End-of-Year 2023

Matt Miles • December 20, 2023

     As 2023 comes to a close, we at CTF are extremely blessed. The Lord continues to open doors for us to speak the Truth boldly and to observe false worldviews be torn down. Throughout the year we have focused on Acts 4 where the believers spoke boldly, being filled with the Spirit, and were SHAKEN. This Christmas let’s take a look at another moment in history when the Lord’s SHAKEN proclaimed Him boldly.


     Mary, in Luke 1, is SHAKEN by the proclamation of her pregnancy while still a virgin. Can you imagine a more life-altering revelation? For her to be betrothed to Joseph and now pregnant with the Messiah would absolutely be overwhelming, enough that most of us would probably go hide in a hole rather than proclaim the Lord’s magnificence. Yet later in the chapter, that is exactly what Mary does, proclaiming boldly, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior” (1:46-47). This season may the Lord also shake us out of our usual Christmas busyness to proclaim Him boldly. 


     Let’s also take a moment to remember His blessings of the year. We all have been blessed in some manner or another this past year. Let us rejoice together! Maybe some of you are struggling through tragedy. May the Prince of Peace continue to show His hand of mercy and grace. We must all share His peace with others who need it more now than ever before. Through good and bad, the Lord is faithful!


     Here at CTF we have seen the faithfulness of the Lord with another year of growth with more new churches and opportunities to share the message He has given us. Please don’t miss this in the year-end stats as they reflect His blessings. Your faithfulness in prayer on behalf of this ministry has been evident over and over again. Be it during our programs, safety over the many miles traveled, or during untimely vehicle breakdowns, His provision through prayers are not overlooked. In addition, the Lord’s continued financial faithfulness this year has allowed us to accomplish several things we have been unable to do in previous years, so we also praise the Lord greatly for your faithfulness in this area. As usual, the end of the year brings another opportunity for special giving. We have need of a new trailer, and we would be honored and very thankful if you would consider supporting our end-of-year giving campaign for it. As always, any gifts to CTF are tax deductible.


     We are looking forward to all the Lord has planned for us in 2024. Keep your eyes peeled for news of expansion plans of our Mobile Museum of Earth History fossil collection. May the Lord bless you and your family during this Christmas season!


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NS-29 Launch
By Matt Miles May 22, 2025
As many of you may know, I appreciate space. Not space around me, although the older I get the more I appreciate that as well. The things in the heavens fascinate me and have for a large chunk of my life. I love working with our telescopes, allowing people to see for themselves objects that the Lord made on the 4th day of history. When I was younger I followed our Space Shuttle program, and over the years I have had the opportunity to see a couple of those shuttles around the country. Now it is great to see all the renewed interest in exploring the heavenly creation. I know most of it is for evolutionary reasons, yet over and over again something is discovered that points to the trustworthiness of God’s Word. After all, we are to study His creation as Genesis 1:28 states. On a recent trip to El Paso, it occurred to me that Blue Origin’s launch facility is in west Texas somewhere. After some quick searching I realized we were within an hour and half of it, and there was a rescheduled launch window during the time of our meeting. So, with some persuading of my colleagues, we arose early one morning to make the launch. We made it with just minutes to spare. It was spectacular! The whole launch to just beyond the Karman Line (space boundary, 62 miles/100km) and return of the rocket and capsule is about ten minutes total. While Blue Origin is best known for its New Shepherd rocket that carries paying customers to space and back with the biggest windows ever in a capsule, this NS-29 launch was purely experimental with a payload of instruments to measure simulated lunar gravity. Even though it was not a Saturn V, Space Shuttle, Starship or Falcon launch, it was great to hear and feel a launch for the first time, from blast off to the sonic boom return. It has piqued my desire to see a bigger launch now. As I began to reflect on what I experienced, the Lord reminded me of His design. Earth, our home planet, is so well designed for life. There is literally nowhere in all the universe like it. Yet He gave us the ability to discover creation beyond it. The only reason we can launch rockets and do space exploration is because He set it up in an orderly way. Physics works because He established it to work in a predictable fashion. As much as we may never understand everything in the universe from our position here, it works on an ordered reality that is reinforced by God’s Word. This is what drove Sir Isaac Newton in his understanding of physics. He wrote, “The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone but were by an intelligent Agent.” Evolutionists may come up with theories about the origin of things in the heavens, but over and over again they are being shown through experimentation and observation to be wrong. The Lord set the order of everything in the beginning and sustains it by His Word (Hebrews 1:3). So as you look to the heavens tonight, gaze into the depths of space and observe the different facets the Lord placed up there for our eyes (Genesis 1:17). Peer through a telescope at the lesser light of the moon with marvel and anticipation of further human study in the coming years. Check out the amazing observations being made by the James Webb telescope from deep in space. All of these place a perspective of how awesome our Creator is and how much we depend on Him. Our design becomes more and more obvious with every discovery, yet in our universe we appear so minuscule and fragile. Thanks be to God that His infinite focus has, is and always will be here on us! Blessings.
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