1 Kings 7:23 “And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.” In 1 Kings 7:23, there is an unusual account of how Sol...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 61:1-3 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that a...
Continue ReadingGenesis 6:8 “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.” Genesis 1:1 is pretty cool. It tells us that God made the world, the universe, and everything from nothing. It is a verse that gives the lie to all the great philosophies of the modern age. Y...
Continue ReadingMatthew 6:8 “Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” Qohelet, the writer of the book of Ecclesiastes, reminds us to “Remember your Creator”. Why do we need to remember Hi...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:31 “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” If you want to learn a new subject, find a master at the subject and copy them. If you want to lose weight, fin...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:8 “And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.” In C.S. Lewis’s book about the creation of Narnia, The Magician’s Nephew, there is an “Enclosed Garden”. This is the place where Asl...
Continue ReadingPsalm 81:16 “He would have fed them also with the finest of wheat; And with honey from the rock I would have satisfied you.” We have all heard of “superbugs” – bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Antibiotic-resistant Staphylo...
Continue ReadingPsalm 119:105 “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” There has been a tendency among some evangelicals to worry about scientific opinion. For example, there has been a drive to reinterpret Genesis in the light of evolutionary the...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:1 “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” An article in the New Scientist magazine suggests that the Reformation was a spur to scientific development. In their minds, Luther was a rebel, and it was this atti...
Continue ReadingHebrews 3:4 “For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.” Joseph Priestley was, by all accounts, not a pleasant man. He was brought up in a dissenting chapel in Heckmondwicke, Yorkshire, having been born in Birstall, n...
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