As many of us know, yesterday, Febrauary 14, was viewed as the celebration of love and romance – the long-awaited Valentine’s day. Many couples are showing their love for one another through roses, candy, cards, and other such gifts. The Greeks referred to this type of love as “eros,” meaning romantic or sexual love. With everyone’s minds on the subject of love, what better time than to take a look at the ultimate love shown by our Heavenly Father.
In John 3:16, we read how that “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,…
Filed under: Devotional, Michael Carter on February 15th, 2009 | No Comments »
Today would have been Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday if he were still alive. Many of us are aware of him as the author of the book Origin of Species. However, how many of us are familiar with Sir Francis Galton (seen in the picture to the right), the father of the ideology known as eugenics? He was Darwin’s cousin who formulated this idea from Darwin’s influence. Whereas Darwin believed in the survival of the fittest in the natural realm, Galton attempted to apply this in an artificial sense in speeding up the process by only allowing the…
Filed under: Devotional, Michael Carter on February 12th, 2009 | No Comments »
This week, my wife Ruth had to go and make some copies of the key to the church building. She came back with an assortment of different designs – one had a cat, one a panda, and one a dolphin. Although each one had its own decor, each one of the keys was made after the pattern of the original one that Ruth had taken to the locksmith.
In Christianity, we have a pattern that God has set before us to be saved and be faithful to Him. We are to hear the word and believe it (Romans…
Filed under: Devotional, Michael Carter on February 7th, 2009 | No Comments »
No one would deny that we live in a world full of temptations. We are bombarded daily by images of worldly pursuits that we are told would be pleasurable if we engage in them. How should we as Christians deal with these temptations and overcome them? Let’s look at Jesus’ example in Matthew 4.
In Matthew 3:13-17, we read of how Jesus came to John the Baptizer in…
Filed under: Devotional, Michael Carter on February 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
My daughter Kayla and I have been attending the quilting meetings here at the building, and Kayla has been diligently working on her log cabin quilt. She has been receiving a lot of wonderful guidance from some of the ladies involved in the group, and she has becoming more and more skillful with her sewing machine.
In addition to the above-mentioned factors, one specific detail that has helped Kayla in her quiltmaking is an accurate pattern. Sometimes, we are like a pattern to other people. Let’s consider what Paul says to Titus in…
Filed under: Devotional, Michael Carter on February 1st, 2009 | No Comments »
