July 29th, 2010

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Boy have we been busy. Just launched our new website GodlyDesktop.com which is a fun site for me because it has nothing to do with news but with graphics, images and code and using them for God which I love to do in a creative way. So it’s a refreshing change…

My wife Kris is doing a lot of the desktops on there now, in fact i believe all of them on there right now are hers. We are waiting for some to submit some.

We are working on a exciting new feature I just completed (still working on security checks, not my strong point in php) it’s called “Build Your Own Desktop” and it’s where you can pick a font, text size, what background, etc and make your own desktop wallpaper on the fly. Fun stuff and is a real joy coding it from the ground up. Should you be a PHP coder and know a wee bit about security and ImageMagick hit me up I’d love input.

Our next project after GodlyDesktop.com is ChristTube where it will be kind of a youtube clone but with a few nice options. I’m not sure how feasible this will be and if you have a server and some bandwidth and would like to be apart of it hit me up we have some exciting ideas we want to try and bring to ChristTube.org

Little birdie told me Jack Heckathorne is working on a new book, he’s co-authoring this one… so I heard… Sorry can’t give up the details just yet. 

One other note, I’m also working on what will be GJCN 4.0 which is really a redesign of the main content page of GJCN homepage. Instead of the formal blog layout we are going with a more newsie type layout and where we can feature a lot more of GJCN commentary. It’s more of a focus on the commentary and a little less on news, however the news will be updated far more often.

don’t forget to bookmark my new site http://www.ChristReport.com and check out the Beta of  ChristTube.org and GodlyDesktop.com

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"No Idea?" I have studied evolution for 47 years, how long have you studied it? How many scientific papers have you written or even read? How much do you really know about God?. On what scientific basis to you know that God is imaginary? You don’t know. That is an assumption based on finite knowledge. You believe in an ever changing and confused theory which even many evolutionists don’t believe anymore but push the idea because they don’t want to abandon evolution. If they did, then the only other alternative would be creation and oh my we couldn’t have that could we?

Evolution is tantamount to atheism. Are you an atheist? Are you an evolutionist? How could anyone believe that everything happened naturally and believe God created all things?

Which"evolution" are you talking about anyway? Macro or micro? Micro evolution is indeed science, that is change within the kind. For example, two different type dogs can reproduce and produce a different type of dog, but this is a loss of information in the DNA. A long haired dog mates with a short haired dog and you get a medium haired dog. The off spring has lost the genetic information for long hair. This shouldn’t even be called "evolution" because the word evolution means to go from a lower form to a higher form and this isn’t the case here.

Macro evolution (evolving from one type of animal to another higher form) on the other hand would require adding information to DNA. This has never been observed. Positive mutations have never been observed and are only assumed.  There is no means to add information to DNA therefore, animals cannot evolve to a new higher animal. So, macro evolution is not science and it is not even a valid scientific theory because it is not observable, testable or falsifiable  which is science’s own standard for any scientific theory. Evolutionists "believe" macro evolution happens and they make up stories and drawings etc, regardless of the fact that they have not one iota of scientific evidence for it and so they, like the atheists, use faith in their reasoning, and a lot of it all the way through the so called evolutionary process.

By the way, "evolutionary process" is an oxymoron. Evolution is randomness with no intelligence involved and process is a well thought plan (with intelligence) to achieved a desired product.

The Bible says that animals were created in "kinds" and that they reproduce after their kind. What do we see in the world today? All animals in kinds reproducing after their own kind. If you try to artificially breed one kind of animal with another kind the off spring, if it lives, is always sterile and could not reproduce. Mules are often bred from donkeys and horses which are closely related and mules are always sterile. So, in the wild all animals stay in their kind.

Atheists use evolution to try and legitimize their own beliefs that there is no God.

Thanks for your comment,
Jack Heckathorne

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Go to http://www.stumbleupon.com/sign_up.php?pre2=nav_join and sign up. It’s a simple and easy form.

