Good Shepherd Community Church

06/07/2026

06/06/2026

Join us this Sunday at 11am for worship including the Lord’s Supper!

06/04/2026

"Few Bible readers realize this." https://buff.ly/xgb49EZ

05/12/2026

Every year, countless birds are killed when they fly into glass windows. To human eyes, the glass may look invisible, or it may reflect the sky and nearby trees so clearly that birds mistake it for open air. But hidden within one of nature’s most delicate creations is a solution that scientists only recently began to appreciate.

Orb-weaving spiders produce silk that reflects ultraviolet light. Humans cannot see UV light, but many birds and insects can. This remarkable feature serves two purposes at once. First, it acts like a glowing signal to insects, drawing them toward the web. Second, it warns birds to stay away, helping prevent the web from being destroyed by a flying bird. The spider does not “understand” ultraviolet engineering, optical signaling, or avian vision. Yet the system works with astonishing precision.

Scientists were so impressed by this design that companies began copying it. Special UV-reflective coatings have now been applied to glass windows to help birds avoid deadly collisions. The patterns remain invisible to people, but birds can clearly detect them. Once again, mankind looked to creation and borrowed an idea that God had already built into the natural world from the beginning. The wisdom of the Creator is written into even the strands of a spider web.

05/09/2026

“Christian” liberalism eventually has to deny either Christ, Scripture, or both.

05/07/2026

The story of Creation never had to be written down to survive. It only needed two people.
Adam lived 930 years.
Methuselah was born 243 years into Adam's life. Which means Adam — the man who walked with God in the garden, who heard His voice directly, who watched creation happen around him — personally knew Methuselah for 687 years.
687 years of direct conversation.
Methuselah lived 969 years — the oldest man in recorded history. He overlapped with Shem by 98 years. Which means Noah's son Shem — who survived the flood, who watched the entire world be remade by water — sat with the man who sat with Adam.
Then Shem lived 600 years. He overlapped with Abraham by 150 years.
Do you see what just happened?
The account of Creation — the Garden, the fall, the voice of God walking in the cool of the day — traveled from Adam to Abraham through just two intermediate people. Methuselah and Shem.
Two conversations. Across 2,000 years of history.
Abraham didn't receive a legend passed down through hundreds of generations of broken telephone. He received a firsthand account from a man who received it from a man who was there.
The story never started over. It was never rewritten from memory. It was never reconstructed from fragments.
It was handed down. Person to person. Eyewitness to eyewitness.
We live in a world that assumes ancient accounts are automatically unreliable because they are old. But the Biblical genealogies tell a completely different story — of lifespans so long that the chain of witnesses was extraordinarily short.
Adam to Methuselah to Shem to Abraham.
Four people. Two handshakes. The entire story of the beginning of the world.
Comment below — did you know this before today?
"Remember the days of old. Consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders and they will explain to you." — Deuteronomy 32:7

05/02/2026

Join us for the Lord’s Supper this Sunday.