Good refutes to another scientific explaination as to how the world began

Some scientists don't believe that the planets were created by a big bang, but they do believe that gravity pulled some dust particles together, and more dust started to come together, and, over a long period of time, just like snow packs together, this dust started to get more compact and started drawing more dust.
1. If that's true, then maybe that's why Columbus thought that the world was smaller than it actually was; the previous calculation of the world's size was actually true, it was just that America and the Indians had just formed out of some new dust.
2. I don't think water came from dust.
3. If living things could form out of dust particles, then the top of my dresser would be flowing with new living creatures and plants that aren't anywhere else in the universe. If you say, "Well the dust takes a long time to draw together and form something living"... O, it's been there for a long time!

Another look at the sowing-reaping lesson

Micah 7:13: Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
We read this verse in family devotions today, and that last part of the verse struck me hard; it was "for the fruit of their doings." The land was desolate, with nothing good or healthy in it, because, as the verse says, the fruit of their doings wasn't very good either. You know, you do reap what you sow, but you also eat what you reap, and if you're not sowing anything good, then you're not reaping anything good, and if you're not reaping anything good, then you're not eating anything good, and if you're not eating anything good, you're going to die.

#1 Refute to the Big Bang Theory

Bangs have never created life; only destroyed it.

It is Now the Last Week of School for Me! Yay!

Keep praying...

Why do we always seem to skip over our time with God?

I find it amazing how, when we look at our schedules and we find it busy, or we find that we have an appointment early in the morning, or when get to bed late and just want to sleep in, the first thing we take off our list is usually our devotion time (maybe you don't have to have a list that says "devo's" on it but you just skip them anyways). I fall into this pit so many times w/out even realizing I'm there. It's like mom tells me, "You have a dentist appointment at 8:30 tomorrow morning," and I think, "Well, I'll have to get dressed, make my bed, take out the trash, eat breakfast... looks like I aint havin devotions tommorrow," or, like a lot of times, it happens this way, "O man, it's late already tonight, I'm tired, and I just wanna sleep in. I guess I'll just sleep through my normal devotion time," and I'm ok with that. I don't even think of it as being sin. One thing that I could also go awhile about on this post about is that this sin of course could also be categorized with the whole "setting your priorities straight," but thats a whole nother sermon. So just pray for me that I'll stop skipping over my devotions all the time, and since I know that it's a big trap for all of us in the youth group, just pray that all of us would find the time to be with our Best Friend (kind of ironic + sad that we don't want to spend time with our self-proclaimed "best friend"), and that we would not skip the awesome profitable time that we need to spend with Him every day.

Research paper done

I finally finished my research paper! Yay! It was 7 and 1/2 pages long until mom graded it. Then it went down to 5 and 1/2 pages. But it only had to be 5 so, it's still good. My online teacher gave me a 112/120 on it. One of the reasons i didn't get 120/120 is because I numbered my bibliography sources and I guess I wasn't supposed to do that. Keep praying for me though to finish school well because I have a lot of Lit to do now.

God's Grace is Sufficient

I was really having a rough time with my research paper recently, and it was really boring, and I really despised sitting down and getting information, and not really anything was going right - and it was getting really frustrating. But God laid it on my heart today that maybe it was because I was slacking in my devotions. And to be completely honest, I can't remember the last time I had my devotions. Maybe it was a week ago. Maybe two weeks. And I tell you what, being away from God for that long is frustrating, and it's depressing, and it's rough. So I asked God to forgive me and I asked Him to help me get back on track and to help me in my research paper, and it was really cool because things are fitting into place now and I've been hitting some valuable information for my paper and it's actually been exiting (and for socialism and capitalism and economics, that's pretty cool) to be finding the information. Anyways, it was a miracle that I was having fun putting that stuff together and making progress and filling out note cards for it, so just keep praying that I will be in God's word every day and that I will be able to get 5 pages worth for my paper and that I will get a good grade on it, and that I will feel worthy of the good grade, and that I will keep relying on God to help me along. Thanks guys, it's great to know that people are praying for you. Mark D.

Even though the bread is beaten over and over again, still it rises.