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Now this part is important because you want to install the toolbar so you always have it.
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Now let’s change a few settings. You can get to this page at stumbleupon.com then
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the last button to the right on the SU toolbar is “Tools –> Profile Preferences” will
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On this page you can upload a profile picture, change some settings and at the bottom
left you can select if you want adult sites or not. Just select don’t show adult sites
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Once your done here, now click the “Manage Interests” link on the right (big red circle
on the right in the image) (now read step five)

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Here is the greatest thing about SU (StumbleUpon.com). You can select what categories
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Step Six:

Now this is the final step in this GJCN How-To and is the most exciting! Each and every
one of you have great power with SU tool bar. You can go to any page on GJCN.org
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When you click the “thumbs up / I like it” button on a page that hasn’t been clicked on yet
you will submit it to stumbleupon.com, this is neat because you’ll be the first to submit
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What does this do? How does this help?

This helps drive massive amounts of traffic to GJCN. Don’t stop on just one page,
click the thumbs up on any page on GJCN. Any of the commentary, news stories whatever
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Just a few of us, (Jack, Me my wife) using this made a huge impact on GJCN.org’s traffic
If we all use it to do this we will be getting GJCN out there in the world where otherwise
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we have and I think it’s important to use it. If you can not donate to GJCN this is a very
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I hope this GJCN How-To is helpful. If you have any questions feel free to post a comment or
email me directly. sysop@gjcn.org

God Bless

By: Brian Heckathorne “Sysop” of GJCN.org

Email Contact Info

Jack Heckathorne – Jack.H@GJCN.org
Commentary comments and questions

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Website questions and comments

I JUST READ YOUR ARTICLE AND I WANT TO BE IN THE PATH OF CHRIST I’M A SINNER BUT I WANT TO EXCEPT GOD AS MY SAVIOR WHAT SHOULD I DO ? PLEASE WRITE BACK AND YOUR MESSAGE OPEN MY EYES

THANK YOU

IVREN
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Ivren,

To accept Christ as your savior simply say a prayer to God the father and tell him that you believe in Jesus Christ and want him as your savior. The Bible says that if we believe in our heart the Lord Jesus and confess with our mouth that God has raised him from the dead you will be saved. We must try to avoid sin but if we do happen to sin after we are saved then we should confess our sins to God. (1 John 1:9) and he will forgive us. This means to name each sin to him not simply to ask for forgiveness. This will allow your life to be controlled by God the Holy Spirit and He will lead you to live the right kind of life.

To be saved it is not what we do that counts it’s what we believe. Acts 16:31 says “Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.”

Salvation is a decision that you make. You choose weather or not you want to be saved because we all have a free will to choose for or against God. You said that you are a sinner. We all are but when we believe in Christ our sins are forgiven so that God can accept us into heaven.

I would suggest that you read out commentaries on “The Gospel of Jesus Christ” “Fear vs. faith” and “Can you lose your salvation”
If you have further questions please write to me jack@gjcn.org

Regards,
Jack Heckathorne GJCN

Hello. Was looking under “Christ confirmed in you” and found your site.
Read your amazing comments on “Can you lose your salvation”  and it was truly quite eye opening. I thank you for your words of hope and encouragement on the facts of what the Bible says, and what it DOESN’T say!!!!

Thanks a lot. Lord Bless.
Philly

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Hello,

Thank you for your kind comments. It’s always encouraging to hear from people who appreciate the truth of the Bible.

So many people try to make the Bible say what they already believe rather than believing what the Bible says. We have a number of commentaries on various Bible subjects and some new ones coming out soon so keep reading.

“Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

Best Regards,
Jack Heckathorne GJCN
Houston, Texas

Dear Sir,

After having read your site I like to state that my life as a Christian and an entrepreneur is like a salmon, it’s a long tough way, always going upstream, with steep waterfalls and hungry bears. I often think I have to rely on my own strength. I keep on swimming, even when I should have taken a rest. The responsibility of being an entrepreneur with 10 employees is a heavy load. As a result some waterfalls depress and when I am tired some bears hit me (but so far have not eaten me). Sometimes they hit me so hard that I fall down few meters. Then at that place I have to rest. Many fish come downstream and invite me to go down with them.

It is tempting, they swim so easily. Still, so far, all times, I remain where I am. Them, gradually I recover and once I am fully healed I am a strong healthy salmon, who does what a healthy salmon has to do… go up, back to the source of his life.

