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23 December 2024
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One morning, about a week ago, I browsed the internet groggily, still in the process of awakening from sleep, when my mom dashed into the house, excited and concerned, clutching an adorable baby bird in her hands. She opened her hands to reveal a precious face, and a wide-open yellow beak that relentlessly demanded food. […]
Earlier this year I watched a wonder-provoking show in the local planetarium depicting the size and expanse of the known universe. Our planet, the solar system, the milky way, and the known galaxies beyond that we’ve captured pictures of through space telescopes permeated the screen as I rolled through the cosmos along with the rotating […]
When I look at and contemplate charts depicting the laws of thermodynamics, a profound realization hits me and stirs up awe in my heart: they were created by a God and not a mere human or angel, and they did not come about as a result of evolution or chance. A higher than human created […]
I like to go to Hobby Lobby to destress. I’ve had a difficult life in many ways and I have a chronic illness. With the help of supplements and doctors I’ve gotten out of terrible suffering and I’m a lot better, but life still isn’t easy for me. I’ve joked that if I’ve used all […]
In chemistry, cotton is made up of a chain of glucose molecules. Combining sulphuric acid with the cotton in a lab, one can change the molecular structure of cotton and make it into a brownish liquid glycose that resembles maple syrup, and astonishingly, now consists of only one glucose molecule. It has become something completely […]
Many people say the Sabbath is a shadow that pointed to Christ and was done away with when Christ came… But the truth is the Bible gives the reason for the Sabbath as memorializing the Creator and the week of creation (Exodus 20:8-11). If this is true, then the Sabbath
During an online Bible study group I was in a few months ago someone asked some key questions about the Sabbath that I wanted to bring up. It’s usually the case that when one person is wondering something that it’s become a question in other people’s minds as well, and
I’ve been studying Luke 4:8 and related texts and I’ve learned some important things about what it means to worship God, and what it means to be a human being and offer God true worship. “Thou shalt Worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve.” A similar
Health
I offer online and phone peer support to people with mental illnesses and their family members, and one thing that has become very clear to me as I’ve engaged with them, is that almost no one knows what schizophrenia really is. Even mothers whose adult children have been diagnosed with schizophrenia after a mental health […]
Music
I started writing ‘I Shall Behold Him’ as I was studying the role that God has to play in our sanctification and the role that we play in surrendering to Him and in fighting battles of faith on our knees to subdue self and pride and obtain the victory. At the beginning of writing this […]
Bible
Many people say the Sabbath is a shadow that pointed to Christ and was done away with when Christ came… But the truth is the Bible gives the reason for the Sabbath as memorializing the Creator and the week of creation (Exodus 20:8-11). If this is true, then the Sabbath comes after the thing it’s […]
During an online Bible study group I was in a few months ago someone asked some key questions about the Sabbath that I wanted to bring up. It’s usually the case that when one person is wondering something that it’s become a question in other people’s minds as well, and there’s a group of people […]
I’ve been studying Luke 4:8 and related texts and I’ve learned some important things about what it means to worship God, and what it means to be a human being and offer God true worship. “Thou shalt Worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve.” A similar text is found here: “Seek […]