministries