It's that time of year at the Bowman household. Church, Eat, Baseball, Sleep (and not near enough of that).
God has been richly blessing the church and so that being said since I have been back from Trinidad it has been pretty non-stop at the church and on the baseball field.
Caleb and Reagan will be playing their first game on Monday, April 28th at the same time thankfully at the same complex and the fields are right next to each other. Natalie will have to sit in between and cheer them both on. As for me well, I am assistant coach on both teams so I'm going to have fun trying to figure out how to be on both fields at the same time.
Well that being said, HAPPY EARTH DAY!
In my honest opinion we are in the church just simply letting this issue slide by because we don't think it effects us or is relevant to our church. HELLO!!! I would say 75% of your students that are in school have either already been shown "An Inconvenient Truth" in their Public School and they are bombarded with the medias adoption of Global Warming. So this Sunday I will be preaching on the topic of "Which Voice will you Listen Too"
Although you probably haven't seen this too many places...unless you look for it there are many Scientist who believe that Global Warming doesn't exist or if it does exist it is not being cause by man. Here is a web link to a Senate Report listing over 400 Prominent Scientist who believe this. DID you catch that SCIENTIST not former politicians or environmentalist who are not only getting rich off of Global Warming (Al Gore gets $20,000 for speaking engagements now) For the record...I'm not paid anywhere near that for my travels (i know you are all shocked to find that out!!!) Sorry for that ramble, here is the link:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfmFuseAction=Minority.SenateReport
Read through this when you have some time...it is quite extensive!
Here is something else that is very interesting that I came across when studying for Sunday. Did you know that The official thermometers at the U.S. National Climate Data Center show a slight global cooling trend over the last seven years, from 1998 to 2005.
California meteorologist Anthony Watts says the amount of cooling ranges from 65-hundredths of a degree Centigrade to 75-hundreds of a degree.
That is said to be a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years. It is reportedly the single fastest temperature change ever recorded — up or down.
My favorite which absolutely nailed the issue in my opinion was Australian Engineer Ray Evans who states, “The global-warming doomsayers, are anti-development. Moreover, they stem from an environmentalism that has taken the place of Christianity, particularly in Europe. "To put it in its bluntest terms, when you don't believe in God you don't believe in nothing. You believe in whatever is the fashion of the day, and environmentalism has scooped the pool."
If you stop and think about what Al Gore in “An Inconvenient Truth” is preaching to us and what the environmentalist movement is stating it is a simple one…we have sinned
against the earth and we should repent change our ways and seek salvation (environmentalism is the salvation)
That leads me to my text for this Sunday which the key verse is Jeremiah 22:29 which reads.
29 O earth, earth, earth,
Hear the word of the Lord!
WE NEED TO WAKE UP CHRISTIANS!
Perilous times are upon us…not cause by CO2 emissions, not cause by a failing economy, not caused by and energy crisis…rather the cause of it is sin.
I wrote recently in an article published in Insideout Magazine that
1. Some are distracted by self and building their own kingdom.
2. Some become distracted by things that are immoral.
3. Others, however are distracted by the fear and threat of a global calamity.
What voice are you listening to?
Jeremiah's call was a call of warning!
Will the call be heeded?
- The call states that the world is in a state of danger this call is one that is very pointed and passionate. No this isn’t a call for fear of environmental disaster it is a call for the souls of man to be saved and if the call isn’t heard the something is going to transpire. Punishment from God is coming.
- Jeremiah is trying to wake up a world that is asleep and shake them to understand that calamity is coming…
"O earth"; and because that sleep is profound, the call is redoubled, "O earth, earth"; and because the world sleeps on, wrapped in a slumber deep as death, a third time peals the call, each louder than before.
Too many of us think that if we are asleep we are not responsible!
The story of the 10 virgins in the New Testament tells us that they all slept and when the cry went forth the 5 unwise virgins did not have enough oil in their lamps and they couldn't use for an excuse, "Well I was asleep"
What voice will you listen to? Which Salvation will you seek?
The voice of the Lord or the voice of Enemy?
Will you seek salvation in Christ or will you seek to find your salvation elsewhere?
We are spiritual beings and you will have a savior...the question that you must answer is does you savior have the power to actually save?
I know that mine does...He conquered death, hell and the grave and lives today!
What voice will you listen to?
Eve listened to the voice of the devil
Esau listened to the voice of self
Samson listened to the voice of someone else (Delilah)
David, however, although he made many mistakes yet he listened to the right voice the voice of the prophet Nathan & more importantly the voice of God!
EARTH EARTH EARTH...Listen to the voice of the Lord!
My friend we all want clean water, clean air and want to leave the world in a better way than we found it. However, don't get distracted listening to the wrong voice!
