In this volume he takes as his text a happy adaptation by the late Prof. P. Termier, director of the Geological Survey of France, “The earth declares the glory of God”, and succeeds in justifying it, telling his story in a manner that the intelligent layman can understand. In this ...
In spite of the disaster that was the twentieth century, we haven’t learned where the problem lies. The problem goes back to the Garden when the Devil tempted Eve; “You shall be as gods.” He has been tempting us ever since. He even tempted Christ. “If you are the Son of God”...
The question then is what, in the advent of this collapse, are human artificers doing when they construct artefacts? Are they replicating God’s powers by creating new natures, or are they doing something else, and if so, what might that be? It is argued that we should view human ...
The nature of hope in the Bible is grounded in the character and promises of God. In the Old Testament, hope is often linked with waiting on the Lord and trusting in His faithfulness. The psalmist declares, "Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope ...
Here we find nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her. We have crept out of our close and crowded houses into the night and morning, and we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly...
self-complacent Luther declares with an emphasis, not to be mistaken, that "God himself cannot do without wise men." Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the pertinacity of their controversial tracts, and James Naylor once suffered himself to be worshipped as the Christ. Each...
In contrast to idolatry, the Bible calls believers to worship God in spirit and truth. Jesus, in His conversation with the Samaritan woman, declares, "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is ...
God calls us to rest and be filled in His presence. When we are broken and struggling to believe we are loved, God desires us to come to Him with our doubts and insecurities. He is ready to wrap us up in His never-ending love which declares “For as high as the heavens are above...
Earlier Paul had written, “for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). All Jews and all Gentiles had all sinned. But physical death had not passed to “all” men. I would have taken Enoch, but before I could get to him, God had already removed him...
Some people naturally obey the Law's commands, even though they don't have the Law. English Revised Versionfor when Gentiles which have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law unto themselves;GOD'S WORD® TranslationFor example, whenever non-Jews ...