Christopher Hitchins ... dead reckoning.

The world famous atheist is dead. 

He spent his entire life fighting against something he claims didn't exist.  Let's think about that for a minute.  How many people do you know who would spend their life fighting against the belief in a flying spaghetti monster?

Nobody.

So why did he do it?  Why was he so passionate and profane in his attacks against God, while at the same time claiming he didn't even believe He existed?

He actually admitted why on a radio interview he did with Todd Friel. He said that he wanted to live his life his way without any accountability.  And so he did.  (As did Frank Sinatra who even wrote a song about it.)

So there you have it ... he denied science, history, ethics, biology, and logic ... just to live the way he wanted to.  Sounds a lot like the same sin as in the Garden ... how little man has changed since creation.

Sadly, Christopher has now learned how foolish he was, and how dear the consequences for our sin.  We can hope that before he died he repented and trusted in Jesus, but he was kicking and screaming his hatred towards God until the very end.  So sad.  Kind of like someone standing in a train tunnel, feeling the vibrations, seeing the bright light, and feeling the fast breeze approaching, while the whole time screaming that there is no such thing as a train.

The instant of impact there is realization and regret.  We don't take pleasure in his eternal suffering, but he had many, many opportunities to repent.  He has left a legacy of hatred, pride, and lies that have the potential of leading many people down into that train tunnel of hopelessness and despair. 

What a tragically sad, destructive life.

A lesson for us all ... how not to live.

First Solo Flight ....

On this day, in 1987, I performed my first solo flight from Buttonville Airport (YKZ).

That was 24 years ago!  Wow … and yet, it is so vivid in my mind still.

It was perfect weather, and I remember my flight instructor Richard, after I did a couple of circuits, he got out of the plane, and reached in to get the mic.  He said to the controller “Taxi for first solo”.  I felt like everyone in the airport was looking at me.  LOL

They cleared me to taxi, and I remember waiting for what seemed like a very long time.  Had it been anything but a first solo I am certain they would have cleared me to take off several times before they did.  It was like they wanted nobody around … I remember my legs nervously shaking as I was strongly holding the brakes.  A plane touched down, and I was cleared to take off. 

All of my training up to that point was on a Cessna 150.  For the first time we were in a 152.  They are very similar, but the 152 has a little more power and they have different flap configurations.  

They tell you during your training that on your first solo the plane will leave the ground a lot sooner, since you are for the first time flying about 200 pounds lighter.  That, coupled with the increased horsepower of the 152, and it was amazing how soon the plane left the ground.  Once I was in the air I was not nervous at all, and I just followed my training.   It was a textbook circuit.  I was then instructed to taxi back to the tie-down since they only let you do one solo circuit your first time.

 

It was quite an achievement for me.   

A lifelong dream realized.  

Dr. Death ... dead ... at last.

Serial killers are getting more and more popular these days.  They even give the "Order of Canada" to one of the worst serial killers in the country.  What a demented world that celebrates mass murder.  The government even pays for the murders.  Oh, Canada? 

Dr. Death will not kill anyone else.  70% of his victims were disabled.  It takes a big man to kill a disabled person, doesn't it?  I'm glad he spent years in prison, but that is a party compared to the justice God will be inflicting on him for eternity.  

If you are not in heaven being a praise offering you will spend eternity in hell being a burnt offering.

Good Friday ... now Earth day?

Is it really surprising that a secular Godless world would choose to worship the creation rather than the Creator?  (Rom 1:25) How sad.  And very sad for a company like Google who chose the new pagan worship day today instead of the single most important day in the whole year for each and every person on the earth.

The day that Jesus chose to sacrifice Himself to the most brutal of torture, mocking, spitting, whipping, beating, and finally being nailed to a cross.  Why did He do this?  Why would God come to this Earth He created?  He came to seek and save the lost.  That's you.  That's me.  Well, that was me.  I was lost ... living in darkness.  Unaware of my wretchedness.  But - praise God - I am no longer living in darkness.  I am no longer skipping down the broad road to destruction. 

Good Friday ... the day that the sins of the world - for the "few" who would repent and trust in Jesus - were taken upon our Lord.  An event so magnificent that all of our dating is based upon it.  An event that on the 3rd day was confirmed by the miracle of a bodily resurrection, witnessed by hundreds of people.  This event so transformed the world, that even thousands of years later ... is impacting the lost in a profound way.

Please take some time this Good Friday to appreciate His sacrifice for you.

Church of Climate Change

The current religious movement that worships "mother earth" instead of "Father God", and uses worship of the environment and the fictitious "global warming" scam to replace the worship of our Creator and Saviour God, had one of their international worship services at the U.N.

The executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change offered up a prayer to a pagan moon goddess during her opening statement at a UN climate conference in Cancun.  Christine Figueres invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel, noting that Ixchel was not only goddess of the moon, but also “the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving.  May she inspire you, because today you are gathered to weave together elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools.”