Happy Easter

Hey there!!

The Rising River Youth crew want to wish you a blessed and happy Easter!!!

May you see God’s grace and mercy as you follow Him today and always!

We pray that you never forget the reason for this long weekend and that you keep your eyes on Christ!

 

God Bless

Rising River Youth.

What Went Down – 18 March

True U Lesson 8 – DNA by design part 4

It is impossible that chance forms part of our DNA structure!

- The return of the God Hypothesis -

Psalm 111:4 – “He has caused his wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.”

• Thesis

Theism – with its affirmation of a transcendent, powerful and intelligent

Creator – provides the best explanation of the key evidences concerning the origin of the universe and life.

Code is critical for information

Information is the product of intelligent information

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There is evidence of design in:

Physics

Biology

Cosmology

What Went Down – 19th February

Deism and Theism are left as competitors as the right world view

We now move onto DNA and the coding of DNA in the human body.

• Biological Evolution – explains how you get from simple pre-existing forms of life to more complex forms of life.
• Chemical Evolution – explains how you get to the first cell
• Amino Acids are the building blocks for proteins.
• Amino Acids are used to form proteins.  Chance can’t create them as their shape determines their function.
• The function of the whole depends on the arrangement of these parts
• Francois Crick determined that DNA has 4 different “DNA bases”.  Adenine, Cytosine, Guinean, and Thymine.  They are the ‘filing cabinets’ of a cell which then tell the cell how to perform and how to create a new cell.

• The information in DNA has a meaning
• What’s the fundamental mystery of life?
  • The origin of information.
  • Specified information,
  • Functional information.
• Has this appearance of design been explained away by any undirected process
• The only source of specified information is by an intelligent design.

Matt Bowing Out…

As you may have noticed, the updates on the RRY site and the RRY Israel site have stopped rolling somewhat…correction, they’ve dug themselves a nice deep ditch and stopped altogether. My apologies for that; matric and all that seemed to have got in my way. However there is good news and bad news.

The bad first: After much prayer and debating I have made the decision to leave UUPC (and thus RRY) to get together with people of my own age group, which, I feel, will be the most beneficial to my own spiritual growth. The journey at UUPC has been amazing and I have grown a tremendous amount spiritually and otherwise in my time here, but I feel as I open the next chapter of my life, it is time to move on. Thanks for everything UUPC!

Now for the good: Obviously I won’t be contributing any more to both the RRY and the RRY IE site, but that job will be left in the very capable hands of Chris Fuller, all updates and the like will be authored by him in future! All the best Chris!

Building the RRY and RRY IE sites and running them has been a lot of fun! Thanks for all the comments and views (Mainly to the Tabernacle stuff) and I hope you found the Truth of Christ in everything we’ve done here. Look out for more frequent updates in the future from Chris, but from myself, Matt, God bless and thanks for the ride!

 

 

Coleby Farm Trip Added

As usual for all our outdoor trips, we send ‘em to their own “perma-page.” Click here or check the sidebar under “Our Pages” to check out our trip to the Coleby farm!

As many of our members aren’t here for RRY for the past few weeks so updates from the RRY Israel Tour have been temporarily put on hold, sorry! We’ll start updates soon as time and members allow.

Kairos Prison Ministry #10

As some of you might know, our youth leader, Alex, is heavily involved in an amazing prison ministry which reaches out to the hardened criminals and local inmates in our local jails with the message, love and Gospel of Jesus Christ.

From the feedback we’ve been getting the experience was life-changing for both the volunteers and the inmates, and to find out more about this ministry, click here.

Below some images of the team that took part in Kairos #10 which took place recently:

We’ve implemented a new slideshow system! It’s more dynamic, all you have to do is sit back and relax! Seeing an image saying “Slide(r)” and a progress bar is normal. When it reaches 100% the images will play. Enjoy!

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…and after a long pause…

I know the updates have all but stopped since February, but it’s been because we’ve been hard at work on the Israel Site. Granted, that hasn’t seen updates for the past few weeks either, but that’s my fault because I’ve been very busy–I’ll send the updates online as soon as I can, you can read the R&D development on the Israel site. (click the sidebar image)

Apart from that, today is a very important day: Good Friday. The day that the Creator of the world, Jesus Christ, died so cruelly and painfully on the cross to wash away the sins of the world. The scriptures are pivotal, in fact the death and resurrection of Christ is the point which the entire Bible points to. We are truly humbled by God’s amazing grace and love for His creation. Reflect on today, take a look at this video:

Thanks to “jlokey82″ for the video.