Month: July 2026

Grandma and I were asking Levi about his week at CIY, and he agreed to take us through each day’s teaching and activities. When asked about the most significant thing he learned, he took us to the armor of God. And the point that really caught his attention was that the belt of truth was the most important piece of armor, because if it’s missing, the rest of the armor just falls off.

That was a new thought to him, and to me, but it’s true. If we’re not grounded in the truth, we don’t have a chance when facing the enemy. Our saving faith, our righteousness, our defensive weapons, and our message are all useless unless they’re securely wrapped in the truth. The absolute truth, revealed in the one who is the way, the truth and the life.

Like Pilate, who asked “What is truth?”, our society doesn’t recognize the truth when it’s standing in front of it, and is all around it. In the spiritual world, and in the physical world.

We must admit that it is difficult to see truth in the unseen world. Reason and serious thought about life can lead us in the right direction, but absolute spiritual truth must be revealed. And fortunately, it has been.

Not only did God inspire the Scriptures, the Living Word took on flesh and dwelt among us. And as Jesus told Thomas after being told to put his hand into His side, “Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”

We may not be able to actually see spiritual truth with physical eyes, but we can see physical truth. If preconceived prejudices against the supernatural are removed, intelligent design can be seen everywhere. And we know the Intelligent Designer, because He revealed Himself.

The sad thing is that we live in a world that has dismissed God. And according to Chesterton, “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing anything.”

When spiritual truth is denigrated even obvious physical truth can be blatantly denied, as is evidenced by the current gender confusion.

God Bless, Rick

“I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;” The psalmist said it, but how often do we think about it? When was the last time you thought about how wonderfully your knee was designed? I have to admit I didn’t really think about it until it started talking back at me, and in February it told me to limp into the Ortho Walk-in Clinic.

I was diagnosed with a tight IT band, the ligament that runs along the side of the thigh, and told that I needed physical therapy. After five weeks of stretching and contorting, my knee was screaming at me.

My chiropractor, who we all know and love, kept the rest of me in good shape, but my primary doctor sent me to a knee doctor. He said he’d never seen a knee problem present itself the way mine did. He took more X-rays and said he could try some knee injections. The cortisone helped for a couple of days, but the chicken fat didn’t help at all.

It was then decided we should look into the possibility of a blood clot and get an MRI of my lumbar region. No clot was found, but the ultrasound did spot a cyst of some type, and all the MRI discovered was expected age-related osteoarthritis.

Last week I had an MRI of my knee, and it revealed both of the meniscuses were torn, a couple of the connecting ligaments had degenerated, and a piece of something was lodged in the bend of my knee. A total knee replacement has been suggested as a possible fix, but I’m going to get a second opinion.

Now back to how wonderfully our knees have been made. Those who believe our bodies were designed through a process of unguided evolution often think we can do better. But an award winning bioengineer said his Intelligent Design perspective led him to believe the human knee featured an advanced linkage design that led him to spend twenty-five years researching and developing bio-inspired knees for robotics.

Looks like the Intelligent Designer knew what He was doing.

God Bless, Rick