monthly newsletter pardise pointe ministries volume 2
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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER PARDISE POINTE MINISTRIES
AUGUST 2020 – VOLUME 2
Psalm 119:1, “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord!”
Walking Together
The world walking record for
miles covered in 24 hours by a
single individual is 121 miles.
In the spiritual realm, it is not
how fast or how far we can walk,
but how Christ like we can walk.
Walking together is God’s desire
for His children. How can we
walk together?
Amos 3:3, “Can two walk
together, unless they are agreed?
In answering Amos’ question, let
us consider, the implications of
walking together.
In the N.T. the word used most
often to characterize the
Christian’s activity is “walk”.
Not a short hike or a casual stroll
but a lifetime of commitment to
maintaining fellowship by
walking with the Father and His
family. That involves at least two
implications:
Walking together implies union.
When a union is formed there is
a common bond. This principle is
seen in marriage. There is a
uniting in the bonds of holy
matrimony. So it is in the family
of God, we are united to the
person of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ and His cause is our
cause.
Two things are apparent here.
One is, obviously, that there is
the action of walking and the
other is that this is not a solitary
act.
PRAYER REQUESTS
Scriptural focus
Those fighting depression
Those needing a healing touch
Those in need financially
The many that need to receive Christ
Those who are working through this pandemic for our safety
Those who are tirelessly and selfishly working to bring the Good News to the world.
Walking together implies unity.
Unity is more than union.
Union is the framework that
brings us together. Unity is the
function within that
framework.
Union is not only getting
together. Unity is getting along
together.
If you were to tie two cats
together by their tails and hang
them across a fence, you will
have union but by no stretch of
the imagination will you have
unity! Do not attempt to do
this, by the way!!
Ephesians 4:1-3, “I, therefore,
the prisoner of the Lord,
beseech you to walk worthy of
the calling with which you were
called, 2 with all lowliness and
gentleness, with longsuffering,
bearing with one another in
love, 3 endeavoring to keep the
unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace.”
No human can make people
stay in step with one another.
They may get them to co-
operate for a certain amount of
time, but they cannot make
them co-operate forever.
Only the Holy Spirit who
brought us together, can keep
us together as we submit to
Him.
One who walks with God
knows God’s revealed will in
His Word and acts on it in such
a way that, he keeps in step
with both God and his fellow
pilgrims on the highway to
heaven.
Perhaps the best known Psalm
regarding walking is the 4th
verse the 23rd Psalm.
Psalms 23:4, “Yea, though I
walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no
evil; For You are with me; Your
rod and Your staff, they comfort
me.”
I may be in the valley of the
shadow of death, but I am not
going to stay here. I am here in it
at the moment, but I am just
passing through. If I keep on
walking, then eventually I will
get to the other side.
I don’t understand what You are
doing God, and I don’t know
where You are taking me, but I
am going to keep walking in
Your steps. I am going to stay in
the way that You have shown
me.
As the song writer wrote:
“I am weak but thou art strong,
Jesus keep me from all wrong,
I’ll be satisfied as long, As I
walk, let me walk close to thee.”
Sometimes we walk through the
fire, sometimes we walk through
floods, sometimes through the
valley of the shadow of death,
sometimes through the desert,
sometimes through green and
pleasant places, sometimes
beside the still waters, but no
matter where, the vital point is
that we are going to keep
walking.
If we keep walking, we will
never be alone. He will always
be with us.
If we will just continue to walk
with God, regardless of the trial
we are facing then He will
empower us to be able to
continue and He will be with us
through the trial.
It is not whether I am a spiritual
giant, or whether I can make it
through life without ever making a
mistake.
What matters is that I just keep
walking. It is not how many times I
fall down, it is whether I get back
up again and keep on walking.
Friends in our journey home to be
with our heavenly Father we don’t
need to be speed demons. We just
need to be endurance walkers. One
step every day, with Jesus Christ,
our Lord and Saviour.
New To Our Family
If you are new to the Paradise Pointe
Ministries family, we welcome you!
We are thankful that God uses us to
help others, such as yourselves to find
peace and joy through the salvation
offered by Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for
us. We would urge you to find a good
God believing, Bible believing church
and surround yourselves with other
Christians. You are going to need them
and they will need you.
If you have any questions or have a
prayer request please do not hesitate to
contact us at, [email protected].
Again welcome to the family of God!
Pastor’s Pen He's got the whole world in his hands.
He's got the whole wide world in his hands. He's got the whole world in his hands. He's got the whole world in his hands.
Genesis 1:1 opens the incredible book of God’s Living Word by exclaiming His sovereignty.
Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
This opening verse is essential for us to begin to enter into a serious study of the Kingdom of God. This short verse introduces us to the Sovereign of all creation here in the earth, on the earth and all that is above the earth.
It describes to us right from the start three important areas. His realm, reign and regency.
First let’s take a quick glance at His realm. We find that the scope of God’s rule is transcendent. We cannot see His sovereignty by just looking at what is around us because He was present even before anything existed.
Therefore because God existed before anything existed, and because nothing can exist without being created, as the creator of all this, God encompasses all things.
Next we look at His reign. God’s ruling power is seen in His will, His word and His works. By His will He decides, designs and does all that has ever been done, is being and will be done for all eternity.
