Fruit of the Spirit

For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth...Eph 5:9

Spring 2004                                                            Volume 5, Issue 2

(Prison Report, continued from page 3)

My understanding is that I can preach and teach the truth from God's word and therefore this is what I do. I often use the illustration of the training which is given to those who will be bank tellers. In order to be able to recognize counterfeit money when it comes in, they are required to diligently study the real, genuine thing. Then, when the fake comes along, they can recognize it quickly!

About the best advice I can give is to not give up. Try to be on the most pleasant terms possible with the chaplain. Anger or threats will seldom accomplish your goal. Let him know that your interest is in helping those who are incarcerated come to a better understanding of God’s word so that they can make better decisions and choices in life with an understanding of God’s will for their lives.

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(Fossil Record, continued from page 7)

underground. When they emerge they are still encased in a protective subterranean suit resembling plastic. After shedding the transparent suit, wings, never before used, but now ready for a new life, are dried in the breeze.

After mating, the female, equipped with a sharp blade, cuts under the bark of a twig, deposits her eggs, and then cuts the twigs three fourths through. As a result, the twig dies, falls to the ground, and carries the eggs to the soil. Then the eggs hatch, and the larvae dig into the ground.

The adults live only about three weeks, and never see their offspring. What makes them operate so? Their defense from being eaten by birds is an unbearable noise, equivalent to that of “a pneumatic hammer or a subway train screeching to a halt in an underground station.” (Dr. James A. Simmons, Princeton University Auditory Research Laboratory, says the intense noise is 80 to 100 decibels measured 60 feet away.)

The intense noise damages eardrums, driving away birds and all other animal life. But some source gave the cicada a tiny muscle, which automatically collapses his eardrum just before he “sounds off.” Scientists know how the muscle operates, but they do not know how it could have “evolved” in one springtime to allow one generation of cicadas to mate and to preserve the species, nor can they explain the inborn seventeen year almanac which the cicada carries with him underground.

Hugo McCord
Portland, OR.


Inside...
Page 1 - The Gospel of Salvation | Page 2 - Where In The Bible Will I Find...
Page 3 - Prison Report | Page 4 - Old Testament Studies | Page 5 - Is God Uncinstitutional? Part 2
Page 6 - Indwelling of the Holy Spirit, Part 2 | Page 7 - Christian Evidences | Page 8 - Thoughts On Salvation
Page 9 - The Christian Home | Page 10 - Continuations | Page 11 - The Children's Page
Page 12 - Announcements / Continuations

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