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Proverbs 8:22-31 Creation Care / Science & Preaching Sermon Commentary
A Science & Religion Commentary 22 The Lord created me [Wisdom] at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago. 23 Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. 24 When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no…
Psalm 148 Creation Care / Science & Preaching Sermon Commentary
A Science & Religion Commentary Among the many tasks associated with science, both ancient and modern, is separating the world into its constituent parts and ordering their relationships. The periodic table of the elements and Linnaean taxonomy are two such examples of modern science. These have their ancient corollaries in such things as the Greek…
Psalm 29 Creation Care / Science & Preaching Sermon Commentary
A Science & Religion Commentary Psalm 29 is a Psalm about God, but it’s also about thunder and lightning. The word qol, the Hebrew word for voice, is also the word for thunder, and what Psalm 29 describes is clearly a thunderstorm. Seven times the phrase qol Yahweh, “the voice of the Lord”, thunders through…
Psalm 19:4 Creation Care / Science & Preaching Sermon Commentary
A Science & Religion Commentary Also see Psalm 104:2, Isaiah 40:22, 42:5, 44:24, 45:12 and 51:13; Jeremiah 51:25 and Zechariah 12:1. In the heavens [God] has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom from his wedding canopy, and like a strong man runs its course with joy. You stretch out…
Jeremiah 4:22-28 Creation Care / Science & Preaching Sermon Commentary
A Science & Religion Commentary “My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.” I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone….
1 Kings 4:29-34 Creation Care / Science & Preaching Sermon Commentary
A Science & Religion Commentary 29 God gave Solomon very great wisdom, discernment, and breadth of understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore,30 so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. 31 He was wiser than anyone else, wiser than Ethan…
Leviticus 19:19; Deuteronomy 22:9-11 Creation Care / Science & Preaching Sermon Commentary
A Science & Religion Commentary Lev. 19: 19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your animals breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall you put on a garment made of two different materials. Deut. 22:9-11 You shall not sow your vineyard…
Genesis 30:31-43 Creation Care / Science & Preaching Sermon Commentary
A Science & Religion Commentary Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything; if you will do this for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it: 32 let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled…
Genesis 7:11, 8:1-3a Creation Care / Science & Preaching Sermon Commentary
A Science & Religion Commentary 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals…
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