Genesis 11:7-8 “Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.” It...
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 t...
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...
Continue ReadingGenesis 7:19-20 “And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.” “You can’t possibly believ...
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 world’s most infamous hockey stick was probably the graph produced for the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl...
Continue ReadingGenesis 11:8-9 ‘So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from...
Continue ReadingGenesis 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...
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