Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Faith, Family, Sports, And Everything In Between: New Baby

Faith, Family, Sports, And Everything In Between: New Baby

Monday, July 30, 2012

New Baby

So we have been ready to have our third baby for a while now. And who wouldn't?
 The middle of the night feedings. The diaper changes. Buying diapers. New clothes.  Trying to see what they want, how much they want, and when they want it and how often they want it. Of course there's the making sure you hold their head just right. Making sure the bottle is the right temprature and that awful taste if you touch it to your tongue. Trying to make sure you dont wake them when it took two hours to get them to go to sleep.
That feeling when you get 5 hours of sleep instead of 1.5 hours of sleep.
Is that all really bad? Or is it putting extremely valuable time into something of extreme value. And we do it with no guarantee they will love us back. We do it because Jesus put it in our hearts to care.

The hours of hearing the heartbeat over a monitor. Praying it all works out for baby and momma.
The joy of seeing baby for the first time. And how fragile and dependent they are. Having your daughter wrap the smallest fingers you've ever seen around one of your fingers as if she already knows who her daddy is.

Now, as of July 21st, we have a third addition. A son named Phoenix Josiah. Its now been a week and I love him as if he's been here for years. He sleeps all the time. Eats every 2-3 hours. Has a ton of hair. And he's awesome. 
9 pounds 12 ounces and 21 inches long, curled legs and a head full of hair. He has little blond streaks. And sideburns. Yup. Just like me.

Its make me happy to have yet an even fuller home. More noise. More needs. More food. And much much more love.

Its what I do,
Josiah

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Evolution=Offending Monkeys

The theory of evolution means you have no purpose.
It tells you that you are an accident of some cosmic force or a random idea conceived by a soulless amoeba.
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION SAYS YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO EXIST!
The theory of evolution doesn't feed the hungry or clothe the naked or give jobs to the poor or bring medicine to a sick person. It doesn't give hope to the cutter or the suicidal. It doesn't bring peace to a troubled mind or courage to a fretting heart. It doesn't repair the hurt of a broken heart or give the comfort of seeing a lost loved one again.
Accident?


Our current society can be summed up in this paragraph:
You can abort your children. 48 million so far. If you choose to let them live, send them to our godless school system where we will teach them they are an accident of nature with no purpose and no God who cares and loves. And then you can sort out the shootings, bullying, foul mouths, teen pregnancy's, fights, hate, and general disrespect for all authority.
 Now, for the sake of argument, where is the proof of evolution? Where are the half ape people? Why did it stop? Where are the people from history who are mutated? How come everything actually works? Reproduction is pretty consistent. The sun doesn't move closer so we burn or farther so we freeze. My eyes cannot be reproduced by a computer. My brain cant be reproduced by a computer. Hmm.
 Fish evolved correctly. Humans did too. Moon still helps the tide. Its amazing that evolution worked so well! The seasons changing! WOW!
THE DEFINITION OF EVOLUTION:
a. The process of developing.
b. Gradual development.
So will it keep developing?
Why does it stop? 
Does it tell me about what happens after death?
Why does it let me live only 70 years?
Are you happy with this?
Shall I continue?
You tell me this evolved from this:












READ THIS:
Humans have become so technically evolved that they can now make a living, breathing person. A summit of scientists believed that because they now had the power to create life, God was no longer needed. So they all decided that someone should go and tell God this. One man volunteered to go. One day he climbed a mountain and called upon God. “God! We humans now have the ability to bring people from the dead, we can create our own life, we don’t need you anymore so you can leave us alone.” God listened to the scientist and nodded his head. “Okay, I’ll tell you what, if you can really create life, let’s have a competition, if you can create a better person than me, I’ll go, but we’ll have to do it the way I did it in the old days.” So the scientist agrees and begins to collect some dirt to make his person. God simply watches him and finally asks him what he’s doing. “I’m using the dirt to make a person.” God smiles, looks at the scientist and replies, “Go make your own dirt.

What do you call a dead athiest? All dressed up and no place to go.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
That one verse makes me content. God made the earth. He then made the birds and fish and every land animal. Then he made free will man. Gave him the option to love freely. And receive love. He immediately gave a purpose. Name animals and tend a garden.
Psalm 139:14 I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Isaiah 43:7 Bring all who claim me as their God, for I have made them for my glory. It was I who created them.'
Jeremiah 1:5 I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations
Psalm 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good.
Only a fool would say God did not make us. I was on twitter the other day and I was tweeting with 7 other people who called me names and said I was crazy for believing in God. Their main issue was they could not accept who God was and that He is uncreated. Easy to believe they evolved from monkeys but not that God is and always has been. I did not directly address them like this but I did tell them that it was folly to not believe in God.
God made you. He made you in His image. You have a purpose. First to love God. Second to love your neighbor as you love yourself. As I have said in my previous post, you cant have good without God. He created the world and all it contains for your enjoyment. The animals, oceans, mountains, birds, sunsets, sunrise, stars, galaxies all for you. 
He made it with perfection in mind. Order and balance. Love and care. And He said it was good.
What do you call a dead athiest? All dressed up and no place to go.


Lastly, people will say man wrote the Bible, not God. 2 Timothy 3:16 says All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness. There is no book or collection of books that in any way compares to the Bible. It is not of this world. Any law today? Starts with the Ten Commandments. Golden rule? Some guy named Jesus said it. Matthew 7:12.
 I fully believe, without a doubt, that the Bible is Gods infallible word. That it is perfect and full of order and meant to lead us, guide us and comfort us.

So to say the big bang made this perfect universe is like saying an dropping my glass will create a galaxy and to say we evolved from monkeys probably just offended every monkey on this planet!
You crazy people did not come from me!


Its what I do through Jesus,
Josiah