Something We Take for Granted

This picture I took takes my breathe away every time. I know people have visited the moon and gone to outerspace...but that is not what takes my breathe away. Recently in bible study we watched the video, "Case for a Creator" I think is what it was called and it made so many great points. All of this led to me thinking, "do we take for granted the perfection of how God created the Earth and the Universe??"

With the moon, and essentially the placement of the earth in our solar system just amazes me. The way the moon is placed in the Earth's gravitational pull is perfect. Just millimeters closer and the moon would collide with the Earth. Just millimeters farther and the Earth's gravitational pull would not be strong enough to keep ahold of it. Same with the gravitational pull of the moon. It was placed so precisely that we have ocean tides. Its phases are essential to the way our calendar works...why would we base our calendars on it if it wasn't precise? As soon as I hear these facts I think, shoot how could someone not see there is at least one ultimate creator? Then, there is the placement of the Earth in proximity to our Sun. Just a little bit closer and we would be a hot planet like Mar or Venus and not be able to retain life. Just a little bitter farther away and our planet would freeze. The placement of our planet in the solar system is just the beginning to why the Earth is the only planet with life. Just with the science you can prove there is a creator

God as the Creator...
Just how God created the heavens and the earth. How He separated the water from the dry land. He created, molded and placed the animals of the land, sea and sky. How He brought the dirt together to mold and shape a human being. Do we take for granted all of these things? I hope not...I hope we take advantage and show others through us (His creation also) and through the world around us there is a God.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1

Simple Worship

When is the last time you simply worshiped? Whether it be singing, praying or just reverend silence...What a blessing it is to be able to simply worship. We as American's take advantage of that blessing constantly. In other countries people have to hide their worship. Here we can worship in everything we do. Now sometimes how we worship may come off kind of weird to the people of the world but it still is just simple worship. I know in China people have to hide their praise with code words and basically in silence. Here, we can shout to the rooftops and standout in a radical way! Just simply WORSHIP! The sad thing is we never do it and if we do we don't do it enough. We don't take full advantage of our freedom, our liberty, our rights. We were given the right to freedom of religion and we have that.

Liberty

This past weekend Hampton Heights Baptist Church had an amazing celebration and ultimately worship. We spent the whole day Saturday giving the community a block party.