West Main

Camp time is finally here and it is NO exaggeration that we are going to have the biggest, best and most amazing year ever! The theme, lessons, games, activities and facilities are lined up to make this year magical! This year we are starting FRESH at a new camp and WE ARE EXCITED to see what God has planned for us.

 

Please pray for all of our campers and staff this next week. Pray for hearts to be opened to the love of God and pray for our staff as they reach out to our campers to help them grow in God’s love.

 

 

 

 

HE LET US KNOW

 

Our God has highly favored man by what he has allowed him to know and understand. Although the makeup of our bodies is much like those of animals, people have been singled out for knowing that we have a Creator and, in the coming of Jesus Christ, what our Maker is like. He not only made us in his image, but he has treated us with commensurate dignity. In this writing we will marvel at what he has allowed men to understand in both the physical and spiritual realms.

 

 

In scientific studies of matter and light, the units used for measuring size in the material world range from fifteen decimals less than a meter (the Fermi), to fifteen decimals larger than a meter (the light year). Discovery and measurement of this unthinkable separation in size is a monument to man’s insight – gained mostly in the last century. It describes the extent of God’s doing in the realms of the tiny and the vast.

 

 

Laws have been discovered, many of which can be expressed in the logical language of mathematics that govern the physical world and our own bodies. Great order has been seen in what earlier appeared to be disorder. The storehouse of this kind of information has become so large that while making use of it men must specialize in narrow parts of it.

 

 

In the realm of electricity, James Maxwell was able to formulate four equations that describe the behavior of all electromagnetic usages. In producing work from heat energy, Rudolph Clausius discovered the key (entropy) to under-standing the necessary waste of engines we build today. Daniel Bernoulli, in his study of fluids, paved the road to understanding the design of airplanes. Max Planck discovered that light is emitted in quanta, or discrete bundles of energy, and ushered in the use of quantum mechanics. In chemistry, Linus Pauling was able to explain the nature of the bonds that hold atoms together. Einstein gave us equations describing how mass can be changed into enormous bursts of energy.

 

 

These discoveries – and many others – have humbled some men, and have intoxicated others. While men have been allowed to “think God’s thoughts after him” only a few have stopped to acknowledge the Author of it all. Isaac Newton, after publishing his great insights in the movements of earthly and heavenly bodies, declared his conviction that it could not have happened by accident. Amen!

 

 

Still more remarkable has been our God’ revelation of his own nature in the sending of Jesus Christ. While his love for man can be seen in nature by those who look for it, it is shouted out plainly in his revealed word. Truth of this kind has not been left to experimentation. Man’s urgent need to know how we should therefore live explains the emphasis of the Bible on the spiritual instead of the physical world.

 

 

Inseparable from God’s gift of knowing and understanding his Word is the consequent responsibility on the part of man. We must respond to what he has let us know (See John 15:22).

 

– James Gibbs

 

 

 

Graduation Open House  -- Buddy and Melanie Rennels invite you to an Open House as they honor their son, Blain Rennels, on his graduation from Oregon State University. Open house will be Sunday, July 6^th, from 2:00-4:00 p.m., at their home.