William Harvey and René Descartes both speculated that there must be somewhere in the body a place where the “vital spirit” or “vital force” is located, animating the body much
Many religious scholars agree that John’s subsequent baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, described in three of the gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) and by a number of other canonical and non-canonical sources, is almost certainly a historical event. The archaeological site at Al-Maghtas,...
“WheretheWind.com Sermon” on your podcast app of choice. Imagine with me the memories of the Apostle Peter, near the end of his life, thinking back to that day in Capernaum that is described in our Gospel reading this morning. We didn’t think Jesus could hear us on the road. He...
The first is the Creation story from the first chapter of Genesis. Instead of speaking the divine words for each of the seven days (“Let there be light,” etc.), God performs an action, since in the Bible God’s word is not just description of an action, but the action itself. For...
According to Genesis in the Bible, Nimrod (grandson of Noah) built the Tower of Babel. The Babylonians desire was to make it “with its top in the heavens”. But god punished them for this deed, stopped the construction and scattered the people all around the world. Before that point sp...
Paul believes that Jesus said to him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.”6 So that’s why Paul says he gladly boasts of his own weaknesses. But what are we to make of the mystical experience that Paul described earlier? It’s not the most ...
But the part of you that I just described; the part where writing is just something that you need to do, can finally breathe. It can create what it needs to today. The Shadow is the part of us that keeps our ego in check because our ego is always going to want to take over. Our...
t own a huge company that can donate millions to charities, but I CAN take the lesson from Jesus asking his closest friends to join him in prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew: 26:36), and lean on the fact that the Bible tells us God hears every prayer. The thing is – we...
“It’s snowing in Pinnacle” does that to me—brings back a feeling of being at South Stokes High School, laboring through the post-holiday January doldrums, seeing the school year stretch endlessly on with no break in sight—Easter vacation merely a dim mirage on the monotonous horizon. Th...
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