Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (Psalm 119:105 ESV) They received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. (Acts 17:11 ESV) Some use reading schedules to guide them through the Bible in a year. I am disciplined to …
Month: December 2006
Knowing God – Chapter 2 Quotes
Chapter 2 of Knowing God is entitled "The People Who Know Their God." The focus passage for this chapter is the Book of Daniel, and here are some quotes: A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about Him. One can know a great deal about God without much …
Samaritan’s Purse Christmas Gifts
At the end of our Christmas program (see the previous post), gifts were distributed to the children in attendance. These gifts came from Samaritan's Purse, a Christian relief and evangelism organization. The gifts were wrapped in shoeboxes, and were marked for boys or girls, and with an age. I saw many children who were really …
O ce veste minunata
Tonight (Sunday night) our church in Bucharest, Biserica Evanghelică Liberă Trinitatea (Trinity Evangelical Free Church), had its Christmas program. It was much like many Christmas Eve services I've been at in the U.S., with traditional Christmas carols and a short message. The candlelight carol was an old, traditional Romanian song, "O ce veste minunată" ("O …
Debris flows — concrete in motion
A fellow member of the Affiliation of Christian Geologists recently sent out a great photo of sediments deposited by a debris flow on the White River, near Mt. Hood in Oregon in November. The deposit here is up to 20 feet (6-7 meters) thick. Photo by Doug Jones, USFS A debris flow is a mixture …
Museum of science fiction spaceships
In Senior physics, we just finished a short unit on Einstein's special theory of relativity. One of the implications of special relativity is that nothing can travel faster than light, which travels at 300,000 km/s (186,000 miles per second) in a vacuum. In fact, it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an …
World Wind Mars
Google Earth is great for viewing the Earth, but NASA World Wind is better for viewing the Moon or Mars. Here are some World Wind views of Mars: Like Google Earth, World Wind must be downloaded to your computer. It can be used for viewing the Earth as well, but it doesn't have as much …
Denominations in the U.S.
The Map Gallery of Religion in the United States has maps showing the distribution of various religious groups in the United States. To view any of these maps in more detail, you can right click on the image, then select "view image." Leading Church Bodies — this map shows the group that has the largest …
Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador
NASA's Earth Observatory web site has a good satellite image of the Tungurahua Volcano, which is presently erupting in Ecuador: The description of this eruption from geology.com/news: Tungurahua Volcano in Ecuador has been erupting or restless for the past several months. Lava flows and pyroclastics have blanketed much of the surrounding landscape, forced evacuations of …
Water on Mars
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows two images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor. A comparison of the same crater in 1999 and 2005 shows that there is an active slope process occuring in a crater, and many interpret this to be a brief flow of liquid water down from the rim. Liquid water, …
O Chemis-tree, O Chemis-tree
It is that time of the year; time for chemists (and their students) to gather around their chemis-trees and sing chemis-tree carols. Here's one I wrote for the occasion: THE CHEMIS-TREE SONG (Tune: The Christmas Song) Chestnuts roasting with an open fire With a calorimeter Chemis-tree carols being sung by a choir And students dressed …
A deluded atheist and an honest atheist
Gene Edward Veith, at his Cranach blog, has a link to an intriguing review of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' new book The God Delusion. Dawkins has long been an evangelist for atheism, and is most famous for his books The Blind Watchmaker and The Selfish Gene. The review, written by atheist Shannon Love, is found …
Electron transport chain and ATP synthase animations
ATP synthase moves me to worship the Creator. Every cell on Earth, from simple bacteria to human brain cells, needs a molecule called ATP (adenosine triphosphate; pictured to the left) in order to do a wide variety of tasks. ATP is used as the cell's energy molecule; the source of energy for everything from cell …
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Baby Pictures
Check out the preview of National Geographic's In the Womb: Animals. Some links with more pictures: Daily Mail The Sun Question: If an elephant is an elephant, even when it is in the womb; and a dolphin is a dolphin, even when it is in the womb; then what is a human even when it …
The Cambridge Declaration
Those who know me know that I am very concerned about: Worship that is focused on what Christ does for us rather than on what we do for Christ. Preaching that is focused on what Christ does for us rather than how to be a better ______________. Evangelism that is focused on what Christ does …
The Chicago Statement on Biblical Application
The International Council on Biblical Inerrancy also produced a document called The Chicago Statement on Biblical Application. Article XVI of this statement is about the environment: Article XVI: Stewardship of the Environment We affirm that God created the physical environment for His own glory and for the good of His human creatures. We affirm that …
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The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy
The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy is a standard Evangelical statement of what is—and what is not—meant by the term "inerrancy." In regards to science and the scripture, the statement has article XII, which says: We affirm that Scripture in its entirety is inerrant, being free from all falsehood, fraud, or deceit. We deny that …
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