Sun and Shield

Musings on science, the Bible, and fantastic literature (and sometimes basketball and other stuff).
God speaks to us through the Bible and the findings of science, and we should listen to both types of revelation.
The title is from Psalm 84:11.
The Wikipedia is usually a pretty good reference. I mostly use the World English Bible (WEB), because it is public domain. I am grateful.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

God's creativity

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God is unimaginably creative. John 1 , Colossians 1 , and other passages indicate that God the Son was and is the chief agent in cr...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Sunspots 420

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: Todd Wood, a Young-Earth Creationis...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Putting Terrorism in Perspective

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Columnist Leonard Pitts puts terrorism in perspective , saying that terrorists are only powerful if we pay attention to them.
Monday, May 27, 2013

The New Testament use of the word, "think."

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There are a number of occurrences of the word, think , in the New Testament. Most of those occurrences are in the form "What do you th...
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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Concerted prayer, part 4

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As good a Church as that at Thessalonica needed instruction and caution on this matter  of looking after disorderly persons. So we hear Pau...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Sunspots 419

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: Ken Schenck, on " Going to He...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Lessons from grass, and green

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Green* is one of the most common English surnames, and it was used in Scotland, too. People were named Green because they lived near a ...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Memo to self, about current events in the Obama administration

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I'm old enough to remember more foul-ups by US Presidents, or their underlings, than I wish I did. Here are three that I remember. Ric...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Concerted Prayer, Part 3

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The work of the Church is not alone to seek members but it is to watch over and guard them after they have entered the Church. And if any ar...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

Sunspots 418

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: Christianity Today has published a graphic...
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Concerted Prayer, Part 2

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All this means that the main, the concluding and the all powerful agency in the Church is prayer, whether it be, as we have seen in Matthew ...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Sunspots 417

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: The latest issue of Answers ...
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Sunday, May 05, 2013

Concerted Prayer, Part 1

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Our Lord deals with this question of the concert of prayer in the eighteenth chapter of Matthew. He deals with the benefit and energy result...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Sunspots 416

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:     Computing: PC Image editor , a free photo editor for...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Prayer Born of Compassion, part 8

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Jesus Christ was altogether man. While He was the Divine Son of God yet at the same time, He was the human Son of God. Christ had a pre-emin...
Friday, April 26, 2013

C. S. Lewis on the goodness of creation

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C. S. Lewis, in his Reflections on the Psalms , notes that the goodness of God's creation should not be understoo d solely for what it ...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Were religious beliefs/was Islam responsible for the bombings in Boston?

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In case you didn't realize it, some people would answer both of the questions above with a resounding "yes!" They would claim ...
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I have retired from teaching science at Southern Wesleyan University. That's my wife with me in the picture.
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