Volume 191 – Creation Moments

Does the Earth Have a Thermostat?

Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” When scientific ideas seem to disagree with the Bible, Christians should hold firm. The Bible is God’s word,...

Confessing Creation

Exodus 20:11 “For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” In recent years, there has been a renewed interest among Chris...

Confessing Creation Again

Ecclesiastes 7:29 “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.” In the previous Creation Moment, I looked at the Westminster Confession of Faith and showed that the statement in chapter 4 §I i...

Oceans Reborn

Genesis 8:2 “The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;” There is an upper layer to the Earth’s Mantle called the Asthenosphere. This comprises of semi-molten rock. Crustal rocks...

Antonio Snider-Pellegrini

Genesis 7:18 “And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.” The idea of plate tectonics is today such a deeply ingrained idea that many people assume the concept is completely p...

Were There Lots of Floods?

2 Peter 3:5-6 “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:” The ideas of de...

Thomas Chalmers’ Gap

Exodus 20:11 “For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” In 1814, Thomas Chalmers was a young Scottish clergyman with a...

George Stanley Faber

Exodus 20:11 “For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” 19th Century books had such memorable titles! Anglican vicar G...

Appealing to Evidence

Psalms 119:46-47 “I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.” Evidence speaks for itself, we are told. But, that is not the case. The one thing that ev...

A Transpiration of Delight

Isaiah 55:1 “For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” On certain days, especially in the morning, you can...