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OSIRIS-REx they're calling it, supposedly a mere technical acronym. It is a mission to travel to the asteroid Bennu, map it, take a sample, and return to Earth, so that they can analyze the sample and learn what part asteroids played in bringing the building blocks of life to Earth.      This is stupid for several reasons. First of all, we can tell you with total confidence that asteroids had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with life on Earth. There were no building blocks. Stop passing off theories as facts!!     "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). All anyone has to do is read the first 3 chapters of the Bible and he will know the answers to all kinds of questions that people pose today. No need for philosophy. No need for "discovery" missions to "unlock the secrets of Earth's origins", etc. God was there in the beginning. He did it, and He tells us about it in His book. Instead of spending astronomical a...

Text: Hebrews 11:24-27     Moses renounced his association with Pharaoh and the Egyptian government. I wonder if any of us fully realize how much that decision cost him? He gave up more than most political and social hopefuls among Evangelicals have ever dreamed of. Yet, according to the logic of many professing Christians in our times, he should have stayed. After all, didn’t they need believers in politics and government? ·   He could have used his position to fight for a better life for the      Lord’s people. ·   He could have been a friend in high places. ·   He could have impeded corruption and godlessness in the      Egyptian government. ·  He could have gotten a movement started, rallying people to      clean up government.        But Moses, having thought it over, chose to suffer with the people of God. It was, accord...