Victory Blog

PROVISION & OPPORTUNITIES

We are grateful to be back home after a wonderful time in Virginia!  We were richly blessed to serve in a revival meeting at Victory Baptist Church in Nokesville, VA where Clinton Owens has served for 30 years or more!  This church has been a great blessing to us each time we’ve been there, and they now have a special endeavor to use 140 acres of prime property for the Creator!  We are looking forward with great anticipation to see what the LORD is going to do there!

After the meeting at Victory, we traveled to Virginia Beach to stay with Heather’s folks for a few days.  When we arrived, we received an envelope with a check in it for a very large sum of money. A friend from New Jersey indicated a desire to help us get out of debt and we are extremely excited!  We truly are grateful to the LORD for His bountiful provision!  What an encouragement this was after the election!

While in Virginia Beach, we were blessed to serve at Diamond Springs Baptist where Warren Skinner is pastor.  We set up our book table and Jeff spoke in a combined Sunday school class and in the evening service.  The following Wednesday night, we were privileged to promote our creation conference at a supporting church, Sweethaven Baptist Church in Portsmouth where Cary Borkert is pastor.  Over the next two days we were blessed to serve at the Old Dominion Association of Christian Schools convention under the direction of Dan Zacharias, a former college-mate of Jeff’s.  It was a real blessing also to hear Evangelist Rich Tozour, also a former college-mate!

After we returned to Hickory, we served at Temple Baptist in Lenoir (Joel Bixler) on a Sunday night, at Calvary Baptist Tabernacle in Salisbury (Steve Holshouser) yesterday morning, and at Eastside Baptist in Newton (Don Sigmon) where Jeff’s second cousin is pastor!  Since a good group of young people were in attendance, Jeff switched from his “Cause of Creation” message to part one of “Dinosaurs & the Design of God.”  It was SUCH a blessing to see Jeff’s brother, Randy, in attendance!  This was only the second time he has ever been to hear Jeff speak.

DR. DAWKINS, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!

This past Saturday evening, we were able to get together at a friend’s home and watch the movie, “Expelled:  No Intelligence Allowed.“  We had heard a lot about this movie, but what an eye-opener it was as evolutionists and atheists such as the infamous Dr. Richard Dawkins (author of The God Delusion) from Oxfrd University reveal that they think creationists and Intelligent Design (ID) proponents are “ignorant” or even “intellectual terrorists”!  Though Dawkins repudiates “intelligent design,” in an interview he gave credence to the idea that an intelligence from outer space could have planted life on earth!  Amazing!

The analogy of the Berlin wall clearly illustrates the division that exists between creation and evolution!  Freedom of scientific inquiry exists, but ONLY on one side of the “wall”!  As video clips showed even children chipping away at the Berlin wall, I realized that ANY effort with creationism, great or small, is analogous to chipping away at the “great wall” that exists between true science and an evolutionary world view.  Sadly, this wall is growing thicker each day as so-called clergy sign on to macro-evolution as a “fact of science.”  Clearly, there must be a greater effort among God’s people to “tear down this wall”!  May God help us to get busy “casting down imaginations that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God…” (Colossians 10:5).

CREATION & THANKSGIVING

³ O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. ⁴ To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever. ⁵ To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever. ⁶ To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever. ⁷ To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: ⁸ The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever: ⁹ The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.   (Psalm 136:3-9)

Sadly, this special time of year is so often a brief “blip” in the holiday season between “Halloween” and Christmas.  Perhaps this is because there isn’t much money to be made when people are thankful for what they have.  Maybe it is because Americans are reminded more about their lowly beginnings, and this causes us to be more inclined to cherish people more than things.  Nevertheless, the psalmist was truly thankful to the Creator for His great works in creation.  Last Februrary, we learned that the gravitational pull of the massive planet Jupiter may very well detract meteorites from hitting the earth!  I guess we should be thankful for God’s creation!!

May each of you truly have a blessed Thanksgiving Day with family, friends, food, and perhaps football:!

Jeff & Heather Setzer
Creation Family Ministries
1225 29th Ave. Dr. NE; Hickory, NC 28601