Evolution Thoughts

What I Believe About Evolution and Christianity

1. I believe in the creation story in Genesis chapters 1 and 2.

2. I am certain the Hebrew word "yom" (day) when connected with a number

(ie; first day) means a literal 24 hour day. Because of this I full reject all the

"Christian evolution concepts" or theistic evolution.  Obviously there is no

way I can accept the fabricated stories of millions or billions of years that

it took for everything to evolve according to evolutionary hypothesis. They are

fully in conflict with the Genesis account in my "personal studied observation."

3. For those who say I can't prove God exists or created anything I must say that

from a scientific position I cannot. What the proponents of evolution, for the most

part, refuse to hear from me is that I have supernatural proof in my own life that

God not only exists, but he answers prayer in Jesus' name and does miracles.

I have seen and experienced the presence of God and/or his power through a

variety of supernatural experiences beginning with my own salvation experience

where God revealed himself to me in such a powerful way that it overwhelmed my

unbelief and skepticism and removed all doubt as to his existence and his power.

I have seen many people immediately healed, have seen my son immediately

healed in our home in answer to the prayer of my wife and I and I have personally

been instantly healed in answer to prayer in the name of Jesus Christ.

At various times in my life I have been involved individually or with others in

casting demons out of people and houses. The first encounter with demons

occurred at 518 Xanthus Street in Tulsa Oklahoma. It was at night as I was

preparing to go to sleep, and was the attack on my life. I was a Christian for a

very short time when it happened and am thankful that I was in a place where

people knew how to deal with demons. If God hadn't intervened I would have

died in that room. After my ordeal I returned to the room I was attacked in and

cast the demons out of the room in the name of Jesus Christ and it was over.

The second encounter was in Jacksonville, Florida during street evangelism.

The third occurrence was an evening chapel service on the campus of the Bible

college I attended and graduated from. A fourth happened when I was working

on the staff at Cincinnati Teen Challenge during a semester break from Bible

college. The demons in the young boy there spoke through him to the staff as

we were casting them out. It was a first time that I heard a demon speak and

I remember the chills running through my body at that time but I wasn't afraid.

I had one more encounter with a man at Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio.

He was possessed and kept cursing the Lord. I commanded him to leave the

square in the name of Jesus. At first he didn't but the second command in the

name of Jesus causes him to run off, and he never returned while I was there.

One thing that happened while I was with a traveling ministry for my first year

as a Christian was "seeing" food multiply in answer to the prayers of a young

girl who offered a simple prayer in Jesus' name. Of course, for unbelievers to

accept this would be ludicrous because there are many who call themselves

Christians who don't believe God does that kind of thing in this generation. It's

truly sad that unbelief of that kind exists in people who profess to believe that

God can transform a vile sinner into a lover of God but can't do simpler things.

Before anyone attacks me on this I want everyone to know that I have had

my own times of unbelief, and the cure I found is in getting closer to God. 

Once a person gets to know God intimately doubt becomes less of an occurrence.

There was one other incident that I want to share that I believe is a wonderful

show of God power and protection upon his people.  We set up our ministry

tent in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with permission on a piece of ground inside

the city. For some reason that I don't remember the city cut off our access to

water hoping to drive us out. Not to be deterred, the brothers in the ministry

dug a well on the grounds and we drank the water from that well. Before long

the city health department came to inspect the well. About 250 people in the

ministry, including children, drank from that well. The health department then

reported that the water was polluted and that everyone in camp should be sick

and even possibly dead. Amazingly, not one person was sick and nobody died

as we saw God fulfill his word to protect his people. There is more that I have

seen and experienced that more than prove God's existence and care for us.

4. Finally, I have seen the greatest miracle of all time over and over numerous

times in my life as a Christian. I have seen people from all walks of life turn to

Jesus Christ and put their faith in him, and I have watched as transformation in

their lives takes place and continues to this day.  I have seen all seven of my

own children, of their own volition, choose to repent of their sins and believe in

the atonement of the blood of Jesus Christ for their own lives.  I personally was

a vulgar-mouthed, drug dealing hippie with no interest in God, living for the next

party, the next high or the next woman and with no thoughts of where I would go

after I died. I did what this generation is being increasingly taught to do; "Live

for the moment!"  I cursed God every day all day long and thought nothing of it.

It took a trip to prison that gave me time to be free of drugs and alcohol long

enough to consider where my life was headed for the first time in many years.

I came to Christ needy and humbled by my own wickedness and he met me in

a tent in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on February 19, 1974 around ten at night

to cleanse me of my many sins against him and set me free to love him who had

died for me in spite of my evil heart and life.

If you read this far, then you obviously are a patient and considerate person.

I can promise you that if you go to God with your sins and tell him in your own

words you are sorry for them and need his forgiveness that he will grant your

request and you will never be the same again! For a more detailed look at my

story please examine the page below about my own life.  I pray that my

God will bring you into our family and you will live to love and serve him not in

this life only but throughout the vast ages of eternity. God bless you!