Dale offers the prompt “pick a colour” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Since I am near huge bodies of water at the moment, I’ll choose the color blue.
To add contrast I’ll also include the reds and yellows of a sunset and the dark silhouettes of trees and maybe even some people if they get in the way.
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I found the following video on Dianne Marshall’s blog post this morning.
It is filled with Bible quotes.
Glancing at the channel’s playlists I doubt that I would agree with everything they teach, but the above video I could find no objection to. If you do, let me know in the comments.
The Holy Spirit provides the wisdom we all need to discern the truth.
I plan to select some of the verses presented in this video to use with my photography, such as the following:
The grave is empty. Risen King,
the One Who saves, to Him we sing.
There isn’t a more joyful thing
than walking where He leads.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “release” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. The grave could not hold Him captive. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 28:2-7 KJV – 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
“I know the Bible better than you do,” Brian taunted trying to rattle Mark’s brain.
“Even the devil knows the Bible better than I do,” Mark quickly countered unsure just how much the devil actually knew about anything.
“I am – NOT – the devil 😈 😈 😈!”
“How do you know the devil’s not running your month?” Mark wondered -unfortunately out-loud.
“How do – YOU – know 😠 😠 😠?”
Not having a good comeback for this, Mark wondered if perhaps the devil does know the Bible better than he does having heard it from every Tom, Dick and Harry he unsuccessfully tried to harass – not that such knowledge could ever, any more, do the devil any good.
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Denise offers the prompt word “rattle” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Matthew 4:5-6 KJV – 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Yesterday John Hartnett provided a model based on historic measurements collected by George F. Dodwell of the change in the earth’s tilt1 confirming the biblical chronology that Henry B. Smith, Jr argued for in 20182.
The date Hartnett’s model estimated for the flood event was 3154 ± 191 BC. That range excludes Ussher’s flood date of 2348 BC3 but Smith, Jr’s date of 3298 BC still fits.
If we use Smith, Jr’s chronology, that would put creation at about 5500 BC, Noah’s flood at about 3300 BC, the Tower of Babel at about 2850 BC, the call of Abraham in 2091 BC, the Exodus from Egypt in 1446 BC, Solomon crowned in 971 BC and the birth of Jesus in 2 BC.4
The reason for the discrepancy between Ussher’s and Smith, Jr’s dates is due to conflicting dates provided in the chronologies of Genesis 5 and 11 coming from different manuscript traditions of the Bible. Smith, Jr argued that the Hebrew manuscript which became the Masoretic text was modified in the first or second century after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD to void prophecies that Jesus could have been the Messiah. The Septuagint, however, preserved the original text, but the Masoretic text became the preferred source for modern bible translations.
Hartnett’s model not only excluded Ussher’s date, but it also estimated a date for something which happened affecting the tilt of the earth at a time which aligned with the biblical chronology that Smith, Jr has promoted.
Dale offers the prompt, up, down, sideways, for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
For the up direction, I chose clouds during a sunset.
For the down direction, I chose an ancient pavement which was so far down it was below the normal walking surface.
For the sideways direction, while waiting for a sunrise, I noticed the moon which thankfully my phone was able to capture clearly enough.
Simon leased a room above the cafe a block from the Charles Bridge. He told them he was a tourist and they told him how to get to Prague’s Old Town. Since they didn’t understand why he was alone nor why he tipped so well in the cafe, some speculated that something was going to happen.
However, while Simon was there nothing happened. Even after he left nothing much happened and nothing at all happened that could be linked back to him.
This story is a tale of what happens when nothing happens – or, look at it this way – from nothing you get nothing unless you have the ability to speak the words (which most of us unwittingly do) to curse or bless the unexpected into existence.
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Denise offers the prompt word “lease” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
This is my second story for the week. Those who speculate that I have nothing better to do may be right.
Genesis 1:3 KJV – And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
It strengthens us when we obey.
He guides us on the narrow way.
He leads us on that way today
and His voice I will follow.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “strength” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 7:13-14 KJV – 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 