My dear readers,
1. “Remember now thy Creator”
So concludes the writer of Ecclesiastes in his treatise on the vanity or emptiness of life without God. In his sum-up he says, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.: For God shall bring every work into judgment …” (Eccl 12:13 , 14 ).
Remembering the Creator is the key to successful living, indeed, to meaningful life itself. It is the key to peace – peace in every human and social situation, peace in the home, peace between neighbours and peoples. It is the denial of the Creator and the defiance of His laws which is the root cause of today’s spreading cancer of global unrest, violence and immoral lifestyle, “alternative” or otherwise.
We therefore read with supreme delight of the historic building of a Creation Museum in Kentucky, USA.
2. Creation Museum opens to capacity crowd
By Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
PETERSBURG, KENTUCKY (ANS) – On May 28, 2007, Memorial Day, the $27 million Creation Museum [a ministry outreach of Answers in Genesis (AiG)] opened to capacity crowds.
AiG Founder Ken Ham welcomed visitors with a message that the museum will help Christians defend their faith in an increasingly hostile world.
An ABC News poll released last week revealed that 60 percent of Americans essentially believe in the creation account. “At the museum, we want people to understand the problems with the theory of evolution, and see how science actually supports what the Bible teaches about the origins of the universe, the global flood, and ultimately why Christ came to earth 2,000 years ago,” said Mark Looy, co-founder and chief communications officer of AiG.
The high-tech, 60,000 square-foot facility includes 55 animatronic and static figures (dinosaurs and humans), a 200-seat special-effects theater, and a 30-foot-tall depiction of a section of Noah's Ark. The museum features exhibits created by the man known for designing the “Jaws” and “King Kong” attractions at Universal Studios in Florida. Visitors can also see real dinosaur eggs and dinosaur bones, and enjoy a state-of-the-art 78-seat planetarium. “The purpose of the museum is to use observational science to show that the Bible is true, its history is true and therefore the Gospel is true,” Ham continued. “There are a lot of Ph.D. scientists who believe what the Bible teaches. Both creationists and evolutionists use the same science, and the same evidence – the difference is our pre-existing beliefs [about origins]."
With a strong international media turn-out to cover both the museum’s opening and related events, Ham conducted numerous interviews throughout the day including BBC-TV and Swiss television, returning to the theme of the museum’s place in Christendom and the defense of the Christian faith. “The buzz is out there globally about this place,” Ham noted. “It is incredible that something that is Christian and built on the authority of God’s Word would get such international media attention. This museum will be a rallying point for Christians around the world.”
3. “Walk through the Bible”
“The Creation Museum is a walk-through-the-Bible using science, geology, biology, astronomy and anthropology to confirm the accuracy of biblical history,” said Ham.
“Christians are tired of being beaten down and marginalized in this country. Many are telling us it’s about time we had a place where Christians can stand up and say the Bible is true; its history is true; we can defend it; we have the answers; and we can proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That’s what this museum is all about.”
“Much of the (museum) experience features displays that would be similar to what you would find in a natural history museum, so you will see exhibits on par with some of the fine science museums around the world,” said Mark Looy.
“Because we’re taking our visitors on a walk through history from Genesis to Revelation, it is a biblical museum combining Scripture with the best of what science can present.”
Answers in Genesis is a biblical apologetics ministry which conducts more than 300 teaching meetings each year, hosts an award-winning Website and produces the “Answers” radio program heard on more than 860 stations throughout the United States. (For more information call (888) 582-4253 or www.creationmuseum.org)
4. What does God’s Word say?
Read God’s inspired, infallible, inerrant Word:
a) JOH 1:1-51, John 2 JOH 3:1-0 “ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."
b) Heb 11:3: “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
Lovingly in the Lord
Dr SH Tow, Senior Pastor
Week Supplement 8 July 07
Dear Readers,
God's Word says, "Call unto me and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things ..." (Jer 33:3 ). Read Mr Theng's testimony and be blessed. Keep looking to Jesus always. --- Dr SH Tow
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Testimony by Mr Theng See Fong
On the Saturday morning of 16 June 2007, at about 7am, my wife and I went for a jog at Choa Chu Kang Sports Hall, together with her sister and niece. I had recently gone for a routine check-up with my cardiologist in April 2007 and everything was normal. I went on to jog 7 rounds and was feeling fine. However, as I was doing my warming-down exercises, suddenly both my hands went numb and my chest became uncomfortable. I felt giddy and had to lie down on a nearby bench.
