Chuck and I became addicted to watching this living history series. We started with the Victorian farm and followed it with the Edwardian farm, and Wartime Farm.

The series is fascinating and consists of two archeologists and a domestic historian who live for a full year on a farm, living life as it was in the particular time period.

The final one we haven't seen is the Tudor farm.

For those who love books, they have accompanying books and how they had to live and act accordingly by the time period.

It has been a way since I've welcomed new members, so here you go, welcome! Tips: I recommend reserving your public-facing controversial remarks for groups and pages and keeping your personal profile, well, personal. Watch your settings on your posts. There are only 3: everyone, friends, just you. We have an android app; get it in the Play store. Iphone will be deployed when I feel good and ready. The classified ad area is presently FREE for posting in. I reserve the right to change this. Groups, pages, the marketplace, forum, and ways to find people are in the menu to the left. Welcome!

Entirely different is the prevailing attitude in the modern Church; far from recognizing, as the author of Hebrews does, the intellectual basis of faith, many modern preachers set faith in sharp opposition to knowledge.

Christian faith, they say, is not assent to a creed, but it is confidence in a person.

The Epistle to the Hebrews on the other hand declares that it is impossible to have confidence in a person without assenting to a creed. 'He that cometh to God must believe that he is.'

The words, 'God is,' or 'God exists,' constitute a creed; they constitute a proposition; and yet they are here placed as necessary to that supposedly non-intellectual thing that is called faith.

It would be impossible to find a more complete opposition than that which here appears between the New Testament and the anti-intellectualistic tendency of modern preaching.

— J. Gresham Machen, 'What is Faith?'

This is a great reminder of Amos... “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the Lord. “People will stagger from sea to sea And from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, But they will not find it. - Amos 8:11,12 NASB

“The “I just take Christianity on (blind) faith” attitude can’t be the right approach.

It leaves the Bible without defense, yet Peter directs us to make a defense for the hope that is in us.

Also, the biblical word for faith, pistis, doesn’t mean wishing.

It means active trust.

And trust cannot be conjured up or manufactured.

It must be earned.

You can’t exercise the kind of faith the Bible has in mind unless you’re reasonably sure that some particular things are true.

In fact, I suggest you completely ban the phrase “leap of faith” from your vocabulary. Biblical faith is based on knowledge, not wishing or blind leaps.

Knowledge builds confidence and confidence leads to trust.

The kind of faith God is interested in is not wishing.

It’s trust based on knowing, a sure confidence grounded in evidence.’ – Greg Koukl

Next Sunday, May 2, 2021, we will be having live streamed and in person services at the Chapel.

We will be live streaming our worship service at 11:15 a.m. To watch, go to our Facebook page (under videos).

https://missionvalleychapel.org/


Our in person service will include:
10 am Sunday School, Tom Cantor teaching adult Sunday school
11:55 a.m. refreshments
11:15 a.m. Worship Service, Tom Cantor preaching the sermon
-Communion following the message

I have a stupid dog that continues to chase cars. Other options for stopping this haven't work or aren't practical. Here is what I would like: a motion activated sensor to detect oncoming vehicles; when the sensor is triggered, something sends a signal to a location several hundred feet AWAY from the road, where a treat is delivered. I would then condition the dog so that whenever a car approaches, it should run to the back yard to get its treat. I assume a light or sound accompanying the original sensing and the delivery of the treat will aid in this.

Anyone hear of such a thing? Anyone have a good line on the materials to create such a system?