The Island of Logic

We recorded To Canaan’s Land last night. I have added our other songs also. Let me know what you guys think.

Dave K. (Lead)
Loren S. (Tenor)
Jason M. (Baritone)
James G. (Bass)

Click on the play buttons below to play the desired song.

To Canaan’s Land

Kum Ba Yah

It’ll Be Joy

At the Crossing

God on the Mountain

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

One Scarred Hand

We recorded Kum Ba Yah tonight and had It’ll Be Joy remixed. I think it sounds a little better now. Let me know. Thanks

Dave K. (Lead)
Loren S. (Tenor)
Jason M. (Baritone)
James G. (Bass)

Click on the play buttons below to play the desired song.

Kum Ba Yah

It’ll Be Joy

At the Crossing

God on the Mountain

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

One Scarred Hand

We attempted to to record another song tonight, It’ll Be Joy, at the top of the list below. BEWARE this is unmastered and raw, so hold onto your seats.

Dave K. (Lead)
Loren S. (Tenor)
Jason M. (Baritone)
James G. (Bass)

Click on the play buttons below to play the desired song.

It’ll Be Joy

At the Crossing

God on the Mountain

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

One Scarred Hand

This is a questionaire that we are completing at my church, and I thought that I would post mine here.

1. What is a Christian?
A Christian is a follower of Jesus Christ. A Christian is a person that has asked Christ for forgiveness for their sins, and has an ongoing personal relationship with Him.

2. What does “being a Christian” mean for you?
A Christian means to me that Christ is first in my life. Being a Christian means to me that I can talk to Jesus whenever, while I’m driving, lying in bed, at my desk, He’s always there. It means to me that I place Christ in control of my attitudes and desires. This is easier said than done, but with His help all things are possible.

3. What sets Christianity apart from all other religions? (Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism)
First, Christianity does not have a list of requirements to achieve. God simply asks us to accept His son’s sacrifice for our sins, by demonstrating that acceptance with our lives. Second, Christianity’s founder rose from the dead. No other religion’s founder lives on today. Third, Christianity has hundreds of prophesies that have been fulfilled especially those predicting the birth of Christ. Fourth, Christianity has over and over again made remarkable changes in people’s lives, even when all other secular avenues had been exhausted. 

4. What do you think should be the most distinctive character of a Christian?

The most distinctive characteristic of a Christian should be his or her’s attitude towards life.

5. What do you think is the greatest threat to Christianity?

The greatest threat to Christianity today is a half-hearted, lukewarm church. 

6. The Bible says “Come out from among them and be ye separate”. What does that mean?

This means that as a Christian we are to be different than the world in the following ways, our interests, our attitude, our response in the face of contention, our response to tragedy, and our goals in life.

7. If your parents were any other religion; would you have chosen Christianity and why?

I would hope that I would have, but I cannot definitively say that I would have. It would depend on the Christians that I would have come in contact with and what type of example they would have left. (Thinking about this validated for me again how important our witness is.)

8. Why is prayer so important to the Christian?

Prayer is so important because it is the way we communicate with God. There are many ways that God communicates with us, His Word, our conscience, the Holy Spirit, etc., but prayer is our way of communicating back with Him. Prayer is also important because it causes a closer relationship. Those that we communicate with the most are those that are closest to us.

9. Has “Freedom of Religion” helped or hindered Christianity?

Religious freedom has caused many in the American Church to become stagnant. Now I am not one to say that the freedom in this country is the entire reason for the degeneration of many churches, but it has been an indirect contributing factor. Religious feedom that we have in this nation has been a bit of a double edged sword. I do however look at the glass as being half full rather than half empty. I believe the benefits that the religious freedom in this nation has provided, way out weights the negatives. Blaming religious freedom for the lukewarmness of the American Church is like blaming the fact that my house is cold on the weather, rather then taking the responsibility for heating my own house. Religious freedom has given almost everyone in this nation at one time or another the opportunity to have heard the Gospel. This is not the case in countries like the former Soviet Union, or even China and North Korea today. Also religious freedom and economic success in this country has given us the ability to travel to other nations of the world spreading the Good News.

10. How will you influence the next generation, the people that you meet, your future children to embrace Christianity?

The best way for me to influence is by example and also by writing as I am doing here.

We just added two more songs to our recording tonight. Here they are in addition to the other songs that we recorded previously.

