Genesis 3:14-15 “And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: and I will put en...
Continue ReadingPsalm 23:1-2 “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.” Coldwater Lake in Washington State looks so pretty, nestled between the mountains. This scene of tranquility...
Continue ReadingProverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” James Ussher is famous, or infamous, depending on your point of view, for his work on creation. It was Ussher who calculated that the Earth was c...
Continue Reading2 Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” The years between 1639 and 1651 were times of great turbulence in the British Isles as a series of deadly conflicts...
Continue ReadingPsalm 75:2-3 “When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.” Three people went out to dig for rock. The rocks in their claim were rich in mine...
Continue ReadingHebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” From an early age, Charles Darwin’s mother, Sukey, took him to church. Tha...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 60:2 “For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.” You must have heard the evolutionary idea that dinosaurs were wiped out by an aste...
Continue Reading1 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...
Continue Reading2 Timothy 3:16-17 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” As I write...
Continue ReadingGenesis 7:11-12 “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the e...
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