Veritas Equitas

I attended the Metropolitan Tabernacle this past Sunday. For perhaps only the second time in my life was I in a church that had a mix of ages, colors, ethnic backgrounds, etc that I think really will represent how Heaven will look.

The sermon was on Deuteronomy 32:1-4, “Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb. For I will proclaim the name of Jehovah: Ascribe ye greatness unto our God. The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.”

At the end of his long and varied life - 40 years of being raised as a prince in Egypt, 40 years as a shepherd, and 40 years as the earthly head of Israel - Moses had this to say: “I will proclaim the name of Jehovah: Ascribe ye greatness unto our God. The Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is He.”

After 120-plus years of walking the earth, Moses was still praising his God - THE God, the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the one true, living God.

His confidence even in the final moments of his life was that he would proclaim the name of God. In 120 years he could not look back and see anything more worthy of comment than that his God was truth and faithful.

I issue a challenge to any who call themselves ‘Christian’ - can you say today that as you look back over your life, God has been truth and faithful to you? Not in the abstract, but in the personal.

If you were to die today, would the last words on your lips be “I will proclaim the name of Jehovah: Ascribe ye greatness unto our God. The Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is He.”?

If not… why?

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GUILDERLAND, Albany County - Cindy Lee Myers, age 55, of Western Avenue, Guilderland, died suddenly at her residence Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.

Born in Liberty, N.Y., she had been a resident of the capital region for her entire life.

She worked for Albany County Department of Social Services and was the assistant director of the Food Stamp Program, since 1981.

Cindy was a graduate of University at Albany and received a Bachelor’s Degree in the Class of 1975. She was also a published author.

She was predeceased by her parents, Roger W. and Mildred (Neilson) Myers and a brother, Warren Myers.

Cindy is survived by her brother, Joseph N. (Loretta) Myers of Cohoes. Also survived by a niece, Joselynn Myers and a nephew, Warren (Mike) Myers.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a memorial service at 11 a.m. on Friday, at the Albany Baptist Church, 361 Krumkill Road, Slingerland, N.Y.

Friends may call in the Rockefeller Funeral Home, 165 Columbia Turnpike., Rensselaer, N.Y., Thursday, from 4 to 7 p.m.

Interment will be in Gansevoort Cemetery.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers, that memorial’s be sent to Livingston Manor Fire Department, Livingston Manor, NY 12758 in her memory.

I have just completed the color scheme updates to my main site, warrenmyers.com.

I have brightened the whole works up, and made it more in line with the look of the blog theme I am using.

Edna: It will be bold! Dramatic!
Bob: Yeah!
Edna: Heroic!
Bob: Yeah. Something classic, like, like Dynaguy. Oh, he had a great look! Oh, the cape and the boots…
Edna: [throws a wadded ball of paper at Bob's head] No capes!
Bob: Isn’t that my decision?
Edna: Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? Nice man, good with kids.
Bob: Listen, E…
Edna: November 15th of ‘58! All was well, another day saved, when… his cape snagged on a missile fin!
Bob: Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb…
Edna: Stratogale! April 23rd, ‘57! Cape caught in a jet turbine!
Bob: E, you can’t generalize about these things…
Edna: Metaman, express elevator! Dynaguy, snagged on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex!
[shouts]
Edna: No capes!

I’ve finished importing my old journal entries into the new CMS - you’ll notice I greatly trimmed-down from the total still visible at the old location: http://warrenmyers.com/archive.php.

My website has been due for an overhaul for quite a while.

I’m going to be shifting some all of my content from a manually-managed setup to a CMS. This is the first stage of that migration: I’m importing old blog/journal posts that I feel should be carried-over to the new look-and-feel. Please bear with me as these changes happen over the next several days.

This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.

Frances Helen Myers, 98, a former Greenwich resident, died Sunday, July 13, 2008, at the Pleasant Valley Nursing Facility in Argyle. Born Nov. 23, 1909, in Schenectady, she was the daughter of Joseph and Katherine Wilday McKinney. Frances was a member of the Centenary United Methodist Church in Greenwich. She enjoyed outdoor activities including hunting and fishing. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Ralph Myers who died in 1969, and a brother, Hermus McKinney. Survivors are a son, Ralph E. Myers of Greenwich; a daughter, Ruth Lesson of Grafton, Va.; a brother, Ralph McKinney of Granville; a sister, Viola Lemery of Kingsman, Ariz.; three grandchildren: Edward Lesson, Jarlyn Ballew, and Laurie Westerfield; six great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. A funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 17, 2008, at Flynn Bros., Inc. Funeral Home, 80 Main St., Greenwich, N.Y., with the Rev. Eileen Deming, pastor of Centenary United Church officiating. Interment will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Schuylerville, N.Y. The family suggests memorials in her name be made to Pleasant Valley Activities Fund, 4573 State Route 40, Argyle, NY 12809. Online remembrances can be sent to www.flynnbrosinc.com.

I Cor 9: 19-27: “For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”

I have a question to pose to any church, any pastor, any Christian: what are you saying about Christ, the Gospel, and your walk if you never change your practices?

Are you saying, “I’ve arrived, I don’t need to change”?

Are you saying, “I’m better than everyone else, therefore they need to catch up to me before I advance”?

Are you saying, “I don’t care about ‘advancing’, I’m satisfied with my progress”?

Or are you saying, “I am who I am, and I don’t have to change”?

I am not an advocate of change for the sake of change.

I am not an advocate of change if means compromising Truth.

I will advocate EVERY change that BETTERS myself towards God, and that brings more people to His Gospel.

What does it say about a pastor, church, or individual Christian if they refuse to change to society, when that change does not affect their walk with God? What does it say about a pastor, church, or individual Christian when they won’t listen to others who have Truth to convey, or who have received insights into God’s Holy Word that they haven’t yet?

Does it say that they are stubborn, and won’t hear what others have to say, won’t take the time to see if what they’re saying is out of line with the Bible, won’t come out of their ‘comfort zone’ because somebody else might know something they don’t?

Does it say that they’re staying with what they’ve become accustomed to that is in line with the Bible, but that they won’t move away from that ’safe zone’ because they’re afraid they might do something wrong in the process?

Or does it say that they are stagnating in their walk and no longer advancing along their Christian walk? That they’re happy enough with where they’ve gotten to; that they don’t need to get any further along their walk because they’re getting into heaven from where they are - and, after all, isn’t being “a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord” better than a thousand days elsewhere? After all, why get any further into God’s kingdom than I have to, because the world is fun? Why become a “choice servant of the Lord” if I can just be a servant?

The only belief system that must be right is that held by atheists.

It’s the only logical conclusion to draw from the available evidence: they are among the most vocal, most argumentative, most defensive, most worried group of people on the planet.

If I, a Christian, am wrong about the existence God, what have I lost? Time on Sundays, time reading the Bible, time trying to convert my friends… but only time. If a Muslim is wrong about the existence of Allah all he has lost is time. If the Jew, Hindu, animist, Mormon, etc are all wrong about the existence of any god they’ve only wasted time.

But if an atheist is wrong about the non-existence of any God, he’s in for a heap of hurt: eternal damnation, Hell, reincarnation as a rat, etc.

For the sake of the atheists in the world, I could pray there is no God. Of course, I don’t know who I’d pray to. But for the sake of those who believe there is no God - of any kind - I could hope they’re right, and that I’ve just been wasting thousands of hours of my life I could better spend on me.

I am convinced there is a God, though, so the only logical course of action I can take is to try convince others. After all, if I’m wrong, I just spent a bunch of time doing something that doesn’t matter.

But if I’m right…