Read to your children, and give them books to read. The need for children to read and hear stories is vitally important. But not just any stories will do. It is important that they read the right kind of stories. Just as children need to eat the right kind of food, they also need a … Continue reading Are Your Children Reading the Right Kind of Stories? (It’s more important than you may imagine.)
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here About four and a half years ago, our family's path was redirected into a very different sort of work than we had ever been involved in before. We would now be working in an apologetics ministry, demonstrating the reliability of the Bible, specifically the ancient Old Testament accounts. The … Continue reading Radiocarbon Dating: A Gift from God
As a homeschooling family, my wife will occasionally take advantage of online videos as a tool of instruction in a certain subject. Videos can be especially good for peaking a child's interest in the sciences. The Moody Institute of Science produced a number of educational videos in the late 1940's and early 1950's that show … Continue reading God of the Atom (by Olivia Hall)
Truthfully, I've never met a tool that actually does care about your feelings. But there are some tools that have garnered a reputation of being rather sinister, and radiocarbon dating is certainly in that category for many people in our day. Telescopes had this reputation in days gone by, which is briefly explained in a paragraph below. … Continue reading Tools That Don’t Care About Our Feelings (like Telescopes and Radiocarbon Dating)
As you are enjoying this Christmas season, relishing in some of your favorite holiday activities—dashing around in a one-horse open sleigh, gliding along with a song of a wintry fairy land, roasting chestnuts over an open fire, dancing merrily in the new old-fashioned way, just feeling all around holly, jolly—I appreciate you taking a few … Continue reading Christmas Update 2023
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here How old is the earth? When was it created? Is our planet only thousands of years old, or is it actually millions (or even billions) of years old? After the progress we have seen in science and discovery over the last 150 years, most folks are aware that science … Continue reading How Old is the Earth?
The local church where I served as an Assistant Pastor for nearly twenty years is celebrating their 40th anniversary at the time of this post being published. Our family attended the anniversary service where I gave a short testimony. The following is some of what I shared. Some folks are born into farming families, some … Continue reading Looking Back on Twenty Years (The Story isn’t Over Yet)
When was the last time you worried, “What are we going to eat?” I do not mean “what” as in that most difficult choice between Panera Bread or Jersey Mike’s. I mean “what” as in, “What food do I have today to feed my family?” In our modern day, in America, our biggest food annoyance … Continue reading Thankful for the Farmers
Here is something you may have never thought of before. I want to present an amazing and unusual thought experiment. Without getting into all of the particulars, I will simply lay this idea onto the table for consideration, and maybe some discussion. (This is a concept that Dr. Gerald Aardsma presented in the mid 1990's, … Continue reading Miracles of Creation: A Thoughtful Exploration
Is Jesus Christ King? I mean, is He King over all things, right now? If you ask this question to most any Christian, the answer of course will be a resounding, “Why, yes! Of course Jesus is King.” However, if you press the issue and begin to probe a bit about what this actually means, … Continue reading A Question That Confuses Many Christians (but really shouldn’t)
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here As I am sure you are aware, Israel has been in the headlines lately. Many are greatly concerned and praying for the situation in the middle east. Our work here at The Biblical Chronologist and Truth in Time is necessarily intertwined with the nation of Israel in a big way. While we have … Continue reading The Attack on Israel You May Be Unaware of
The future is going to be surprising. Great inventions and creations are unexpected, they always come as a surprise. If you guarantee everything and try to control everything, these surprises don’t happen, and the future is bleak. - George Gilder 1 Great stories are always full of surprises. I just recently finished reading the second … Continue reading The Future is Going to be Surprising
Life is funny. Life can sometimes be funny in the sense of "strange" or "odd." But what I mean here is that life is funny, as in laugh-out-loud funny. Sometimes it is more like "small-chuckle funny," and sometimes it is downright "belly-laugh funny." Just look around. God most definitely has a sense of humor. The … Continue reading Ragamuffins – A New Comic Strip by Ethan
🎧 Listen to the article: "I read something to the kids today from 'Little Town on the Prairie' that was so good. It brought me to tears." My wife reads to our homeschooled children throughout the week. They are presently in the "Little House" series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. She told me this … Continue reading How Laura Ingalls Could Save our Country
Our last two podcasts contain what you might call an "atomic bomb" in the world of Christian apologetics. This new podcast, along with Part 1, discusses in detail the historicity of the biblical manna account. I will boldly state that there has never been a discovery so evidently demonstrating the validity and accuracy of the … Continue reading MANNA DISCOVERED – BCM Podcast: Manna Part 2
Back in the early days of our marriage and ministry, we used to dream about having a “traveling ministry.” We’d talk about the idea of taking our three young children out on the road to churches in a gospel-oriented ministry. We wondered what it would be like to go from church to church, living in … Continue reading An Early Dream
I have heard of things “going viral” on social media, but I have never experienced it. Until now. Two of our daughters, Olivia (10) and Annalise (8), played and sang together in a church service, we posted it on YouTube and, as of this writing, it has over 320,000 views and continues to climb. (You … Continue reading I Am Shocked
Paul was obviously not concerned about hurt feelings, and he certainly didn’t “walk on egg shells” when dealing with a matter. Two ladies in the local church in Philippi named Euodia and Syntyche were having a bit of a spat. In his letter to this church (the New Testament book of Philippians) Paul names them … Continue reading Help for Anxiety
https://media.rss.com/bcmessenger/feed.xml Show Notes / Listen Here You don't want to miss this month's podcast as the discovery of manna is publicly presented for the first time. Jennifer and I have a lively discussion that brings to light many aspects of the manna discovery which are found in the new book, Bread from Heaven: the Manna … Continue reading BCM Podcast: Introducing the Manna Discovery
Some newcomers have joined us here on the blog as well as on our podcast, so I thought we would take a post to help get acquainted a bit. Welcome New here? Let's have some introductions. My name is Steve, the scrivener of these here missives (and owner of a well-worn thesaurus), and my wife … Continue reading Introductions and Some Fun Facts
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