breathless

I love cars. I love driving cars. I love looking at cars. I love reading about cars. I love cars. It's true.

A big high five to the first person who correctly identifies this car. It's just being introduced into the United States by a company that hasn't had a US presence since 1995. I think it's beautiful. Opinions? What's your "most beautiful car ever"?

What is man that you are mindful of him?

While really incomprehensible, try to grasp something of the absolute power of Christ. He created everything (Hebrews 1:1-3). Some of the below is from the Moody video, "The Milky Way and Beyond," and some from another source:
* In one second, our sun emits more energy than man has been able to create since Adam and Eve.
* Our sun is only an average-size star. One star, the Pistol Star, produces 1 million times the energy of the sun and has 100 times its mass.
* Our sun and entire solar system are just a pinpoint, or small speck, in our Milky Way galaxy.
* Quasars, at the extreme edge of the known universe, some 1,000 times brighter than our Milky Way galaxy, emit as much energy every second as our sun does in 10 million years.
* There are perhaps 200 billion stars just in our galaxy.
* If our galaxy were the size of the North American continent, our solar system would only be the size of a tea cup.
* While estimates continue to rise, our galaxy is just one of more than 125 billion galaxies in the universe, many of which are comprised of 200 billion or more stars.
* Astronomers say that the total number of stars in space could equal or surpass the total number of grains of sand on all the seashores of the world, and in most cases they are separated by trillions of miles.
Through the ancient prophet Isaiah, God said, "My own hands stretched out the heavens" (Isaiah 45:12, NIV).
The psalmist pondered the wonders of creation and asked God, "What is man that you are mindful of him?" (Psalm 8:4, NIV).
The Bible also reveals, "For by him (Christ) all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together (Colossians 1:16-17, NIV).
And yet, with incomprehensible love, the Mighty Creator visited this pinpoint of a planet, in a pinpoint of a solar system, in a pinpoint of a galaxy, in the vastness of the universe. He was conceived in a virgin's womb, lived a perfect life, and died on a bloody Roman cross, just because He loves you, and me. He rose from the dead, ascended into heaven and before he left, He promised not only to prepare a place for us, but that He would return to earth. In the meantime, He dwells within every believer (Colossians 1:25-27).
Only He is worthy of our worship and praise.

War...What is it good for?

I just read a very thought provoking and emotional article on war. Several soldiers, who had returned from Iraq, were interviewed. Unfortunately it's too graphic to post here. If you'd like to read it, please email me lrknapp at gmail dot com. I'll send you the link. I would highly recommend reading it.

enmity

So much pain and suffering.

Genesis 17:18-21And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! 19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.Decisions have consequences. While our decisions may not influence nations for thousands of years, our decisions will have some influence. May we look to God's Word for our guiding principals as we strive for holy living through Christ.

Nuclear?

An interesting argument for nuclear energy.

So, what did you do with your life?

Well, for starters I saved about a billion people worldwide.

I think I'd like to meet that man.

G-Cans Project

These are photos of Tokyo's massive underground flood control system. It consists of five underground containment silos that are over 213 feet tall and 104 feet in diameter, connected by almost 4 miles of tunnels buried 164 feet below the ground. There's also a large underground water tank that's 83 feet tall, 581 feet long, and 256 feet wide! The roof of this massive chamber is supported by 59 massive pillars.

Water is pumped from these chambers into the harbor via two turbine pumps powered by the same jet engines on the 737. These engines generate 14,000 hp each and can move 200 TONS of water per SECOND!! That's almost 48,000 gallons of water per SECOND! That means in the time it takes you to read this sentence those pumps could've moved over 100,000 gallons of water! That is simply incredible. Here are the photos in no particular order.

Have YOU heard?

Norman Borlaug We should know this man.