500 Days of Prayer for America

04/20/2024

My meditation today is this verss...

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."

Is 43:19

We have been in this home about 21 months now. Tomorrow, it becomes a church...at least for a few hours.

God sent me to Seminary, and led me to obtain an excellent theological education (over a period of 20 years at DBU), and quite frankly, for reasons unknown to me.

Tomorrow morning, another older couple will join us in our living room to "assemble ourselves together in His name...", knowing "where two or three are joined together...there I am in the midst of them." About a dozen have been invited, I do not expect anything other than our neighbor. Another set of neighbors I plan to invite are away on a cruise.

I have no idea what God has in mind. All I know is that #1 "I am not worthy;" #2 I answered a call from that "still small voice," which has been a very annoying voice by the way my entire lifetime...(think "if you build it they will come" sort of thing from that movie) in 1973, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us..." I know God sent me to my Nineva moving from my beloved state of Texas to Florida...

All I know is that tomorrow 4 people will live stream together...nothing fancy. Just fellowship.

Please be patient with me, God isn't finished with me yet...

08/05/2022

500 Days from today! Let's revive this page and pray for our nation!

"...if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."

2 Ch 7:14

05/13/2020

If ever there was a need for prayer for this great nation, it is now!

06/15/2018

Hello Prayer Warriors! We 4,444 followers, and I'm calling on you to commit to pray daily for Donald Trump, the POTUS God gave us!

06/15/2018

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09/21/2017

Will you help me educate our youth in the Sciences of Astronomy & Meteorology?

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09/21/2017

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07/20/2017

"Great are the works of the LORD,

studied by all who delight in them.

Full of splendor and majesty is his work..."

Ps 111:2-3

I've been a student of the Cosmos most of my life. It is largely what defines me, & it is closely connected with my soul.

God used a Grandfather whom I hardly even knew to ignite a spark in me through Astronomy that became a rageing forest fire.

Astronomy has had almost as much influence on shaping me into who I am as has my search and study of Biblical Scripture. And how fitting, as Astronomy illustrates God through Natural Revelation, where Scripture completes our view & understanding of God & his creative act through what we Theologians call Special Revelation.

Science & Scripture are perfect companions, and it is remarkable how they teach the exact same lesson to the man willing to seek answers with an open heart & mind.

Science teaches us an invisible force binds the Universe together (dark matter) and the Bible states the same truth:

"For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible..."

Col 1:16

Science teaches there was a Creation event, which we call the Big Bang, in which we see our universe currently expanding. Scripture once again is validated by science:

"...my right hand spread out the heavens..."

Is 48:13

The wonders God has allowed me to see...Lunar Eclipses, Galaxies, Nebula, Quasars, Sunrises & Sunsets on the Moon, a Comet break into a 'string of Pearls' & their effects on the gas giant Jupiter upon their impact on its atmosphere, the rings of Saturn in various angles over decades of study, bright magnificent Comets as they orbit our Sun, Solar prominences, Sunspots & Solar flares, Nova & Supernova, Fireballs & Meteors in our atmosphere, an impact flash on our moon, Variable Stars...

You have not experienced all that God has for us until you stand in a field far from city lights gazing up in awe at the mystery that is our Universe from sunset until sunrise. One gazes up at the Summer Milky Way or the bright winter constellations & stars and it is as though the Universe screams of the presence of God!

Only the fool experiences such magisty yet goes away rejecting God.

"For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse..."

Romans 1: 18-20

"The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork."

Ps 19:1

"Sometimes when I am alone under the stars, I look out into space & wonder if our works look as small to God as His looks great to us..."

Herbert Clinton Carroll, my Grandfather, 1928

04/15/2017

"Many are the plans in the mind of a man,
but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand."

Prov 19:21

I often have to remind myself...

01/22/2017

423 Year old page from the Geneva Bible, Job Chapter 9, also called 'The Astronomy Chapter.'