The Faithful Christian a blog of The Lighthouse Ministries

Everyone knows how anti-evolution I am. I don't believe in it. It's not science. And I don't have enough faith to believe in millions or billions of years, the Big Bang, or that life is just the result of random chance. That requires a lot more faith than I have.   Here's something interesting. The dating processes that are used are highly unreliable. For instance...radiometric dating isn't even reliable for dating rocks with a known age. They used radiometric dating to test rocks that were formed from the eruption of Mt St. Helens. They knew for a fact that the rocks were less than 30 years old, but they were dated to 350,000 years. Radiometric dating has been proven unreliable time after time.   Carbon 14 dating, also unreliable. Carbon 14 has a half life of 5730 years, so it would be impossible to find carbon 14 in fossils that are supposedly millions of years old, yet dinosaur fossils contain plenty of measurable amounts of Carbon 14. Diamonds also contain Carbo...

In   Together in Christ , Erskine Wright shares this story: “Fiorello LaGuardia was mayor of New York City during the Depression, and he was quite a character. He would ride the city fire trucks, take entire orphanages to baseball games and whenever the city newspapers went on strike, he would get on the radio and read the Sunday “funnies” to the children. At any rate, one bitter cold winter’s night in 1935, Mayor LaGuardia turned up in a night court that served the poorest ward in the city, dismissed the judge for the evening and took over the bench himself. After he heard a few cases, a tattered old woman was brought before him, accused of stealing a loaf of bread. She told LaGuardia that her daughter’s husband had deserted her, her daughter was sick and her grandchildren were starving. But the shopkeeper, from whom the bread was stolen, insisted on pressing charges. “My store is in a very bad neighborhood, your honor,” he said. “She’s got to be punished in order to teach other p...

 I’ve been studying the short book of Jude today.  It’s only 25 verses but it is overflowing with so much truth and so much power it’s just amazing.  I’ve already written about 18 pages of notes and I’m still on verse 1. See when I study the Bible I don’t just read it, I pray, I take notes, I meditate, and I use a Greek lexicon because when you go back to the original Greek you understand much better what the writer was trying to say and that excites me to no ends.  Sometimes what I discover makes my hair stand on end. I know I’ve said this before but Greek is the most precise language on the planet.  It’s not stupid and confusing like English.  In English the meaning of a word depends on the context of the sentence, but in Greek, the context depends on the word. For instance, Greek has 8 different words for love and the context of the statement depends on which word is used.  In English we only have 1 word for love…love and we throw it around all Will...

Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. Luke 9:23 Many people interpret “cross” as some burden they must carry in their lives: a strained relationship, a thankless job, a physical illness. With self-pitying pride, they say, “That’s my cross I have to carry.” Such an interpretation is not what Jesus meant when He said, “Take up your cross and follow Me.”  When Jesus carried His cross up Golgotha to be crucified, no one was thinking of the cross as symbolic of a burden to carry. To a person in the first-century, the cross meant one thing and one thing only: death by the most painful and humiliating means human beings could develop.  Two thousand years later, Christians view the cross as a cherished symbol of atonement, forgiveness, grace, and love. But in Jesus’ day, the cross represented nothing but torturous death. Because the Romans forced convicted criminals to carry their own crosses to ...

The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.  Proverbs 18:21 If you ever sit down and read a medical textbook and I do sometimes because I’m cursed with an overwhelming curiosity to understand how and why things work. But, if you ever read through the section describing the body’s organs you will notice that one vital organ is missing, the tongue and yes the tongue is an organ. These books remember the brain and the heart and even the appendix, which is important, I just don’t remember why, but if it weren’t important then God wouldn’t have created it. You can look through these books all you want and you will never find anything about the tongue, the most obvious vital organ of all. The tongue wields the power of life and death. That’s right, the tongue is the most powerful organ in the human body. It has the power to encourage and tear down, to build up and to destroy, to bless and to curse, without question, the human tongue is a powerful...

I   have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10 As Christians we are recipients of Divine life that is both eternal and abundant. Isn’t it strange therefore as to how often we speak about death in our vocabulary? For instance, when our job or boss is giving us a tough time, we may say, ‘my job is killing me’ or ’my boss is killing me’. When our feet are tired, we say, ’my feet are killing me’. If we are desperate to share a story with someone, we may say, ‘My, I was dying to tell you this’ or ’I was dying to meet you’! When someone says something that is right to the point, we say, ’you are dead right’. On the contrary, when someone says something inaccurate, we say, ’you are dead wrong’. If someone is a constant failure, we may call him ’a dead loss’!! When we say or do something that is embarrassing, we say, ’I could have died then and there’, or when someone shares a story that is difficult to believe, we ask, ’are you dead sure’? Man...