By Randy Alcorn, Blog posted March 13, 2015 at: www.epm.org From childhood I’ve loved astronomy. Night after night I would gaze at the stars, clueless about a Creator, but longing for something more. I yearned for something bigger than myself. One night I discovered the great galaxy of Andromeda, with its […]
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by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938); From God’s Trombones, 1927; based on 19th century African-American preaching For a great video of this poem by Wintley Phipps go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-h4_VPXdoY And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I’m lonely– I’ll make me a world. And far as the eye of God could
Faded, crumpled, shriveled seeds which now seem dead, will soon, under ‘June’s magic kiss,’ burst forth into beautiful flowers and gardens. In the last line the poet has us imagine how we are able to hold in our hand the seeds that could grow a whole forest– ‘in my hand a forest lies asleep.’ The
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A recent scientific discovery is being called the “smoking gun” of the Big Bang Theory. But if there was a gun and a bang, Who pulled the trigger? Today’s meditation is adapted from the April 1, 2014 blog by John Stonestreet at www.breakpoint.org You’ve likely heard of the Big Bang theory. But you
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By C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity, 1952 I remember once when I had been giving a talk to the R.A.F., an old, hard-bitten officer got up and said, “I’ve no use for all that stuff. But, mind you, I’m a religious man too. I know there’s a God. I’ve felt Him: out alone in the
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Each time we recite the Apostle’s Creed we say we believe that Jesus ‘ascended into heaven.’ Acts chapter one tells us that in the forty days after his resurrection Jesus appeared several times to the apostles he had chosen, and, ‘gave many convincing proofs that he was alive.’ Then he went up to
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Above: Arctic Tern migration route One more from Phil Robertson, in Happy, Happy, Happy, pages 165-168, Copyright, 2013. (For more on Phil Robertson see Blog #113) …We can make as many improvements as we want to our duck blinds, but they’ll never be as good as the ancestral holes. Some of
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From a sermon entitled “Life Eternal” by Ralph Sockman (1889-1970) As I ponder Paul’s discussion of the body (in II Corinthians 4 & 5), it deepens my realization that personality does go on despite bodily changes. We are told that a human body undergoes a complete renovation every seven years (by the ongoing
