Time To Sell Your Property In Tonga Before It's Too Late

by Chuck Ness

Considering the closeness the island of Tonga is to the active volcano, "Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai", I suggest anyone who lives in Tonga to truly consider selling their property and flee the island. Even if they stay, at least sell your property while you still can. I say this because all evidence is pointing to an eruption that, even if it is not as powerful as Krakatoa was in 1883, it will still be powerful enough to wipe out the islands which is only 30 miles away. Now even if the volcano does not completely destroy it, then ensuing tsunami will. Does anyone remember what the tsunami did to Tohuku Japan in 2011?

Tohuku before Tsunami on left and Tohuku engulfed in water from Tsunami on the right

As for my information on the reaction of sea water and volcano magma interacting, I barrow this excerpt from what a fellow FReeper, texas booster, posted at FreeRepublic.

When magma enters the water rapidly, any steam layers are quickly disrupted, bringing hot magma in direct contact with cold water.

Volcano researchers call this “fuel-coolant interaction” and it is akin to weapons-grade chemical explosions. Extremely violent blasts tear the magma apart. A chain reaction begins, with new magma fragments exposing fresh hot interior surfaces to water, and the explosions repeat, ultimately jetting out volcanic particles and causing blasts with supersonic speeds.

Letter To Bangladesh Ministry Volunteers Meeting

A letter I sent to my Bangladesh Ministry Volunteers. It is long, but it is the first letter I have written to the volunteers and those who have been told about me and continually pray for me. My ministry now has well over 5000 total students and volunteers who are being educated on a weekly basis in over 20 towns of Bangladesh by outlines I prepare in their language on the Scriptures.

My brothers and sister this is your brother in Christ, Chuck Ness.

I am but a partner in your ministry, who was once a sinner with many evil things credited to my fallen human past. Yet I now count myself blessed, for I have been redeemed by the blood of Christ who promises me eternal life. I write to let you know I am with you in spirit, and I pray for you daily, and even hourly at times. I write to you as a fellow warrior for Christ Jesus who fights continually for men's souls.

Satan is presently doing everything in his power to lure good decent people into a life of sin. A life where righteousness is not present, but rather a life where evil prevails over good. I humbly ask the LORD Jesus to send the Holy Spirit to strengthen your faith, and to bring to your knowledge the truth that will endure in your heart and mind throughout the days you live in this World. A World Peter tells us will one day melt away;

Ruth 1:1-5 Introduction

“Leaving God's Blessing's Behind”

An Introduction Outline For Ruth

Ruth 1:1-5

 

The book of Ruth is a beautiful love story of a woman who left home and country to follow a woman she loved dearly. Ruth was a widow, who loved her mother-in-law so much she told her,

“Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God.
Ruth 1:16

It is only one of two books named after a woman, and the only one named after a Gentile. A Gentile who would become a Hebrew, and be placed in the genealogy of her greatest descendent, Jesus Christ. Ruth is true story that gives us a powerful lesson in redemption. A lesson that points to the love of GOD for HIS creation. A love so powerful that HE would give HIS only begotten SON so that we may all have everlasting life.

The Scarred Woman

by Chuck Ness

One day two women who lost contact 15 years earlier met on social media. This reunion would forever change the life of a teenage girl. One woman was a missionary, the other a single mother raising a teen daughter. The mother of the teen invited her long lost friend to come and visit. Knowing she had a few weeks before she would embark upon another missionary journey, the woman accepted her friend's offer.

Indianapolis is a long way from San Diego, but the trip would be good for both women to visit and go over old times. When the missionary arrived, she met her friend's teen daughter, whom she had not seen since the girl was but a toddler. The girl grew into a very beautiful young lady who was a popular cheerleader at her school. She was the type of girl who had always been part of the popular crowd, with more friends than she could count. However, while her mother was raising her to be a Christian, her heart was never truly in it as much as it was in the World.

The Fallen Perspective of Man Compared To God

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Chuck Ness

As someone who has benefited from Mark Atterson's Biblical knowledge, I felt it an honor to write a review on my friends book. He spent some years as a teen in the Jehovah Witness church, but found Christ and left the cult many years ago. Mark's understanding of the way cults begin and how they misinterpret Scripture to Satan's benefit, proves he has the credentials needed to recognize how the perspective of fallen man throughout history have twisted the truth of God's Word.

