With thankful hearts, we share a brief update, quickly traveling through each month of the past year. Merry Christmas from our family to yours! January - Starting off the year with a life highlight for our entire family, we met little Autumn, our first grandchild/niece. (Our family has now grown to 13 in number!) It was … Continue reading Christmas Update 2025
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here Imagine a time when people were getting sick and dying, sometimes large groups of people at the same time, and living in the same area. Although symptoms were similar in each case, the mysterious illnesses defied conventional cures. Nobody could pinpoint the problem. Maybe it was something in the … Continue reading Life, Death, and the Vitamin Quest
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here In 1991 some hikers, high up in the Alps, discovered a body frozen in the ice. They immediately assumed they had come upon the remains of an unfortunate hiker from some years previous, whose body had been preserved. Little did they know they had stumbled upon the remains of … Continue reading Otzi the Iceman
Over 2.5 million students will begin college as first-time freshmen as the semester begins, and roughly 50% of them will be from some kind of Christian background. https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here Our son Joshua joins us on this three-way conversation! Joshua recently walked the halls of university, graduating with his master's degree a … Continue reading Unfazed: 6 Unique Ideas to Equip Christian Students Heading to University
For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys. Exodus 40:38 It appears that the "pillar of fire" was not actual fire at all, though it certainly looked like fire to those … Continue reading Understanding The Pillar of Fire
The Bible is a book of books with varying types of literature throughout. Do you know how to read your Bible properly? One of the most important steps in strengthening both our own faith and the faith of our children is through learning to read our Bible's properly. The Bible, though one book, is a … Continue reading Reading Your Bible Properly
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here There is an account in the Bible of a group of people who were approached with some "new truth." Some followers of Jesus were sharing the news of Christ with this group. These people handled this news in a very commendable way, as they began to deal with things … Continue reading There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here Think of the many benefits and comforts we currently enjoy due to the research and discovery that has gone before us. We stand on the shoulders of giants today. Albert Einstein was certainly one who contributed numerous breakthrough contributions to science. His discoveries, which include both special and general … Continue reading Solving One of Einstein’s Greatest Mysteries (Einstein’s Biggest Mistake)
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here I can still remember the song like it was yesterday, the voices of the old Gaither Trio singing, "Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord." Part of the song goes like this: Well the ark rose up on the foot of the deep,And after 40 days Mr. … Continue reading Noah’s Ark on Ararat?
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here "If you wanna have faith have faith, but don't tell me you have 'data.' From the Bible!" These and other related statements have recently been made by people interacting with our podcast content. This month we delve into the following questions: How is it possible to start with the … Continue reading “You Can’t Get Data from Myths” – Applying the Scientific Method to the Bible
I had the opportunity to give the opening prayer at our local county board meeting recently. With all of our problems, what a blessing it is to live in a free nation where we can still openly pray to God, and invoke and lift up the name of Jesus in the public arena. May we … Continue reading Prayer at the County Board Meeting
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here Not long ago, one of my sons sent me a video of a modern song that featured a very aged, yet very happy and spirited Dick Van Dyke. Our family has always enjoyed watching old re-runs of the Dick Van Dyke Show with Mary Tyler Moore, as well as … Continue reading Aging: The way it was, the way it is, and where things stand
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here I love the biblical account of Joseph! The trials that Joseph went through, and yet the amazing accomplishments that he performed are a fascinating testimony to the hand of God in his life, as well as the unusual abilities that Joseph must have had. There is another intriguing figure … Continue reading Imhotep, Joseph, and a Cure for Cancer?
It has most certainly been a very busy year for our crew, full of blessings, challenges, long days, answered prayers, new friends, and God's leading to unexpected places! For the purpose of this post, we decided to keep things simple and share 24 points of remembrance from 2024, in chronological order. #1 - Steve had … Continue reading Christmas Update 2024
You try not to cry at any wedding, but it’s really hard at the wedding of your own daughter. And then, how do you handle things when she chooses to play the theme to Anne of Green Gables, while you as the father of the bride are walking her down the aisle? Well, then there … Continue reading The Marriage of Jared and Katelyn
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here Are you ready to see the Bible to come to life in archaeology? Following on the heels of the compelling evidence we have seen for Israel in the wilderness, we now come to the beginning of the Conquest of Canaan. This month we discuss Jericho, where the Bible says … Continue reading Jericho in Archaeology
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here Our family was recently setting our display table up in a church where we were singing and speaking. A well-dressed lady, probably in her late 60s, picked up a copy of Dr. Aardsma's book Aging: Cause and Cure at the table. She surveyed the covers, and then set the book down … Continue reading Discoveries That Seemed Delusional
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here Is it possible that the pillar of cloud in the wilderness could have an explanation in God's science? the Bible tells us that God led the Israelites through the wilderness by a pillar of cloud by day. It signaled to them when they should remain camped in a certain … Continue reading New Understanding of the Pillar of Cloud (Podcast)
I am thrilled to be accepted by Christian Bible Church of Cissna Park, Illinois, as their pastor. When our family moved to Illinois in 2019, one of the first things we wanted to do was find a new church home. Eventually we visited a small church that I had discovered online, situated just outside of … Continue reading Another Chapter Begins
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here Do you remember the biblical account when God tells Moses to throw a tree into the water and the "bitter" water was made "sweet"? When I was young I pictured Moses tossing a stick of some sort out onto the water, and then the waters miraculously becoming drinkable. I … Continue reading Where the Bitter Water Became Sweet: The Location of Marah (Podcast)
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