Josh Hamilton

No, I'm not a Texas Rangers fan...but I have to admit it was fun to hang out a little with the winner of the home-run derby, Josh Hamilton. He's a believer and last year his song when he came up to bat was, "Saved the Day" by PCD. He's a pretty outspoken believer and came out with a book recently about his return to Christ. He got off track in his teens but has come back strong. That gives me hope for all the youth who get confused or misguided in their teen years. Here's one who came back, a modern-day prodigal.

Some Things Never Change

Bathing can be dangerous to your health. Believe it or not, there was a time in our recent American history that this was accepted as truth. Go farther back into early medicine and things like "bloodletting" (draining a certain amount of a person's blood) were popular remedies. Of course we've discovered that bathing is not really dangerous and bloodletting is.

More recent history has revealed other adjustments to popular thinking:
Coffee shortens lifespan. Now it's actually believed that a cup of coffee a day could actually be helpful.

Eggs in any quantity raise cholestrol.They are still debating this one but most health experts now believe that there is a compound in eggs that helps the body deal with the "bad" stuff in eggs.

When I think about the changing world of medicine and science, it gives me comfort to know that there are some things that never change.

We've been studying 1 Corinthians on Wednesdays and it's fired me up...especially the first few chapters where Paul talks about the unchanging wisdom of the cross versus "foolish" worldly wisdom.In verse 19 of chapter one, Paul reaches back to Isaiah 29:14, where the Lord says, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will set aside." While information and knowledge of the sciences increase, the power of the cross still stands. Methods for growing churches will change, but this will never change: The wisdom of the cross is greater than the wisest man.I'm glad some things never change.

I'm really looking forward to Sunday, getting back together with God's people and talking about the things that never change. Pastor Terry Smith from West Orange, NJ will be with us. It's gonna be good.