Yours sincerely,
Karel ****** – The Netherlands

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From: “Jack Heckathorne” <jack@gjcn.org>
Subject: commentary question

Well said and I agree. Thank you for visiting our site and feel free to write anytime.

Regards
Jack Heckathorne
GJCN.org

In January my father passed away at the young age of 51. I had been away from the church for about 3-4 years. I grew up believing in Christ, as my savior, at the age of 10 I accepted his salvation, and was born again. When I was 17 or 18 I walked away from Christ, and tried to not look back. God never let me go. He sent person after person into my life to get me to come home. I refused, till January, when he took my dad home to be with him. I’ve struggled over the past months with the hopes of finding a church. I finally found a home at Kalamazoo Valley Family Church. God has been leading me back into his arms day by day.

Recently my best friend of 5 years and I had a VERY long debate. She believes you can loose your salvation. Now this went against everything I believed or was ever taught. But she had some verses to back it up. I’m still like a baby in my faith, still growing in Christ and his word. I had no verses to repeat to her, except, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Since that discussion I have been looking to God to lead me where he would. I have talked to many strong Christians, and it seemed to be half and half. I was unsure, had I had been taught the right thing all my life?

Today I searched “ask jeeves“ and found your site. The words you wrote spoke to me and confirmed what I thought my heart was saying. Satan is trying to cast doubt in my heart. Your words were so reassuring and I could feel Christ telling me “It’s all right, I’m here forever.” As I read further and further the stronger the urge to cry became. I sit here writing you this to thank you for listening to your Lord. To thank you for your faith in Christ. Thank you for you willingness to tell.

Your sister in Christ,
Becky ******
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From: “Jack Heckathorne” <jack@gjcn.org>
Subject: commentary question

Dear Becky,

Thank you so much for your wonderful letter and your kind words. Like you, I had a similar life. I was away from God for a time. God in his grace will allow something to come into our lives to bring us back to him. It may be discipline or the death of a loved one or the loss of something else dear to us. He deals with us as his children who have gone astray. That is why the Bible uses the human example of the family. Once you are born into a family you can never get out of it. You can sin and even renounce your parents but you will always be their child. The same is true with God. Once you are born into Gods family you become Gods property and no matter what you do you can’t get out even if you want to. This is because of Gods grace. If we stray from God he will do what is necessary to get us back. However it is still our decision. This is what the Prodigal son parable is about. He started off as a son, went astray, and returned as a son. His father always loved him and never renounced him.

I have studied the verses that people use to try and prove that you can lose your salvation. Someday I plan on writing an article on them because the verses they use are nearly always speaking about either loss of rewards in heaven, the sin unto death on earth or are taken out of context. The sin unto death is when a person chooses to live his whole life in sin and doesn’t confess it to God. He is still saved but dies a very horrible death and loses his rewards in Heaven.

Jesus said in John 6:37 quoted in a more accurate translation from the Greek: “All believers that God the Father gives to me shall come to me and he that comes to me I will under no circumstances cast out”

To know the truth all you have to do is seek the truth and God will lead you to it.

Please read our commentary on “Fear vs. Faith” if you haven’t already.

Best regards
Jack Heckathorne
GJCN

PS We have a package of very good Bible study books which we do not advertise available to you free of charge and postage paid if you would like to have them. All you need to do is furnish a mailing address by return email to me.

From: Peter ******** [mailto:********@charter.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:35 AM
To: jack@gjcn.org
Subject: Commentary Comment/Question

Thank you for your thoughts on prayer, any study on the subject of prayer is always welcome as long as it is based on Scripture-yours was. There is only one slight quibble

I have, and that is on the subject of God not hearing the prayers of unbelievers. As a hell-bound young man, God saved my life on several occasions, got me out of the traps of alcoholism and drug addiction. I did not know Jesus, the Father, or the Holy Spirit, but did have enough sense to cry out, “If You exist please help me.” He did help me many times and it wasn’t a coincidence or by happenstance. As Jesus spoke of the Pharisee and the sinner in the temple, you will notice that it was the sinner who received grace, not the one who thought he knew God.