Dave K. (Lead)
Loren S. (Tenor)
Jason M. (Baritone)
James G. (Bass)

Click on the play buttons below to play the desired song.

At the Crossing

God on the Mountain

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

One Scarred Hand

I am going to delve momentarily into what I believe is the highly controversial subject of the age of the universe. I am going to take a position that many Christians may believe is almost sacrilegious. I have been giving this subject quite a bit of thought and study lately. The accepted secular opinion is that the age of the universe is somewhere around 13 billion years and most Christians believe the age of the universe is somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 years. I am beginning to believe that both of these opinions have some truth to them. Let’s get one thing straight before we get started, “God created the universe”. This is really without dispute. Intelligent design is the only logical explanation for all of this. The mathematical probability of the Big Bang theory or unintelligent design is simply far too enormous to be even accepted by any logical person. The only argument that should exist is between the agnostic and the believer of a caring Creator. The accelerating expansion of the universe and the left over energy of the “Big Bang” have been proved and are without dispute. I however do not believe that these two evidences prove the Big Bang theory, but they are the result of God’s creation of the universe. God created the universe sometime between 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. However when God created the universe he created time before there was time, or maybe stated in a little better way, God created the history of time when he created time. This I believe can be simply proven by looking into the night sky. If we as Christians believe that the age of time is 6,000 to 10,000 years ago end of story, then this simplistic view can be disproved by the viewing the stars and galaxies in the night sky. With our naked eye we can see galaxies that are 10s of millions of light years away. If the age of time was exactly 6,000 to 10,000 years of age there would only be a hand full of stars visible to us. So when God created the universe he created the history of light. It doesn’t take much of an imagination to believe that He also created the history of fossils, geological events, meteor impacts, ice ages, etc., which are really also part of the history of light. To believe that the only source of geological monuments (Rockies, Grand Canyon, etc), oil, fossils, etc. is the Flood; is simply stupid. Another opinion some Christians have is that God created universe around 13 billion years ago and then created our solar system 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. I believe that this theory is disproved by Genesis 1:3 KJV “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” and Genesis 1:16 KJV “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.” The simplest explanation is then, God created the history of time when he created time. In looking at the current accelerating expansion of the universe we can fairly accurately predict the beginning of this history of time and that is a little over 13 billion years ago. There will also be an end to time (Revelations 1:8 KJV “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”). Time is finite, eternity is infinite. What makes eternity infinite is the absence of time. Peter tries  to explain it II Peter 3:8 “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” in other words time means nothing (or does not exist) in eternity. Now to throw away some of my previous assumptions, if time and space themselves are made relative by large gravitational forces while light is a constant as predicted by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity then our predictions of the age of the history of time may be quite substantially inaccurate. God may have stretched the space/time continuum to the point that we result in our current predictions. Which also means, that in theory, time travel is possible. Maybe we will never really know the age of time in the universe until time ends for us, but it sure is fun to try?? Maybe a more appropriate title for this blog entry is the difference between the age of time and the age of the universe. Age of time, according to our calculations, 13 billion plus years. Age of the universe 6,000 to 10,000 years relatively speaking.

I helped with the Gospel Express Florida auction yesterday, and then listened to some of the groups sing in the evening. I have been inspired again to go into prisons. After watching some of the pictures and the powerpoint that the Gospel Express had on their prison ministry I have an increased burden for those in prisons. The quartet (Mercy’s Call), that I am a member of, is planning on going into prisons, and I am looking forward to that more than ever now. Those souls in prison are going to be more receptive to the gospel simply because many of them are at the end of their rope. They have had time to reflect on past mistakes and decisions and realize that there has to be something better. Those that are on the outside that are “free” often turn to other things to fill the void that exists in the absence of Christ. We are in a very unique position when going into prisons. We are meeting some of the hardest people in our society in their most vulnerable state. We have an opportunity and position that would probably not be afforded us would we meet these individuals outside of prison.

In times of  pain
We don’t understand
Why, Lord, why me?
I can’t even stand

But always remember
God is in control
And in times like these
He’s guarding your soul

God is always there
Through thick and thin
And in troubled times
You can only win

When the storms of life
Pound us near and far
Remember Christ, look at his hand
And see His nail scar

God Himself died for you
He won’t leave you now
Thank Him that He’s in control
And gladly before Him bow