Truth Inspires

A lot of people love to call Christians illiterate, uneducated, ignorant, and mentally challenged. They say we cannot think for ourselves so we let others think for us. They say since living in today's twenty-first century is complex that we resort to the Bible as a guide and blindly follow the teachings of Christ, who Himself, was filled with a Messiah complex and was a lunatic. The accusations go on-and-on and never seem to end. Depending on who a person reads, blindly thrown accusations are hurled without real thought and are usually based upon little fact and are themselves the regurgitated arguments of the atheists, evolutionists, liberal theologians, agnostics, and active homosexuals who will not accept the plain words of Scripture. I rarely read a unique criticism. Most of the accusations and snarling that I have read have been adequately crushed but the ones who continue to hurl them are either unaware of this or despise their defeat. They themselves boost their ego by ...

Heron Pond in Winter I have been out of commission for a couple of weeks concerning this blog. My family and I went on a vacation to Southern Illinois where we experienced an adventure in the Lord that will be forever memorable. There are times like these that God gives us wherein reflections can teach us a lot about His forever presence and guidance. On Tuesday the 25th of September, we started a 6 mile hike toward a place called Heron Pond in the Shawnee National Forest. It is in this place that is normally swamp-like where cypress trees have grown in very large proportions. A floating dock allows visitors to walk throughout the pond and admire the beauty of God’s handiwork. However, the summer drought of 2012 had taken its toll on the area causing the dock to rest upon the bottom of the swamp at angles rather than flat. Nonetheless it was a beautiful sight. But the pond was only an afterthought of what happened on the way there... After about 5 miles we were sto...