From Genesis to Revelation Mark offers some examples of how man looks at things from our own human fleshly perspective when making decisions. Instead of trusting upon the Lord God with all our heart, mind, and soul, we often times lean upon our own understanding. When men refuse to go to GOD for understanding, the results can often times lead to the creation of cults. Through the years these errors of human understanding have led to billions of souls now spending an eternal existence were the worm never turns and the fire is never quenched.

A Type Of The Law

Boaz discussing Ruth and her future with nearest unnamed kin

by Chuck Ness

As I peruse through my notes in my preperation to make outlines for the Book of Ruth, I was struck by a thought that makes me again put forth an idea. We are told that the fear of God is the beginning of all wisdom and knowledge, and in James 3:1 we are told that those who teach will be held to a higher standard. Well, I always fear being wrong lest I condemn myself by misleading others.

So, my theory would be that the unnamed Kinsman could also be a symbol of the Law of Moses. Allow me to elaborate.

Just as God handed down the Law to Moses, who in turn gave it to the people. It was actually given so that they could see what sin was. Paul tells us in Romans 3:20 “Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” So the Law came first to show us what sin is, and thus we realize we are sinners, as Paul wrote in Romans 7:7 “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."

Leah, God's Choice?

by Chuck Ness

We are told by the world that if we have good looks, great qualifications, special talents, good experience, practice good wisdom, and if we work hard, then we will always come out on top by winning life’s race by getting the jobs we desire and one day we will live to a ripe old age. Yet we read in Ecclesiastes 9:11, that “The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong…”

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

102 Years Ago Today: The First Religious Broadcast Message

by Chuck Ness

Today in 1921, just two months to the day after the first public radio broadcasts began on November 2, 1920, the first religious service in the history of broadcasting was aired on KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Westinghouse decided to test their ability to do a broadcast that was not initiated from their radio studio. Because they had an engineer who was a member of the choir at Pittsburgh's Calvary Episcopal Church, they decided to make the arrangements with his church.

Interestingly, the senior pastor, Rev. Edwin Van Ettin, was leery of the new medium, so the first sermon  broadcast over the air was delivered by one of the assistant clergy, Pastor Lewis B. Whittemore. The congregation did not know that the two radio-equipment technicians were not Episcopalian. One was Jewish and the other Catholic, but in order to keep from distracting the congregation, they were outfitted with choir robes. Eventually, the senior pastor overcame his reluctance and became the regular speaker, and the church would go onto give regular weekly broadcasts until 1962.

No where else in the world has religious broadcasting taken hold as it has in the United States. Like all new things, for years radio was viewed by many ministers as either a frivolity of wasted money or just outright evil. But not all were turned off by the new medium, and radio would eventually be so dominated by religious programming that the government stepped in to limit the number radio stations that were allowed to broadcast religious content.Today, radio is so powerful in reaching people for Christ that people who were once unreachable because their government outlawed Christianity are now able to hear the gospel of Christ. Radio, like Christ, knows no walls or fences.

The man credited with inventing radio, Guglielmo Marconi, gazed at the distant horizon one day and thought how the human mind could bridge any distance. He even envisioned that, one day, God's word would reach those in need of salvation. That vision is what encouraged Marconi to believe that Hertzian waves might be able to overcome the obstacle of distance. It is said that that vision is what started him on his experiments. Today, thanks to thousands of other inventors and broadcasters, God's word reaches the farthest corners of the earth in hundreds of languages by radio.

It has now been 90 years since that first radio broadcast on January 2, 1921. The anniversary just happens to also fall on a Sunday as did the original broadcast. The Rector will be doing an interview on the air with Rob Pratte of KDKA Radio AM 1020 on the dial, concerning the Anniversary and the history of Calvary. Rob Pratte's program runs 5 to 7 a.m., EST, each Sunday morning.

As an aside, Rob Pratte just happens to be one of the biggest miniature RR enthusiasts and promoters in the country. You really should check out the online Photo Album he has. You can also follow this link if you want to check out a video filmed by MartyE Productions of https://onevike.blogspot.com/2021/11/awsome-video-of-rob-prattes-famous.html. Both Rob's photo Album and video are truly amazing. I promise you will not be disappointed.