By His word He spoke all creation into being, by His word we are able to find encouragement, direction, courage and solace as we journey home.
By His works we can without any doubt see His power. When we look at a breathtaking sunrise or sunset or experience the force of a storm. When we hear the cry of a newborn baby. When we feel His presence within us we experience His power.
Finally God’s regency. God’s regency or right to rule is something that no creature can question. It’s found in the simple fact of His preexistence and holiness.
So as the Creator, He reveals His holy nature that is complete and pure. All Kingdom power and authority flow through Him and He offers it to us.
Welcome! We are excited to launch our monthly newsletter. Thank you for subscribing and all we ask is that if you find it insightful and helpful that you let others know. It is our sincerest prayer that this newsletter will help those that are in a spiritual need to find a comfort and solace in the only place that truly fulfills and that is in a relationship with Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, the Son of the Living God. It was only through the relationship with Him that I finally found an inner peace that now gives a tremendous purpose and direction to my life knowing that all is well with my soul and I hope you will find it also. We would love to hear from you. Let us know how the ministry has impacted your life and if you have any suggestions as to how we can improve the newsletter. All comments will be looked at seriously as it is only together that we truly can become a force for God. God bless everyone. Pastor Phil Eckstein
Join us this September as we celebrate our 5th Anniversary of bringing God’s Word worldwide, to all the nations, over Satellite, Cable and the Internet. As part of our celebrations we are proud to announce that we will be bringing a Worldwide Online Evangelistic Revival series of meetings September 23-25 and Sunday September27.
There will be uplifting anointed music with messages coming from various speakers. It is our sincerest prayer that you will join us and let others know who are in need. Together we can reach more for the Kingdom Of God. We will be posting more info as we draw closer to the date on www.acsn.tv and www.paradisepointeministries.com
LIGHT-TRAVEL TIME: A PROBLEM FOR THE BIG BANG by Jason Lisle, Ph.D.
The ‘distant starlight problem’ is sometimes used as an argument
against biblical creation. People who believe in billions of years
often claim that light from the most distant galaxies could not
possibly reach earth in only 6,000 years. However, the light-
travel–time argument cannot be used to reject the Bible in favour
of the big bang, with its billions of years. This is because the big
bang model also has a light-travel–time problem.
The background:
In 1964/5, Penzias and Wilson discovered that the earth was
bathed in a faint microwave radiation, apparently coming from
the most distant observable regions of the universe, and this
earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978.1 This Cosmic
Microwave Background (CMB) comes from all directions in
space and has a characteristic temperature.2,3 While the
discovery of the CMB has been called a successful prediction of
the big bang model,4 it is actually a problem for the big bang.
This is because the precisely uniform temperature of the CMB
creates a light-travel–time problem for big bang models of the
origin of the universe.
The problem:
The temperature of the CMB is essentially the same
everywhere5—in all directions (to a precision of 1 part in
100,000).6 However (according to big bang theorists), in the
early universe, the temperature of the CMB7 would have been
very different at different places in space due to the random
nature of the initial conditions. These different regions could
come to the same temperature if they were in close contact. More
distant regions would come to equilibrium by exchanging
radiation (i.e. light8). The radiation would carry energy from
warmer regions to cooler ones until they had the same
temperature.
The problem is this:
even assuming the big bang timescale, there has not been
enough time for light to travel between widely separated
regions of space. So, how can the different regions of the
current CMB have such precisely uniform temperatures if they
have never communicated with each other?9 This is a light-
travel–time problem.10
How can one side of the visible universe ‘know’ about the other side if
there has not been enough time for the information to be exchanged?
The big bang model assumes that the universe is many billions of
years old. While this timescale is sufficient for light to travel from
distant galaxies to earth, it does not provide enough time for light to
travel from one side of the visible universe to the other. At the time
the light was emitted, supposedly 300,000 years after the big bang,
space already had a uniform temperature over a range at least ten
times larger than the distance that light could have travelled (called the
‘horizon’)11 So, how can these regions look the same, i.e. have the
same temperature? How can one side of the visible universe ‘know’
about the other side if there has not been enough time for the
information to be exchanged? This is called the ‘horizon problem’.12
Secular astronomers have proposed many possible solutions to it, but
no satisfactory one has emerged to date (see Attempts to overcome the
big bang’s ‘light-travel–time problem’).
Summing up:
The big bang requires that opposite regions of the visible universe
must have exchanged energy by radiation, since these regions of space
look the same in CMB maps. But there has not been enough time for
light to travel this distance. Both biblical creationists and big bang
supporters have proposed a variety of possible solutions to light-
travel–time difficulties in their respective models. So big-bangers
should not criticize creationists for hypothesizing potential solutions,
since they do the same thing with their own model. The horizon
problem remains a serious difficulty for big bang supporters, as
evidenced by their many competing conjectures that attempt to solve
it. Therefore, it is inconsistent for supporters of the big bang model to
use light-travel time as an argument against biblical creation, since
their own notion has an equivalent problem.
*Articles for our Christian scientific section are drawn from
Creation.com a website where Christian scientists look into showing
us the scientific proof of the Bible.*
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