WORMS

I am catching up on my A to Z Challenge. I fell behind due to an accumulation of circumstances that occur in life.

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Worms - any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender, soft bodies and no limbs.

As I walked this morning, there were lots of little squirming worms about on the sidewalk. I couldn’t help thinking about them. They were seeking refuge from the rain. I thought about their purpose, burrowing through the soil to aerate and fertilize.  Amazing little creatures aren’t they?!

Could they have evolved from nothing? I mean, when I think about the importance of the worm and its purpose, I think about the other things in the world. I think of how it all fits together and works together. Could it have just come about randomly? No, I don’t think so. It takes too much faith to look at a world that is clearly designed and believe it just happened. I mean, consider the worm.

Consider the worms:

Wonderful Worms

Wonder Worms 

Worm Evolution in Pollution? 

God bless, Maria

A to Z Challenge: N is for Noah

A to Z Challenge:  N is for NOAH showing at Sight and Sound Theater 

About 17 1/2 years ago we went to our first production at the Sight and Sound Theater in Lancaster, PA, an amazing musical production of Noah.  My oldest daughter was 2 1/2 years old; so she doesn’t remember much of that production, but I do remember that it was quite spectacular.  

Since that time, the Sight and Sound Theater has produced a number of amazing Biblical performances. We have seen a few; last fall we attended a showing of Jonah which was also phenomenal.  These folks know how to move you back in time, stir your emotions, and give you an experience you will not soon forget.  The sets are incredible; the music and the singers keep the audience enthralled, and the story is timeless. 

So when I heard NOAH was back after all these years, I had to get tickets.  The show runs from March to November 2013.  I bought tickets last November for the show on March 29th.  Many of the dates are already sold out because it will only be running for the one season.  The show did not disappoint.  

If you are unfamiliar with the story of NOAH in the Bible, you can read about it in Genesis chapters 6 through 8.  The story is about God saving Noah and his family and anyone who would join them from coming judgment on the world for sin and rebellion.  Noah has loved God and appreciated God’s blessings as he sought to be faithful in his relationship with God.  God directs Noah to do something that has never been done before in an area that seems to make no sense at the time.  God directs Noah to build an Ark.  This large boat would then be used to transport 2 of every kind of animal on the earth along with Noah and his family in order that they would survive a coming worldwide flood.  Sounds incredible even to Noah, but he is faithful as he has always been to believe God, and God is faithful to His promises.

During the show you are transported into the ark with dozens of live and animatronic animals.  You get a glimpse of what life might have been like cooped up in a limited space with your family and smelly animals for a lengthy period.  The range of emotions that they would have encountered, extreme sorrow at the loss of mankind, great appreciation for being saved, frustration, exhaustion, impatience, well you get the idea.  It is all in there.

I would encourage anyone who wants to see a performance of Biblical proportions to consider checking out the Sight and Sound Theater’s show list.  People travel from all over the country to see one of these productions.  They have a second theater in Branson, Missouri which is now showing Joseph.

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A to Z Challenge: I is for ICR

A to Z Challenge:  I is for ICR

Institute for Creation Research (ICR) has oodles of science resources accessible on its website.  In addition to finding out more about who they are and what they do, the website gives you access to articles and updates related to creation science, the latest scientific discoveries, events offering fabulous teaching, and their excellent free devotional, Days of Praise, which I referred to on Day D.

ICR is one of the most respected and well-known Creation Science organizations in the USA and in the world.  Dr. Henry Morris founded ICR in 1970, and since then it has been a herald for the cause of honoring Scriptural truth from the very first word.  Their focus is on research, education, and communication of all things related to understanding our Creator and His creation.  

They recently started offering a free app to allow you to access information quickly right from your smart phone or other mobile devices which you can download from the website.  This is only one of the many free resources they offer.  They have a number of books and media materials that you can purchase on the website as well for the very young to the very old. 

Graduate school programs with their School of Biblical Apologetics are offered at a very affordable price.   Educational events and lectures with ICR scientists and speakers take place across the country and around the world to inform people that science and the Bible, Christianity in particular, are not in opposition to one another.  It is not an either or deal, but the two fit together very well.  ICR is on a mission to equip Christians to be able to effectively defend their faith as we are called to do in 1 Peter 3: 15-18 (NASB).  

“but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence; and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.”  1 Peter 3:15-18

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