A parachute landed in the Utah desert last September, carrying the first-ever U.S. asteroid sample (250 grams). NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe was launched in 2016, and collected a sample from the near-earth asteroid Bennu. Analysis will be by the NASA team at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, as well as by 200 mission members from thirty-five countries.
[Read more…]Archives for 2024
Happenings: February 2024
This FREE Happ-O-getics newsletter of happenings and apologetic evidence is sent six times per year to everyone on our FaithSearch mail list with an E-mail address on record. Share it with friends and encourage them to sign up online for their own copy.
FaithSearch Highlights
- Oleg will be on another ministry trip to Russia the first three weeks of May – two weeks in Moscow and one week in Armenia. Follow his updates online.
- Vernee and Don arrived in Surprise, Arizona, at the beginning of November. Don immediately began teaching a weekly class on “discerning heresy”; substitute taught Sundays in their church; and participated in a weekly men’s Bible study. He also began teaching a new home study called “What’s Next: Will We Live Again?” – challenging seniors to have assurance of life after death through faith in Jesus.
- Rick, Adrian, and Don continue developing courses and posting Don’s teaching videos on the Bible Learning Center. Check it out!
- FaithSearch is MOVING this spring! The building we are in now is being replaced, so we are moving to another office in an adjacent building – 6800 France Avenue S.
When “Christians” Get It Wrong: How You Can Know (Part 1)
By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
Christianity is the largest religion in the world. There are groups claiming to be of the Christian faith, yet whose teaching differs from the mainstream. Some view the differences and say, “Do not judge.” Others wonder if the deviation is important enough to dispute or even break unity. How can we know?
[Read more…]IN THE NEWS, FEBRUARY 2024
Fog?
No, it’s smoke! That was often the exchange between my wife, Vernee, and I, during this past summer in South Dakota. Every time the wind came out of the north it brought the smoke resulting from the Canadian wildfire devastation. The 2023 fire season, which started early and ended late, burned an estimated 71,000 square miles of land, an area equivalent to the entire state of North Dakota. (On average, some 9,600 square miles burns each year. That was an over 730% increase for 2023.)
[Read more…]Did You Know, February 2024
Advice Well Taken
The apostle Paul was on his way to Jerusalem at the end of his third missionary tour when he stopped by to give a farewell to the leadership at Ephesus. He said to them,
[Read more…]I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock, and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. Therefore be on the alert…
(Acts 20:29-31)
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