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I've been going over and over in my mind how foolish it is that people can actually believe there is no God. I just can't comprehend the logic behind it. I think of the complexity of say..... an iPod. How in the world do you fit 160 GB of music and video into a device that is 2.4" wide, 4.1" tall and .53" thick?! You wanna know how?! First you spend MILLIONS of dollars on engineers and developers and designers who each one of them have spent years and years and thousands of thousands of dollars going to school to learn how to do their skill and you get all of them together and get them to spend years and years working together and working long hours coming up with brilliant ideas to make this tiny device called and iPod.

So here's my next question. How many years would it take and what are the chances that an iPod that is 2.4" wide, 4.1" tall and .53" thick and holds 160 GB of music and video would ever come into existence on it's own without any human intelligence or interference?

What if we gave it as much time as you wanted to? Say a million years for it to happen. No, a billion! What are the chances? What are they?

Zilch. Nada. Not gonna happen. Ever! No matter how much time you gave it. You could take an unassembled ipod, put in whatever you wanted, then give it a billion years just to put itself together and you know that it would never would happen.

Such a creative and amazing design of an iPod cannot happen with out teams of people, years of work, and tons of money. And we're just talking about an iPod here.

If an iPod takes that much design and creativity and engineering... tell me then... what you see in this image... do you think it took some form of design from some form of a designer?



Give the picture a click. Take a closer look at it.

Those disks aren't single stars. They are galaxies. Galaxies that comprise of millions of solar systems and hold millions and millions of stars.

"Get off of me silly iPod! You aint got nothing on me!" says this picture. An iPod pales... PALES in comparison to the complexity of the objects in this image. They're not even worth comparing. They're really not.

And remind me again what it took to create an iPod...

Convince Me That There Is No God! I dare you!...

For you will only reveal your own ignorance and foolishness.


"1 Praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD from the heavens,
praise him in the heights above.

2 Praise him, all his angels,
praise him, all his heavenly hosts.

3 Praise him, sun and moon,
praise him, all you shining stars.

4 Praise him, you highest heavens
and you waters above the skies.

5 Let them praise the name of the LORD,
for he commanded and they were created.

6 He set them in place for ever and ever;
he gave a decree that will never pass away.

7 Praise the LORD from the earth,
you great sea creatures and all ocean depths,

8 lightning and hail, snow and clouds,
stormy winds that do his bidding,

9 you mountains and all hills,
fruit trees and all cedars,

10 wild animals and all cattle,
small creatures and flying birds,

11 kings of the earth and all nations,
you princes and all rulers on earth,

12 young men and maidens,
old men and children.

13 Let them praise the name of the LORD,
for his name alone is exalted;
his splendor is above the earth and the heavens.

14 He has raised up for his people a horn,
the praise of all his saints,
of Israel, the people close to his heart.
Praise the LORD."

Psalm 148

Labels: God, Jesus

Posted by Sean Walker at 12:06 AM | Permalink | Comments

I was given the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to speak at my dad's church East Bayou Baptist back home in Lafayette, LA. The crowd was around 1,400 people and I spoke on Genesis 3:11 and how we can easily live our entire lives based on things that are totally untrue and how we need to expose those things and base our lives on truth and light. Below is video. Also I have a link to play and download the mp3 below that.



Hit play to listen.


Right click here and "save link as" to download the MP3 and throw it on your ipod.


Here's a couple of sermons from the last 2 times I had the opportunity to speak.
Can God Be Trusted Part 2
Our Trusting During God's Testing

Labels: Jesus, Ministry, Sermons

Posted by Sean Walker at 8:08 PM | Permalink | Comments

Mark Driscoll has launched a website to let people decide on what his first 9 sermons of the new year will be on. He basically said, "Ask anything. Yes, anything!" Then through this website people will vote on the top 9 questions and those will be what he will speak on in the first 9 weeks of 2008.

So go put in your vote! There are some really good questions on there.

Click here - AskAnything.MarshillChurch.org

Labels: Church, Jesus

Posted by Sean Walker at 2:25 PM | Permalink | Comments

Dr. Richard Ross is the reason I chose Southwestern Seminary over New Orleans Seminary. Basically... he's the man when comes to Student Ministry (hence the reason I'm at Southwestern)!

Here he is teaching a seminar on how to mobilize parents to impact their children for Christ. It's so powerful. If you're a parent, or ever planning on being a parent, this is worth your time. While in this seminar he's speaking to pastors about how to impact the parents in their churches, the understanding of these truths is still the same and changed even the way I plan on being a father in the future.

Here's a link to some info on Dr. Ross. Click here.

Labels: Church, Family, Jesus

Posted by Sean Walker at 1:09 AM | Permalink | Comments

See You At The Pole is this week, Wednesday, September 26th. For those of you still in school this is a worldwide annual event where inter-denominational Christian students gather at the flagpole of their school on the last Wednesday of September at 7am to come together and pray for their school, their state, and their country, and its leaders. It is also a chance to make a statement to your fellow students about WHO you are and WHOSE you are.


