October 2015

It is nearly midnight and I should be asleep.  But my mind is not at rest because my heart is burdened. Jesus made a significant request to His Father in the garden the night He was betrayed. "My prayer is not for them alone.  I pray also for those who believe in me through their message, that they may be one, Father, Just as you are in me and I am in you.  May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me."

North Rim of Grand Canyon Discerning the difference between what is actually fact and what is interpretation of fact is key to processing the deluge of information flooding our senses every day. I was standing at the rim of Grand Canyon with a group of our guests discussing the relationship between the sedimentary layers in Grand Canyon and the Genesis flood.  As often happens, a gentleman standing nearby was listening to our conversation.  When there was a break in the conversation, he asked a good question. "How can you say that these

4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind