A New Creature. . . an Apostolic Pentecostal blog

2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. If there is one thing that we as Christians fear, I believe that in the deep recesses of our thoughts, more than anything other, we may at times fear science.  Christianity has taken stands, and retreated in the face of science numerous times in the past thousand years. Galileo was put to death by the Church for threatening the doctrine of the day.  Men researching bacteria, other microorganisms, and the causes of disease were likewise persecuted by the church.  Men looking at comets and other signs in the sky were seen as threatening Church doctrine and were even put to death for their research. Where the church has drawn lines in the sand in its interpretation of physical phenomenon, it has invariably ended up retreating in the face of science.  The labeling of scientific theory as heresy, does not prevent scientific research from continuing and g...

A few minutes ago, I finished watching this utterly fascinating video about a theory on how the earth’s weather is effected by the activity of the sun, and by the cosmic rays from our Milky Way galaxy. The video is almost 53 minutes long, but it is very well worth watching.  It outlines a most beautiful and elegant theory of a Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark .   He shows a very strong correlation in the fossil record between periods of quiet sun/high cosmic ray bombardment of the earth and cooler weather and periods of active sun/low cosmic rays hitting the earth and warm climate.  As the earth makes one rotation around the Milky Way galaxy every 250 million years, we travel in and out of the spiral arms of the galaxy.  Inside the arms, we are in an areas of much greater density of stars.  This greater density of stars around us, increases the intensity of cosmic ray bombardment hitting the earth, resulting in a cooler climate.  Between the arms, the...

Over the 6 years since its release (2006), I have very much enjoyed the movie, “Facing the Giants.”  If you have not seen it, here is a link to the movie’s website: http://www.facingthegiants.com/ I highly highly recommend this movie. I cannot begin to remember the number of times that I’ve watched this movie. It is so inspiring.  It is a favorite of my grandkids. . . It is a favorite of their grandpa (and grandma). . . It is a wonderful wonderfully uplifting and faith building movie. At one point the main character in the movie, a football coach, says something to the effect that: God’s Word says Do not fear 365 times. That quote has stuck in my mind in the years since I first saw this movie . I thought that very powerfully symbolic and a few days ago, I repeated that statement to a co-worker, but as the words left my lips, I was convicted. In the course of my life, I have found that it is dangerous to repeat things that I hear, without checking them out for myself, so...