Health worries had caused him to turn down the offer of appointment as Viceroy of India in 1875 and, as we have seen, to limit his time in the Irish vice-regency to a few months in 1885/86. Now fifty-six, Carnarvon not only looked old for his years but was actually finding the ...
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall notBOW DOWNto them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the thi...
You sure can’t ask for better than that. .. From the Prologue: Bedtime Tales. Click on image to enlarge. Richard: Did you make all these sketches in the same location, Carolyn? Carolyn: Yes, I do all of my work at a drafting table that’s situated in a little nook of my ...
tendency to turn Christianity away from a central focus on forgiveness of our sins into a society for moral improvement. The bread and wine remind us of our roots, of where we've been, of Christ's unimaginable love for us, of what Christ has done for us, and where we're headed ...
I want you to see both the "forest" and the "trees": In this passage and the next, which together make up the introduction to Ephesians, Paul tells us that we are:In ChristHoly and blameless, Chosen, Adopted as sons and daughters of God, and Forgivenand have been given:...
With the help of their parents, a pet lizard, an ornery chicken, the president of the Explorers Club, and a man who may or may not be Santa Claus, their quest for the Lost Library will take its last terrible turn. The Navels are going to the North Pole and devious Sir Edmund, a ...
The Lord said, “And the LORD said, Behold, the peopleisone, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not under...
Ralph is delighted to be on a pristine tropical island without adults, but Piggy is less pleased. The two boys make their way out of the jungle and onto the beach. Ralph is not much interested in Piggy and does not request an introduction in turn when Piggy asks Ralph's name. Piggy co...
Similarly, God has also left a witness of His glory to all men in the “outer fringes of His works” (Job 26:14), His creation, so that all men are without excuse (Romans 1:20), and that some may even turn to the Lord and be saved! The psalmist cried, “Turn us again, O ...
Given a center, the corresponding polyhedral region is just the “Voronoi cell” of all points closer to the given center than to any other center. The relaxation process also needs to slightly adjust the volumes to make them all 1. Weaire and Phelan thus provided a new conjectured minimizer...