What happens when you believe Jesus Christ? In the world, seeing is believing. But, in Christ Jesus, believing is seeing. The record of His life is right there for us in the Scriptures. The better we know them and believe them, the more clearly we can see the Creator who is revealed by His Son.

By reading and meditating on the Scriptures we can begin to understand how off base man’s ideas are. The personalities and things we tend to believe quickly become vain and foolish when compared to the life and peace that comes from a healthy knowledge and confidence in the Bible and its teaching. Read IITimothy chapter 3. and as you do ask Jesus to help your understanding. He wants to help us if we will only ask.

Wayne Hollyoak

Today, we are living in a sort of Darwinian knee-jerk society. The older generation is being accused of holding out on the younger generation about the news about all the “great enlightenment” regarding our “origins” and as the [popular singer said, “no more religion”. Many are so convinced that our great, great……. grandparents were hairy tree-dwellers of some sort. Go Figure!

Now everything that our parents represent is tainted somehow and needs to be replaced with something “new”. The popular political platform is, “it’s time for change”. It reminds me of Yogi Berra’s quip, “You can use cash, which is just as good as money!” Like what kind of change are you talking about? Handguns for all grade school teachers? Eliminating heterosexuality? How far with this go? Go Figure!

Some of the states are beginning to see a backlash to all this social darwinism as people are starting to see through its real motives. Abortion really reveals the dark side of the darwinian force. Lust-driven sexual behavior where the standard is, “if it feels good, do it- we’re all animals anyway” has come at a dire cost. Children are becoming more and more disposable. Doctors are asked to be executioners and healthcare workers get fired for speaking out. Go Figure!

Our heros have become entertainers, ball players, musicians and scientists. Go Figure!

It wasn’t that long ago that young people saw their parents, teachers and pastors as heros and wanted to be like them.  Yup, things have changed…

Go Figure!

People in the world of science spend a lot of time analyzing stuff and trying to figure things out. The whole concept of  scientific inquiry depends of a physical world operating under the current set of conditions. There are a wide range of assumptions that this all depends on. It looks at how things operate in the present and assume that nothing has or will change, or even can! Things like the speed of light and the conservation of energy are perceived to be reliable assumptions. But, we have no way to prevent  them from altering at any given moment.

We take many such things for granted since we don’t see them changing. But, are they can they, do they? All we can tell is what we perceive and others have observed and recorded. The reality is very different. The physical laws have a stability that is maintained deliberately and they reflect the power, majesty and grace of their Creator. But, we must always remember that at any moment these properties “nature” can be altered or suspended. Indeed, when we die they do and we will need a new body in order to stand before our Maker. Such an event would not be possible in this body of flesh and blood.

The Bible is the only reliable source of information about the Creator and His creation. Yes, it was written down by men and passed down by men. But, just as the Great Engineer of all thing has sustained the universe for so many years, so has the Lord Jesus provided us with the Bible as a view of the universe and mankind through the eyes of its author.

Many years ago I worked on an a truck assembly line. Soon after I became a believer, I started bringing a New Testament with me into the paint booth where I sprayed rustproofing on the insides of doors and body panels. I would get a little ahead of the conveyor sometimes and take a moment to read a few verses. One day I was really struggling with getting an understanding of my place in God’s world and I asked Him to help me and at that moment the assembly line halted! I thought, Hmm! It occasionally would pause for a moment or 2 for various reasons. So, I stepped over and opened the New Testament that was covered with grey rustproof. It opened to Psalm 39 (this New Testament included Psalms and Proverbs):
Ps 39 

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.” 

I finished, layed down the book and the assembly line started back up. I had an exact and detailed answer for my question and it had me in tears as the reality of Christ’s presence in the paint booth sunk into my heart. This One that died for me and death couldn’t hold him, has the final say on all things in this universe and the one to come had heard me and answered me directly! That’s the reality that comes with being one of His disciples. “He works all things for good, for those that trust Him and are the called according to His purpose.”

I hope you believe on the Lord Jesus! If not, why not start…

Wayne Hollyoak

Who Cares More About You than Your Creator?

How did a bungling pursuit like “science” ever gain so much respectibility? The same outfit that pushes evolutionism on us and our children has somehow become the final word on everything from chewing gum to the origin of the universe and how many of such may exist! They set about to determine the details of everything using mathematical formulae and statistical permutations and such. They focus intently on the whats and wheres, but could care less about the hows(if it doesn’t fit into their evolutionary paradigm) and whys. And if it’s a question about the whos, it’s always limited to themselves and they couldn’t care less about what anyone else thinks outside of their elite.

According to science we are told in effect, “Life has no meaning other than what we place on it.” How did we get here? Is there a significance to human existence, or any real reason to live? Perhaps a fifth of the human population has been wiped out by our social Darwinian policy of “abortion on demand” with China’s “one child policy” and “Roe V Wade” endorcing and even enforcing the wholesale slaughter of human children whithin what should be the safety and security of their mother’s womb! This is the new “scientific age” ethic. We sit down and turn on the TV and tell the “kids” to go out and play on the freeway. Poverty is defined as anyone that doesn’t live like a king.

Ever visit a Video Game Store?

Deuteronomy is a book in the Bible that tells of the duplicity of the nation of Israel. Of how they lived in a cycle of sinful godlessness and disaster followed by sorrow, faith, repentence and the determination to please their Creator for a few generations and then they would forget all the grace, and goodness of the Creator. Once again they would find themselves acting as though the Creator didn’t exist, so His meaning for their existence was forgotten and evil would take over and godly virtue despised.

So, today we watch shows on TV with names like, “Criminal Minds”, “Crime Scene Investigation” and “Sex in the City” and idly stand by as our children play all sorts of violent human killing simulation games and fear to discourage some of their desire to own and use firearms.

We are seeing the fallout from our push towards godlessness, with science acting as the new pontificate if you will. Tragedy looms ahead for America, China and the rest of the world because we are livinig in ignorance of our Creator and Sustainer. We need to tear down the walls that we are putting up to silence the Creator’s voice and focus on appreciating Him, recieving His forgiveness through Christ Jesus and let His Spirit fill and guide us. Not some fictional “Historical Jesus” imagined by so called, “modern scholars”, but the Jesus that is faithfully taught by his Apostles in the Bible.

Wayne Hollyoak