My wife and sister-in-law spotted me and immediately called for an ambulance. By God’s grace, the Sports Hall had lifeguards on duty. When they heard of my plight, they came to render first aid while we waited for the ambulance, and they placed an oxygen mask on me and a tablet under my tongue. They reassured me, telling me to be calm and to breathe slowly.
The ambulance finally arrived 30 minutes later. I was sent to the emergency department of the nearest hospital, NUH, where a medical team including a cardiac specialist was waiting to receive me. An immediate x-ray was performed, and I was informed that I had suffered a heart attack. There was 100% blockage in my right artery, which would require a stent to be inserted, and 65% blockage in my center artery, which could be treated with medication. I had been conscious all this while, and gave my consent for the stent insertion. At this point, my heart stopped.
I could feel the shocks from the defibrillator on my chest as the medical staff tried to resuscitate me. During the resuscitation attempts, I lost consciousness. It was like a dream and I went to a place that had a very bright sky. The next thing I knew, I was being woken by my wife and son calling me.
All throughout this ordeal, I had prayed earnestly to the Lord to save me and recited the Lord’s Prayer. My family also prayed fervently. In his goodness, the Lord showed me his great mercy and grace. He spared me acute pain as I only had numbness in my hands, chest and back discomfort. He placed people along the way who could give me the immediate help that I needed when the heart attack happened, especially the lifeguards at the Sports Hall. The Lord sustained me and kept my heart going until the doctors had finished their diagnosis in the hospital, and enabled them to give me the necessary treatment.
Best of all, He heard our prayers and He gave me back my life. He granted me his wondrous healing, and I thank God as I continue to recover under his care. I am also grateful to the church, in particular Dr Tow, Elder Sim and Preacher Lek, for all their prayers and concern. Truly, God hears our every plea, and we must remember to pray and to trust in Him. He will take care of you.
“Be not dismayed whatever betide,
Beneath his wings of love abide,
Thru’ days of toil when heart doth fail,
When dangers fierce your path assail,
No matter what may be the test,
Lean, weary one, upon his breast”
Philippians 4:6 - “Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”
Week Supplement - 2
Dear Calvarians,
Praise the Lord for continued rain, plus some good breaks for the farmers to sow their seed without getting bogged. They still have to use dry feed for the sheep and cattle as the grass is too short to be nutritious and is acidic due to the drought. It is all looking green and hopeful however and the ploughed/sown paddocks look a dark rich brown.
Pastor Peter had an ascites drain in Darwin on Tuesday morning and definitely missed the help of being chauffeured and pushed around in the wheel chair. They wanted to use a corkscrew-like instrument which he has found to be extremely painful in the past, so he is glad I’ll be there next time to try and streamline the process. It is their normal procedure last year we got the Wagga Dr to communicate the best size canula etc to get the most out, with least pain.
He is having more nose bleeds and bleeding more profusely when scratching, perhaps due to the heat so he is taking an extra tranexamic acid every other day. these thicken the blood and reduce his get up and go to zero, so he hasn’t been working on his book...I feel in a dilemma, wanting to be in 2 places at once. (I will go to Darwin on the 18th for a month)
Ruth and I have followed each other with bad flu and now I have no voice at all, so am having to clap and whistle to get the children to come and do things. James and Grace have been to a Church Camp, which Ruth had to miss. James said the 1.5 hr messages went as if only half an hour, and they were impossible to lose concentration! They come home tomorrow so I shall learn more. The camp director gave an evangelistic message at our fellowship last Lord’s day when we had an influx of aboriginal youth from throughout NSW, brought to Bimbadeen by Pastor Peter’s former students who are now pastors. Many of the youths had never been to church before. they only came for the snow trip on the Saturday PTL ! all for now.
Thanks for your continued prayer for us all.
Anne Clements, 5 July 07