Monthly Archives: June 2014

God’s Rain

Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made. And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him. Noah was six hundred … Continue reading

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Water as punishment

By Italian painter Domenico Morelli (1823-1901). So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the … Continue reading

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Eden

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden by Cole Thomas “A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is … Continue reading

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Streams came up…

Thunder River in the Grand Canyon “and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no … Continue reading

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Rule over – but do it prayerfully

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”   So … Continue reading

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Teeming with life

And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which … Continue reading

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Water for life

Firefox Nebula as taken by the Hubble Space Telescope And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And … Continue reading

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And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.”So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it.   And it was so.     –   Genesis 1:6-7  The … Continue reading

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In the Beginning…

Today I begin a journey blogging my thoughts and reflections on water in the bible.  My hope and prayer is that this trip will lead me (and anyone who cares to come along with me) through the bible in a … Continue reading

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