Thursday, July 31, 2008

Dinosaurs: Figment of Someone’s Imagination?

Several weeks ago, a co-worker asked me about something he saw on the Discovery Channel. Apparently, a woman who had successfully fled a polygamist cult was interviewed on TV and made the statement, “After I escaped the group, I could then believe in dinosaurs.” My friend asked me what this lady meant.

I explained that some fundamentalist churches actually believe that dinosaurs did not exist in spite of the plethora of archeological proof that is on display in hundreds or even thousands of museums around the world! These people preach that Satan has placed fake dinosaur bones in the earth’s layers so that our faith in the Bible will be weakened!

The rejection of the validity of dinosaurs is (at best) well-meaning, but it is also quite absurd. These folks ignorantly feel that, if you believe that dinosaurs once roamed the earth, you can’t believe in the Bible. Not true.

== The existence of dinosaurs does NOT disprove the Bible!

== The validity of the Bible does NOT disprove the existence of dinosaurs.

We have just recorded a broadcast for Dynamic Christian Ministries which looks into the Genesis Creation account. It shows that Bible believers do NOT have to fear scientific discoveries. In fact, many of these discoveries actually prove the accuracy of historical accounts that are found in Scripture!

I hope you will take the time to watch this broadcast. I think you will find it interesting and informative.

In future broadcasts, we are going to study various topics in the book of Genesis--topics such as giants, fallen angels, cave men, Neanderthals, the pre-Flood world, and Noah’s ark.

--Wes

Thursday, July 24, 2008

UPDATE ON A BUNCH OF STUFF!

Nancy and I just got back from Birmingham, Alabama. We had a wonderful trip and got to fellowship with many of our wonderful brethren from several different states. People came from as far north as Michigan and from as far west as Texas. (Nancy and I weren’t the only ones who came from Texas.) While we were out there, Nancy gave a terrific presentation at the United Christian Ministries annual women’s conference. I didn’t get to hear it live because men weren’t allowed in the conference. Many of the women told me they enjoyed it and now her message is up on our DynamicChristianMinistries.org website. I hope you have a chance to watch this video. I think she did a great job, but maybe I am biased. J

We also added some more music to our website. I am blessed to be able to be in the DCM Trio where we have two terrific female vocalists, Stephanie Stotts and Kim Skelton. We just recently started this thing and we haven’t had a lot of rehearsals. About two weeks ago, we got out a camcorder and said, “Let’s just do this.” So we just started recording songs that we have worked on. The audio is not great from a technical point of view, but I think you will agree that these gals do a great job on their vocals. Our trio has seven new songs on the Music tab of our DCM website. Please check them out.

This Sunday, the DCM cast and crew are going to record another broadcast. The subject will be the Creation in Genesis. The book of Genesis is one of my favorite books of the Bible and I hope you will enjoy the presentation that we will put together for you. Over the years, I have found that people enjoy studying the book of Genesis because it takes you into so many areas: The Garden of Eden, cave men, Neandertal men, giants, fallen angels, the pre-Flood world, etc. Lots of stuff. We can even find the first prophecy of Jesus in the book of Genesis! It doesn’t get any better than that! We are going to talk about all these subjects in future broadcasts. I hope you won’t miss a single one.

We are enjoying some of the comments we get from people who visit our website. One gentleman recently wrote that he appreciated our ministry because it exists to serve the local church and not visa versa. He is correct! DynamicChristianMinistries.org does not exist for the purpose of asking you to help us. We exist to serve people in local churches. We sell nothing. Everything we have is absolutely free. The good part is that we don’t even know who goes to our website and accesses our materials. It’s like we have opened and stocked a store and left a sign on the door that says, “Come in and take what you want. Everything is free.” After hanging the sign, we walked away and we have no idea who is taking what. We don’t know if someone downloads an article or video or audio. We don’t need to know. The only thing that is important is that we want people to know this stuff is out there and it’s free. Praise God for His precious Bible truths which we want to disseminate to as many people as possible.

Please check our DynamicChristianMinistries.org website regularly because we are constantly adding new things. Thanks for listening.

--Wes

Monday, July 7, 2008

We Want Jesus to Return!

We’re always adding things to the website and we hope you benefit from them. We’ve got a couple new songs that will be added to the “Music” tab in the next few days. The titles are A Brand New Song and Wayfaring Stranger. Let me tell you the story behind each one.

Wayfaring Stranger. This was recorded by my band called the Mojos back in the 60s. A long time ago! At that time, I was not a Christian. God had not called me at that point of my life. Back then, I was playing music in dives in Calumet City, Indiana, and in bars in the Old Town section of Chicago. My band played this song simply because we liked it. We had no idea what the words meant. After I was baptized in 1971, I re-looked at these words and then realized their meaning that we are pilgrims and sojourners in this life as we wait for the return of Jesus to rule the earth as King of Kings. The quality of the recording is not that great. If was initially recorded analog on reel-to-reel tape, then transferred to cassette tape, and then transferred to digital CD. I hope you enjoy the music and I hope that the words bring you inspiration.

A Brand New Song. This is song that I wrote not that long ago. The message of the song is really meaningful to me, but the music is somewhat of a lark. One evening, I thought I would try to record the song by laying down all the vocal tracks myself. All the voices you hear on the recording are mine. This is obviously not studio-quality, but I hope you will like it anyway. This song also deals with the return of Jesus.

The return of Jesus should consume our lives! Telling the world of His return should be an overriding obsession of our lives!

Thy Kingdom come!