Revival in Kenya

Just got back from an unforgettable trip to Kenya.

Too much to really express, but the highlight for me was getting to preach and pray for the sick in Kibera, a city within a city in Nairobi and Africa's largest slum. 1.5 million people live in poverty, but despite this and maybe because of this, there is a huge response to the gospel there.

After holding pastors seminars in Nakuru and a Wednesday night crusade in the slums there we travelled back to Nairobi and The Door church at Kibera for Saturday and Sunday night crusades, which had begun mid-week. My pastor preached at the church building in the morning, where I was able to give my testimony, and then we headed to the Kibera slums for the evening.

I prayed for many sick people, who were all healed and I would say over 60 people answered the altar call. In total 430 souls were saved during the crusade - powerful! It really is happening in Kenya and I've always felt it's the most fruitful place in the world.

More stories to come, but my heart truly is stirred for this nation and pray God would have me be a missionary in East Africa one day.

Mungu akubariki!

Stephen Hawking's Favourite Fairy Stories & Other Tales...

It is funny how selectively blind the world is to reason and logic. It is funnier how the people that they exalt perpetuate and entrench such blindness. Or not so funny.

One would hope that Hawking et al would open the door of their hearts to objective consideration considering terminal illness, no matter how long they eventually live. Unfortunately Professor Hawking shows no sign of following suit of many great thinkers throughout history and applying his mind to all the glaring observations of science that necessitate a creator.

He said this in a May 2011 interview: "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail...There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark".

Well, this of course begs the question of who made the computer? The truth is the brain is infinitely more complex than a man-made computer. Before Professor Hawking disputes the existence of a soul, immortality of the soul, or a place of existence of the immortal soul, he must of course first explain the naturalistic origins of the brain - which he cannot do. It is incredibly puerile to say those who believe in or have experienced heaven hold to a fairy story. One could easily point to Hawking's faulty analogy of the inorganic, man-made computer and the organic, logical product of an higher intelligence than man as a 'fairy story'.

This excerpt also caught my attention: 'When asked what is the value of knowing why we are here, Hawking replied , "The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations directly in the abstract. We need to use the effective theory of Darwinian natural selection of those societies most likely to survive. We assign them higher value". I use my scientific prerogative and beg to differ. If you are a secular humanist/Darwinist then there is no value to being here what so ever, as value itself is an abstract concept that a naturalistic universe cannot determine.

If Hawking was the great Physicist that is he is held-up to be, then he should clearly see that Darwinism is not effective, sufficient to explain origins or a good historical gauge of what is generally accepted as valuable by civilised people. Neither is the universe governed by 'science' - it is governed by the providence of God through the laws He has put in place - by 'science' Hawking is means the secular humanist world-view. He could easily have said it is governed by 'nature' or God, but he wants to sound authoritative and empirical and definitely not like a theist. Unfortunately he is far from empiricist; as happened to Peter, his speech betrays him.

He says that "science tells us we can't solve the equations directly in the abstract", but the real statement here is that his pre-conceived secular humanist world-view won't allow him to employ logic or true empiricism, like mathematics. Looking at incredibly complex design and pointing to a transcendent designer is just too 'abstract' for old Stephen. Yet he is not quite empirical enough to crunch the numbers and see that mathematical law rules out unguided naturalistic origins for the universe and its complexity.

Then, either in foolish bravado or a drunken stupor, he bursts out of the Trojan horse of Darwinism and hits the nail on the head. If evolutionists decide, for coherence of argument, that there is such an 'abstract' concept as value then it has to be determined through the cracked, warped and wrongly prescribed lens of Darwinism. Indeed, the value lies in 'higher animals'. Sorry, didn't mean to quote from Mein Kampf, but for brevity's sake it seemed just the point that Hawking was making.

So here we have it, Hawking as Dawkins, as Hitchens as Huxley, doesn't believe in the God he is going to stand before and an eternal destination for his soul (I think for an old sinner it would be better to 'reason' against hell). But he is frank enough to also reveal that the beliefs he holds to lead him to think that the West is of more value than the Two-Thirds world, an over-fed British child is of more value than a starving African one and value can arbitrarily be assigned based on the opinion of a man who believes he is ultimately accountable to no one outside himself.

Well done, world, another of your geniuses manages to kick his own tonsils into touch.