Spring of Hope

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions  Several of the structural designers of the original World Trade Center was attending a conference in St. Louis. During the question and answer period a person asked to one of the chief engineers if he had any regrets about the design of the building. When asked this question, the chief structural engineer broke down and in tears he said, that he wished somehow they had made the buildings stronger. "If only", he said, "the buildings could have lasted another hour."  Much of our efforts and accomplishments as humans are directed toward building monuments to our insecurities.  The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the Israeli-Gaza wall, and the wall and the electronic fence being erected along the U.S. border with Mexico are all symbols of human insecurities.  Babel Tower was probably built about 100 years after the great flood at Noah’s time. After the flood, t...

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions  The Book of Genesis is the outline of God's plan of creation and redemption. God made everything and found them good. Chapters 1 and 2 describe the creation story. Chapter 3 tells the story of the root and the fruit of sin that ends up with the first murder happenning in the very second generation through the killing of Abel by his own brother Cain. "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." (Romans 5:12). As the result of the sin of Adam, all men are now born in sin.  As we come to Chapter 6 of Genesis, we see the result of sin pervading as a pandemic to the whole human kind passing from generation to generation resulting in the destruction of the world in the form of a flood. "The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every incl...

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions  The Book of Genesis is the outline of God's plan of creation and redemption. God made everything found them as good. Chapter 3 describes the root of sin whereas chapter 4 is a continuation that describes the fruit of sin. "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." (Romans 5:12). As a result of the sin of Adam, all men are now born in sin. David prayed in Psal 51, “My mother conceived me in sin.” The consequences of sin are permanent and long lasting. It may not be politically correct to say that man is born a sinner. In these days of virtual technologies and social networks, everybody wins and nobody loses. Now we have an image problem. "Can you bring clean thing out of an unclean thing?" (Job 14:4).  Sin is like radioactivity, the effects of which can be carried for gen...