Category Archives: Nature

Lessons by the Lake

Posted on September 19, 2020 by

Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at … Continue reading →

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Walking on the Lake

Posted on January 3, 2019 by

Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later … Continue reading →

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Director of the Drops

Posted on March 15, 2018 by

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the Lord is his name. … Continue reading →

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Autumn and Spring Rains

Posted on March 12, 2018 by

I will drive the northern horde far from you, pushing it into a parched and barren land; its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea. And its stench will go up; … Continue reading →

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By Many Waters

Posted on March 21, 2016 by

Sharpen the arrows, take up the shields! The Lord has stirred up the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is to destroy Babylon. The Lord will take vengeance, vengeance for his temple.   Lift up a banner against the walls … Continue reading →

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The waters in the Heavens Roar

Posted on January 15, 2016 by

Hear what the Lord says to you, people of Israel. This is what the Lord says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the heavens, though the nations are terrified by them.   For … Continue reading →

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The Lord’s Renown

Posted on November 27, 2015 by

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.   As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering … Continue reading →

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A Drop in the Bucket

Posted on October 27, 2015 by

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.   Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for … Continue reading →

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Too Amazing for Me

Posted on August 8, 2015 by

There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand:  the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of … Continue reading →

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Merchants on the Mighty Waters

Posted on June 16, 2015 by

Some went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters. They saw the works of the Lord , his wonderful deeds in the deep. For he spoke and stirred up a tempest that lifted high … Continue reading →

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