David T Hottel

Change

I'll bet you can figure out the people in the photograph if you know who we are. If you only know me, then you might guess this was my family at this date in 1962. I was the Chaplain at Ft Kobbe in the Canal Zone and one of the guys in the youth choir made this picture of us during some type of rehearsal. Gary loved to take pictures, just like I do. He used his father's Leica most of the time. We are still in touch with these kids who were part of the Chapel family during my tenure. They are called "Kobbe Kids". Search for them and you will find.

Things have really changed since then. Our son was born, we are all older;many have passed to the next world. Technology has really advanced. Now you can wear Google Glass and take picture and videos by just looking at the subjects. We can "Photoshop" images so that they bear little resemblance to the original.

So, what is reality? The Apostle Paul wrote to young Timothy these words.

2 Timothy 3:14  But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,

15  and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

16  All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

17so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 4:1-5 (NIV2011)

1  In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge:

2  Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.

3  For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

4  They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

5  But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. 

A casual reading will leave you with the ideas that some changes may not be good, in fact we must subject them to the word of God.

Our sermon for October 20,2013 is on the topic, "Reality Check". Come by and check it out. Hillendale Baptist Church,13135 Hillendale Dr., Woodbridge, Va 22193.

Oh, by the way Gary still takes pictures in Oregon where he lives, and I take loads of pictures in Stafford where I live. Our equipment has really change, but the pictures are real? or "photoshopped"? or ?

Dave