One of the traps that Christians fall into is self-righteous-ness, that has happened to me. We need to be careful not to limit God’s mercy and grace, because it always over-rides His justice.

Respectfully yours, Peter ********, Cumberland, Md.

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From: “Jack Heckathorne” <jack@gjcn.org>
Subject: commentary question

I have had other people tell me the same thing as you have about answering the prayer of an unbeliever. However, I can find no scripture to support it. I do believe that God with his foreknowledge will preserve the unbeliever until such time as he believes and at their request, bring him to the knowledge of Christ. This is different than the believer’s prayer. “If ye abide in me (believers only) and my words abide in you, you may ask whatsoever ye will and I will do it”.

One other point is that God does indeed have mercy and grace but he will not compromise his justice or any other of his attributes for that matter. The wonderful thing about his plan for mankind is that He found a way to have mercy on the whole human race and provide a way of salvation without compromise but only those who believe will be saved so God will preserve those who he knows will believe. I don’t believe for a moment that God will hear the prayers of an atheist or a Muslim for example who actively reject Christ. Thanks for your comment.

Best Regards,
Jack Heckathorne GJCN

From: Dark Rein [mailto:******@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:37 AM
To: jack@gjcn.org
Subject: Commentary Comment/Question

I read the commentary about the ice age good research but…Noah sent a raven out first and Dinosaurs were not mentioned. Gen 6:4 “And there were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that……..”

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From: “Jack Heckathorne” <jack@gjcn.org>
Subject: RE: commentary question

Dinosaurs were not mentioned because the word dinosaur wasn’t invented until the 1800’s when the giant bones were first discovered by a dentist. However, dogs weren’t mentioned, neither were horses or monkeys or many animals. So, what does that prove? The average size of a dinosaur was about the size of a sheep and Noah would have taken young ones anyway so they could reproduce. Since they come from eggs even the largest dinosaurs were once very small and being a reptile, as all reptiles do, they grow all of their life. So there is no reason why they could not have been on the ark.

I have always found it interesting that we know the American Indians drew very accurate pictures of dinosaurs on cave walls in the 1500’s and no one knew what they were until the discovery of the bones in 1801.

So, how could the Indians have known what they looked like 300 years prior to the discovery unless they had seen live ones? Many people believe that the ocean dwelling plesiosaur still lives. I have a photo of a dead one which was pulled up by a Japanese fishing boat in the 1970’s

The book of Job mentions something called a behemoth that lived in the fens (swamp) and had bones like iron and a powerful tail like a cedar tree. Whatever it was it wasn’t an elephant or a hippo because they have very small tails.

Marco Polo after a visit to china reported that the emperor had dragons pulling wagons. Why would he say that unless it was true? Dragons of course look amazingly like dinosaurs and China is even now known as the Land of the dragon. Perhaps dinosaurs were call dragons at that time.

There are many more examples of Dinosaurs existing with man. The Inca stones, thousands of smooth basketball size rocks were dug up a thousand years ago in Peru which had paintings of many animals on them including dinosaurs. One even had a man riding on one.

Many sea monsters were reported in the days of sailing ships describing an animal with a long neck. We don’t see them today because ships make too much noise and probably scare them away and there are probably less of them. Two were found dead on a beach in the early 1900’s and photos were taken.

In Texas human footprints in rock were found with dinosaur footprints. In the same area and rock human footprints measuring 22” long were found.

Evolutionists say dinosaurs became extinct some 60 some million years ago because they are found in a certain type of rock but when human fossils are found in the same type rock they are dated in the thousands of years.

The giants in Genesis 6-4 were produced by the sons of God (demons) taking human wives and creating a super race of men to control the world. Satan always wants to control the world. This is likely why God had to destroy the human race because man had become so corrupt. Adolph Hitler tried the same thing with his super race and at the same time he tried to destroy the inferior people such as Jews and Christians and by so doing, he thought, he would be able to control the world. Others throughout history have done similar things in order to control the world. The antichrist will try the same thing in the tribulation and once again God will have to intervene as he did with the flood.

Thanks for your comment. We enjoy hearing from you.

Best Regards
Jack Heckathorne GJCN.org