Genesis 4:20-22And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instru...
Continue ReadingGenesis 8:22 “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” The Northwest Passage is, in many ways, the stuff of legends. It is the idea that there could be a shi...
Continue ReadingMatthew 8:22“But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.” Twice in the Gospels, Jesus is asked by a disciple for a leave of absence to bury his father. In each case, Jesus tells the disciple to let the dead bury their...
Continue ReadingMatthew 6:2Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. Nazareth, the town in which Jes...
Continue ReadingJohn 1:29“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” One of my favorite classical composers is Ludwig van Beethoven. While Bach wrote theological notes in the marg...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:15“And the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” The first book that urged us to take good care of the earth was the Bible. The Bible also reminds those who would be careless about their...
Continue Reading2 Peter 2:5 “And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;” In 2 Peter 2:5, the apostle remarks, almost parenthetically, that “[God] did not ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 11:7-8 “Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.” It o...
Continue ReadingPsalms 95:4 “In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.” The devastating blast from the eruption of Mount St Helens, on May 18, 1980, tore down huge, mature trees. Old growth forest was flattened north of the ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 4:20-22 “And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an in...
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