According to National Geographic, paleontologists have been dusting off a lot of fossils. They have counted the dinosaur discoveries by country.
[Read more…]Dinosaurs Around the World
Archives for February 2023
2023 February-March: St. Petersburg, Bryansk, Moscow, Kolomna, Rostov, Nizhniy Novgorod
This trip is not going to be much longer than usual – by two days only. However, I am expecting great things to happen during my time in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Bryansk, Rostov Velikiy, Kolomna, and Nizhniy Novgorod. First of all, I will have the rare opportunity to pay a second visit to some of the same places I just taught in a couple of month ago.
This will give me a chance to see the progress my audiences will have made on their academic and/or spiritual journey. It is usually from local ministry partners that I learn the effect my teaching makes on the class or a study group. This time, I deliberately chose pretty much the same route I traveled last December in order to do the follow-up myself.
[Read more…]What’s In A Name? (Part 1)
By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
What is the biblical bridge between the two great celebrations of the Christian faith – Christmas and Easter? It is two names!
Two thousand years ago, God sent the angel Gabriel to earth to deliver a message with two names: “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a Son, and they will call Him Emmanuel…”; “And she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus” (Matthew 1:21, 23). Why two names? What is their significance?
Eight out of ten people in the world believe in god or a higher power. Why? Because God made certain that everyone in the world could know THAT He exists by leaving His fingerprints of Intelligent Design in nature. The apostle Paul makes that explicit: “…what may be known of God is plain to them… for since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen… so that they are without excuse” (Romans 1:18-20).
But WHO is it? The Bible says, “No one has ever seen God…” (John 1:18).
[Read more…]In the News, January 2023, #1
Equal Treatment for Religious Schools
A Supreme Court majority in June [2022], rejected an attempt by Maine to bar parents from using state tuition assistance to pay for their children to attend religious schools where no public school is available.*
(Public domain images.)
In the News, January 2023 #2
Quotable!
Deon Joseph, a law enforcement consultant, commented on the Supreme Court’s Kennedy v. Bremerton School District decision. “The court affirmed that if you can use God’s name in vain… and verbally disrespect and dismiss His existence in public without hindrance, then others should be able to praise Him, thank Him, and talk to Him in public,” he said.
Source: World Magazine, July 16, 2022, page 18.
