The Hawaiian volcano Kilauea has been erupting more or less continuously since 1983. Current lava flows are reaching the Pacific ocean, and Honolulu television station KITV has videos: Lava Reaches Ocean Creating Spectacular View HT: Geology News Grace and Peace
Christ-centered Christianity, from beginning to end (Part 3 — Jerry Bridges)
THE GOSPEL IS FOR BELIEVERS Jerry Bridges has a great book on Christ-centered, gospel-centered Christianity entitled The Discipline of Grace. I haven't completed my list of "top ten Christian books" but this one will probably be on it. Bridges wrote an article for Modern Reformation magazine called Gospel-Driven Sanctification. Here are a few quotes from …
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Christ-centered Christianity, from beginning to end (Part 2 — Me-centered or Christ-centered)
Warning: I'm not a big fan of The Purpose Driven Life. I'd rather have a forgiveness-driven life, or a cross-centered life. Warren's book starts out well: "It's not about you," but then is mostly about you. Chris Rosebrough at Extreme Theology has been contrasting Christ-centered theology with me-centered theology. Rosebrough puts much of the church …
Bad fish, bad Wikipedia
I use Wikipedia quite a bit, mainly for getting public domain images for classroom PowerPoint lectures. I occasionally run across vandalism, such as this: That is the entire article on "Fish." I guess that is what you get when you have a "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." Ninety percent of the time, Wikipedia is …
Christ-centered Christianity, from beginning to end (Part 1)
The Gospel isn't just for beginners. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20 NIV) Are you so foolish? After beginning …
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Fish day
Today was fish dissection day in middle school Life Science at BCA. A good time was had by most of my students: Grace and Peace
Shooting down a spy satellite
An animation of last week's spy satellite shootdown is available from Analytical Graphics.
Mt Etna 2002
This image is Wikipedia's "Today's Featured Picture" and is a view of Italy's Mount Etna from space: Here's the description from Wikipedia: An October 2002 eruption of Mount Etna, a volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, as seen from the International Space Station. Etna is the largest of Italy's three active volcanoes and one …
Mars and Valentine’s Day
This item was originally posted in February 2007. It is now part of my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries. Today is Valentine's Day, so... Is Mars the planet of war? After all, Venus was the Roman …
Christ and the wrath of God
Lightning is a picture of God's wrath. We hear it said, "Don't do that or God might strike you down with lightning." Sinners deserve God's wrath; to be struck with lightning. Gene Edward Veith has a picture on his Cranach blog that pictures God's wrath being poured out on Christ on our behalf: Christ took …
Why have trees when you can grow them in Sim City?
AP/Yahoo News headline: Nature Giving Way to Virtual Reality As people spend more time communing with their televisions and computers, the impact is not just on their health, researchers say. Less time spent outdoors means less contact with nature and, eventually, less interest in conservation and parks. I've wondered about this as well. If children …
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Spider crater
From today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: A Spider Shaped Crater on Mercury Explanation: Why does this crater on Mercury look like a spider? When the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft glided by the planet Mercury last month, it was able to image portions of the Sun's closest planet that had never been seen before. When imaging …
Or should it be the Weshouldhavecene?
Back in the mid-1980s, the perceived major disruption to the geologic time scale wasn't climate change, but all-out nuclear war (which still would be, of course, rather disruptive). Geology published a serious and yet somewhat tongue-in-cheek article discussing the effects of nuclear war on stratigraphic nomenclature. Here's the abstract from Postapocalypse stratigraphy: Some considerations and …
The geologic time scale — What comes next?
Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Holocene. These are the epochs of the Cenozoic Era (which is also divided into three periods: the Paleogene, Neogene, and Quaternary). Due to rapid changes on Earth caused by humans, some British geologists suggest that we are transitioning into a new epoch, the Anthropocene. Here's the story as reported …
Consider the ant
The quote in my previous post was a positive one about the need to care for nature. Here's a silly quote from a well-meaning environmentalist perspective: The life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration. --- Michael W. Fox, Vice President, Humane Society of the United States No, an …
Presidential quote on the environment
What American president said the following? “Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country. It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our …
Is Your Church Green?
World on the Web (World Magazine) asks Is Your Church Green? They aren't asking if your church is showing "An Inconvenient Truth" or if your pastor is preaching a ten-week series on global warming. The primary focus of the article is about evaluating our church buildings in terms of five environmental factors: sustainable site development …
27 Storms — hurricanes of 2005
I'm beginning a unit on weather and climate in high school Earth Science tomorrow, and am scouring Google videos for movies depicting weather patterns from space. One excellent video I came across is 27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta, which shows relationships between ocean surface temperatures and storm tracks. It was produced by NASA and NOAA, …
White Horse Inn 2008
The White Horse Inn weekly radio program has begun a year-long series on "Christless Christianity." I listened to the program on Joel Osteen, author of the best-selling "Christian" book Your Best Life Now last night and just cringed at the distortions of the gospel that he proclaims. If you want Christ-centered Christianity that focuses rightly …
Planet Earth — Caves
Living in Romania, I didn't see the "Planet Earth" series on television. It may have been on TV here, but if so I missed it. I am doing a unit on groundwater in Earth science, and was looking for video clips to show in class. I found the introductory scene of the Planet Earth episode …
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