The book Camino documents her 500-mile trek along a pilgrim’s path in northern Spain. She claims that her journey led her spiritually back through thousands of lives to the start of the universe. On the beach she shouted I am God, Shirley MacLaine, standing on the beach with her hands raised in the air. Shirley […]

Let us make, how much literature is written on that.  Is this God addressing the heavenly council? If so, then it’s not just God who’s involved in creation but the heavenly council.  The unseen realm, Is this a royal we? Is this a reference to the three persons of the Holy Trinity? In dogmatics that, […]

Genesis 2:7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8 And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed 20 And the man gave names to […]

The Darwinian centennial of 1959, commemorated  the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species,  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. The celebration was held at the University of Chicago. Several modern science steps were taken there: the […]

CLEVERNESS KILLS WISDOM: that is one of the few sad and certain things. IN THE BEGINNING of the twentieth century you could not see the ground for clever men. They were so common that a stupid man was quite exceptional, and when they found him, they followed him in crowds down the street and treasured […]

John Haldone, a scientist, once suggested to Monsignor Knox that in a universe containing millions of planets it was inevitable that life would appear by chance on one of them. “Sir,” said Knox, “if Scotland Yard found a body in your Saratoga trunk, would you tell them, ‘There are millions of trunks in the world—surely […]

The story is told of a science professor who constructed a planetarium, a precisely scaled model of the universe. A student came into his office and asked him who made it. The professor said, “No one.” The student laughed and asked again, “Come on, who made this fantastic piece of precise work.” The professor replied, […]

A letter from a missionary out in the jungles of New Guinea writing to his friends at home caught the nature of spiritual warfare: “Man, it is great to be in the thick of the fight, to draw the old devil’s heaviest guns, to have him at you with depression and discouragement, slander, disease. He […]

The experience at the ford of the River Jabbok occurred as Jacob returned from his long stay at Haran. While preparing for a reunion with his brother, Esau, of whom he was still afraid (32:7), he had a profound experience that left him changed in both body and spirit. At the ford of the Jabbok, […]

From the spiritual mountaintop of Bethel, Jacob descended into everyday life where he met uncle scheming Laban. Genesis 29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son: and she ran and told her father. Jacob’s Service for Laban’s His Daughters 29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and he […]