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On April 23 Rev. Bill Jack from Worldview Academy will be visiting Northwood Church in Redwood Falls. Jack is a co-founder of Worldview Academy and an educator with ten years’ experience in secular schools and 14 years with The Caleb Campaign, a creationist youth ministry. Jack has spoken to thousands of students and parents around the nation, and he has appeared on various radio, podcast, and television programs. Jack’s passion is to raise up a generation who have the vision to reach their culture with the gospel, who have the valor to engage that culture with the truth, and who rely on the virtue of the Word of God. Jack will be speaking April 23 at 10 a.m. at Northwood Church in Redwood Falls. Northwood Church will also be having two Wednesday night pre-visit services with Bill Jack videos – on Wednesday April 12 and April 19 at 7 p.m. at Northwood Church.

While the winter has been long and unbearable at times, one of the joys for me is getting a chance to see all the wildlife as it fights to make it through this season. Our area is full of eagles, deer, turkeys, pheasants, hawks, owls and so many other beautiful creatures. I’ve been lucky to be able to capture them and form a bond with them along the way. In this image you see a pair of doe I ran into on the river bottom and one decided to peak over her friend to check me out.

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and Child’s Place, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization located in Redwood Falls, is requesting support by making a minimum donation of $50 for a pinwheel sponsorship.

Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end. As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. (Hebrews 3:21-19, NRSV) The book of Hebrews was written as a spiritual guide for the new Christian church. While the overall theme of this book is that Jesus Christ is the sole source of God’s grace for Christians, this passage in particular deals with unbelief. The writer refers to a passage from the Psalms with which his presumably largely Jewish audience would be familiar. Using the experience of the Israelites who escaped Egypt only to fall into idolatry while awaiting God’s deliverance, the writer tells us to guard against such unbelief by encouraging each other in faith.