Celebrate Jesus Shorline

I went and visited Tony, a dear brother from work, who was working a booth at Celebrate Shoreline yesterday.

I lovingly handed out several dozen tracts.

Boy was it hot!

God bless...

You Can't Do That

Weekend before last, brother Joel and I went to the Lake Stevens Aqua Fest.   He had some cool "Good News / Word of Truth" tee shirts made for us.

We handed out gospel tracts, and got into one-to-one conversations with several groups of people. I was sooo encouraged that God gave us the appointments with young people to share the Gospel and talk about eternal matters.

Please pray the seed of the Word to germinate in the heart of Phoenix and Mason, Alex, Jack, Chandrice, and others.

At about noon, when both Joel and I were starting to feel sunburned, we decided it was time to leave. As we were on our way out of the festival, we were told by a policeman, that he had received complaints about us, and that we couldn't do what we were doing. Joel explained that not only was he a resident of Lake Stevens, and he was a tax-paying citizen, but we couldn't be prohibited from handing out Gospel tracts because that would be unconstitutional. The police officer said, "okay by me, just go make sure it's okay with the festival officials". We went and talked to a couple of people at the info booth, and showed them our tracts. They said let us call the "president".

We waited around for a while and decided to just leave my cell phone # and leave.

Later I got a text that read, "sorry Keith, but you can't hand out tracts, unless you purchase a booth."

God bless...

"I Believe in Science"

You probably heard Hillary Clinton say, "I believe in science", during her acceptance speech. Make no mistake, that was a jab in the eye of Christians.

I’ve had people say that to me too.   By saying that, I understand them to say, "I don't believe in God, because science disproves God".

Well, I believe in science too, but I have a justification for believing in science. I believe the scientific method is a valid way to gain knowledge. And I can justify that statement.   In other words, I can account for the REASON WHY science works.

I would ask you, "Why do you believe in science?", in other words, "How do you know, that the scientific method is valid?".   Here are the steps of the scientific method:

1. ask a question
2. research the context - in other words, has the question already been sufficiently answered
3. form a hypothesis
4. test the hypothesis
5. refine the hypothesis
6. retest and repeat
7. draw a conclusion (your results will either prove or disprove your hypothesis)

In short, the scientific method uses a concept called "induction", to gain knowledge.   By way of explanation, "Induction" is looking backward, to make a prediction about the future.   But I would ask you, how do you know that the past has anything to do with the future?   I can account for "induction", because I know the One who "holds all things together by the word of His power".   That is God Himself.   But without God, you can make no such claim.

When you say, “I can predict the future, because it's always been that way in the past”, you’ve just committed a logical mistake.   That’s a logical fallacy called, “begging the question.”   You’re saying, “the future is like the past, because it’s always been that way in the past.”

God bless...