Friday Men’s Group 7/12/24

• Vascular Spasm: Immediately after Jane cut herself, blood vessels started to constrict to reduce blood flow, minimizing blood loss.
• Platelet Plug Formation: Platelets, tiny cell fragments in the blood, adhere to the wound and release chemicals making nearby platelets sticky, forming a temporary “platelet plug”
• Release of Clotting Factors: Platelets release proteins called clotting factors. This is crazy…… there are 12 clotting factors that have to be released in perfect sequence. Here are just two:

–Factor I (Fibrinogen)
–Factor II (Prothrombin)
–and 10 more……. Some convert into critical enzymes and some into fibrin stands that “weave” through the platelet plug, creating a stable durable clot and like a good Boy Scout, they tighten the strands as it goes. How does it know how to do that?

• Clot Removal: When Jane’s cut is sufficiently healed, the clot is no longer needed. The enzyme “plasmin” breaks down the fibrin mesh in a process called fibrinolysis, restoring normal blood flow. Whoa!!

If just one of the clotting factors is missing or defective, you have a condition called hemophilia. A person suffering from this condition can very well bleed uncontrollably.

Conclusion: If evolution is true and if this 12-step process didn’t happen in the first generation (i.e. if any one of these specific reactions failed to operate in their exact reaction and order), no creature would have survived. They all would have bled to death!

By the way, Jane’s finger stopped bleeding by some strange and random coincidence 😎 ……. and is now healing. 

IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD

Our fairly new LG Dryer started squeaking (you might remember, Kevin, who installed it). It is still under warranty, so Jane called the repairman out. It was a bad bearing in the motor. The guy fixed it in short order. I was upstairs while all this was going on. Jane came up and said the guy did a great job and just left. I raced to the window and saw his truck was still in our driveway. I grabbed my stuff and some money and raced outside. He rolled down his window. Super nice guy, maybe in his late 50’s. I could tell he was ready to head to his next appointment, so I condensed my talk. When I asked him where he was on his spiritual walk, he deflected the answer by saying his son is a pastor. He accepted the (3) tracts and thanked me for the gratuity. I said he should show those tracts to his son. He smiled and drove off. Only the Lord knows tomorrow………

Memory Verse

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;
I have made the Lord GOD my refuge,
That I may tell of all Your works.
(Psalm 73:28)

Let’s commit to everything in that powerful verse…….. and tell everyone all His works! Maybe even how blood clots!

In His Grip,
Dan
(Gal 2:20) 

Men:  Check out these words from Romans 1:29-31

Wickedness, greed, evil, envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful……….

Pick one….. How about gossip? These words are not about OTHER people, they are about YOU. Do you see yourself though the lens of Romans 1:29-31?

Remembering Who We Are – Day 196 Red Book

The purpose of these devotionals is to help you think Biblically
Solomon said, “As a man thinks, so is he”

🛑 IF THIS TALK DOESN’T SOBER YOU UP, NOTHING WILL 🛑

Listen Up!
Warnings from the Letter to the Hebrews

“Dan, don’t waste your breath. I walked the aisle year’s ago. Jesus is my Lord and Savior!”
I can’t tell you how many times I have heard something like that from guys I talk to and care about. Yet, I see NO FEAR OF THE LORD and they want to SERVE GOD ON THEIR TERMS AND NOT HIS! I see little conviction, no fruit and this statement from the opening of the documentary, “The Insanity of God” applies to them,