By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
Did the events of 2021 help us to see with greater clarity the “beginning of the end”? Said another way, will 2022 be the beginning, not of the end, but of life eternal?
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On the Lighter Side, January 2022, #1
Animal Illusion
FaithSearch has a professional illusionist on staff, but even Adrian Van Vactor could be challenged by trying to figure out how a beetle can be eaten by a frog and later be seen very much alive.
[Read more…]On the Lighter Side, January 2022, #2
Happy Birthday
Richard Scott William Hutchinson was given a 0% chance of survival when he was born, weighing less than a pound, at twenty-one weeks gestation.
[Read more…]On the Lighter Side, January 2022, #3
Sprint till I Die?
It may not impress you to hear that someone “sprinted” the 100-meter dash in 1 minute, 2.95 seconds – and it was a new record. Unimpressed, that is, until you are told she is 105 years old!
[Read more…]In the News, January 2022
ASL Sign Language Bible Complete
It took thirty-nine years and fifty-three translators, but a version of the Bible entirely on video can now be “read” by the Deaf community. It is signed in their own language: the American Sign Language version.
[Read more…]Give Up on the World?
By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
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A Christian friend recently said to me, “I am praying like never before that Jesus will return to end it all.” He had given up on the world. Is that what Jesus said His followers should do?
I’m hesitant to criticize because I have had similar thoughts. Many Christians have. There is a sense in which those thoughts are right, as C.S. Lewis wrote, “A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do” (Mere Christianity, Macmillan, 1960, p. 118).
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