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Genesis 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...

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Psalm 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...

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Psalm 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...

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Genesis 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...

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Hebrews 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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Genesis 7:11a “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up…” For generations cave guides have been telling cave visitor...

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1 Chronicles 25:7 “So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.” Sometimes, when I have seen beautiful works of visual art, I have felt a pan...

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Isaiah 40:31 “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” The concept of flying has inspired so much in the way of art �...

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Psalm 119:105 “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” A young pastor wrote this on Facebook: “If God is not bigger than your Bible, then your Bible is God.” This is one of those pious phrases that people like to post on Facebo...

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2 Timothy 4:3 “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;” “The time is coming,” said the Apostle Paul to his young protegé, Timothy, “...

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