Tag Archives: Science

Eddying Out – Islands…

Posted on October 16, 2014 by wamplerp

I have not taken a breather to “eddy out” for a while.  I just travelled across the country with a dozen undergraduate geology students…in planes, cars, through two border crossings and three time zones.  I am lucky I can still … Continue reading →

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Rain on Tender Plants

Posted on October 5, 2014 by wamplerp

Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.  Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew,  like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. – Deuteronomy 32:1-2 This passage … Continue reading →

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Crossing Over!

Posted on October 4, 2014 by wamplerp

Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel: “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the … Continue reading →

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Guess who Moved

Posted on October 1, 2014 by wamplerp

However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:   You will be cursed in … Continue reading →

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Trading Hidden Wells for Brooks of Water

Posted on September 24, 2014 by wamplerp

The people of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place.  From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water.  At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of…

Trading Hidden Wells for Brooks of Water was originally published on Walking on Water

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Free of God if We Choose

Posted on September 16, 2014 by wamplerp

You saw no form of any kind the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image … Continue reading →

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The “Meribah Test”

Posted on September 2, 2014 by wamplerp

At Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Aaron will be gathered to his people. He will not enter the land I give the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against my command … Continue reading →

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Full on or Full off?

Posted on August 28, 2014 by wamplerp

On the day the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant law, was set up, the cloud covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire. That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered … Continue reading →

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Garment of God’s Grace

Posted on August 25, 2014 by wamplerp

Then Aaron is to go into the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments he put on before he entered the Most Holy Place, and he is to leave them there.  He shall bathe himself with water in … Continue reading →

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Soot on Our Souls

Posted on August 24, 2014 by wamplerp

The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the Lord . The Lord said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he chooses … Continue reading →

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