Category: God’s nature
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Earth is our home
A pastor of mine often ended his prayers with “this is not our home,” telling us that we’re here briefly while in transit to heaven, so we should not get wrapped up in Earth. But the pastor is mistaken. We’ve been placed on this planet for seventy (more or less) years to glorify and love…
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Saving Life on Earth
Catrin Einhorn, “Nearly Every Country Signs On to a Sweeping Deal to Protect Nature,” The New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/climate/biodiversity-cop15-montreal-30×30.html? My comments: For nature and for us, this is huge: the COP 15, 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference agreement in Montreal. Can we stop the sixth extinction—the deterioration of the biosphere that we live…
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Close to God in his nature: the joy of creation
John Muir’s inspiration, joy, and rhapsody while in nature are evident in his experience at a glacier in Alaska: “Standing here, with facts so fresh and telling and held up so vividly before us, every seeing observer, not to say geologist, must readily apprehend the earth-sculpturing, landscape-making action of flowing ice. And here, too, one…
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Face to face with God . . . in his nature
In the quiet of nature, we find ourselves face to face with God’s love of life and variety of life, his cycles of life and death and life again, the immensity of his time and space, and with the wonders and wisdom by which he created the universe. At the seashore, on a mountaintop, in…
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Messy in Nature
It’s messy sometimes, writing while in nature. I’ve sand on my shorts and sand on the bike bag that I’m using as a writing surface. Rain drizzle smears the lines on wide-ruled notebook paper as my pen attempts to scribble this morning’s thoughts. Words don’t appear on wet paper, so I skip a few lines…
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Creation theology: the truths we learn.
God created the heavens and the Earth, or more specifically, through his spirit he molded all the planets, stars, and the life they sustain, using energy, elements, and physical laws of the universe. He engineered the cosmos through gravity, atomic forces, chemical and genetic relationships, and more. We now know that Earth is 4.5 billion…
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If I were to die this year
If I were to die this year, what would I like for me to have been doing? Or to put it in more of a do it, present-tense way: What should I strive to do this year? Background: On 13 June 2022, I learned from my stress echocardiogram and my history that I have stable…
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