Here's the blurb off of SYATP.com

My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. -John 17:20-23

It's tough being a Christian student today. We're forced to make a lot of choices about who we are, and who we're not. We're supposed to be deciding on our future, when the present is hard enough to deal with.

We have a lot of dividing lines drawn for us. They're invisible, but we see them clearly every day. The grade we're in, the kind of grades we make, overachievers, underachievers, geniuses, slackers. The groups we hang with--jocks, preps, goths, sk8rs, gamers, or geeks. As a Christian, the church we attend, how we pray, the way we worship, and how we interpret the Bible. And yeah, even in 2007 race can still divide. Many of us are asking, "Where do I belong? Who cares about me? Why don't I fit in?"

See You at the Pole™ isn't about groups, grades, clothes, or churches. It's about praying. It's about all of us coming together and laying aside all the labels for one day, simply to call out to God, just as Jesus did in John 17 and say, "Lord, may we be one in you--whether jocks, preps, geeks, Pentecostals, Baptists, Catholics, freshmen, or seniors--may the world believe that You are real and have sent us to touch other through you, regardless of the dividing lines drawn by a broken world!"

So are you in? Are you ready whatever group you're in, to join us in the circle?

Join your generation of faith on Wednesday, September 26, at 7 a.m., GATHER at your school flagpole, UNITE in the name of the One Who died to save you, and PRAY for your school, friends, and families. COME TOGETHER, just as Jesus prayed we would.

Labels: Jesus, Unity

Posted by Sean Walker at 10:44 PM | Permalink | Comments

"And they were bringing children to Him so that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, "Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. "Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all." And He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands on them." Mark 10:13-16

Tonight at church we had a class where we teach our kids the foundations of faith. One of our children's pastors teaches about Adam and Eve and sin, and Romans 3:23 and then explains God's plan through Jesus, and then leads the kids in a prayer if they want to accept Christ. Well after that, they give the parents a chance to have some one-on-one time with their kids to make sure they understand salvation and Jesus and all of that. Well during this time, my fellow pastors and I are walking around answering questions that any children might have.

One child raises his hand and I walk up to him and kneel down next to him and he asks me, "Where did God come from?"

I responded, "That's a great question. Now this might be difficult to understand, but, God has always been. He has no beginning and no end, so he's always been around."

And obviously he didn't understand that b/c I don't even understand. It's unfathomable that God doesn't have a beginning and an end. So realizing that he didn't understand I thought that I'd make the point that God is so big and so great that there are some things about Him that we'll never understand. So I said, "Do you have any ants in your yard?"

"Yes."

"What if you went up to one of those ants, and you wanted to explain to it how a computer works. Do you think that ant could understand?"

"I'd have to become an ant to explain that to him!" he yelled out loud!

And I just sat there and went, "Wow! That is exactly right!" He couldn't of said it any better, and pitched it right down the middle for me to say, "That's exactly what God did for us. God is smarter than anything else EVER! And b/c he wanted to tell us how much he loved use, he sent his son Jesus to tell us, so that we could understand his love for us."

I was trying to teach him that God is mysterious, and he was unintentionally, and ever so brilliantly, reminding me that...

"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:14

that...

"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich." 2 Corinthians 8:9

that...

"Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." Philippians 2:8


What a great God we serve that he would humble himself and become like an ant, just to tell us that He loves us and He paid the price for our ridiculousness lives and selfish sin, so that our relationship with Him could be restored once again!

He demands and deserves nothing less than our lives!

Labels: Jesus

Posted by Sean Walker at 11:20 PM | Permalink | Comments

"You are not always protected from the hard things in life. You will have the difficult times in life. What God will do is not protect you from, but secure within those times, for there is never a moment when you are separated from the love of God, and the harder life gets, the greater the outpouring of God's love becomes in your life."

Dr. Chuck Kelley, who is the President of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, spoke this morning on Romans 8 and Mark 14 preaching on the difference between eternal security and eternal safety and what in the world is going on when life just hurts. It's so good!

Click here to watch it.

Click play below to listen.

Labels: Faith, Jesus, School, Sermons

Posted by Sean Walker at 11:15 PM | Permalink | Comments

I snagged this off my friend Heath's blog.

Best story ever told, with some amazing art to used to tell it.

Labels: Jesus

Posted by Sean Walker at 10:27 PM | Permalink | Comments

"Truth and Light" January 6, 2008 East Bayou Baptist Church
This sermon is based around Gen 3:11 and how we can easily live our lives based on lies and darkness and how we need to expose those things and live our lives based on truth and light.



"Can God Be Trusted? Part 2" July 23, 2006 East Bayou Baptist Church
This is a sermon about how when we're tempted there is more at stake than what we originally think. our faith is at stake. Check out the entire series via MP3s at eastbayou.org.



"Our Trusting During God's Testing" June 28, 2006 East Bayou Baptist Church
This sermon is about what to do when life is just tough and there seems to be no progress.

Labels: Jesus, Ministry, Sermons

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