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June 11 “The servant of the Lord must be gentle.” (2 Tim. 2:24.) WHEN God conquers us and takes all the flint out of our nature, and we get deep visions into the Spirit of Jesus we then see as never before the great rarity gentleness of spirit in this dark and unheavenly world.The gracesContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

11 JUNE Abundant grace ‘Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.’ Isaiah 40:2SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Ephesians 1:1–10 She has received double. Not, as some suppose, that her afflictions had alreadyContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

Genesis 1:1–2 states, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” The gap theory is the view that God created a fully functional earth with all animals, includingContinue reading “What is the Gap Theory?”

Progressive creationism (also called “process creation”) is the belief that God created the heavens and the earth over a period of billions of years, not the six 24-hour days that is the basis for the traditional creationism view. Progressive creationists can be liberal or conservative in their theological belief system, but they generally agree onContinue reading “What is progressive creationism and is it biblical?”

The historical creationist view affirms that the creation account in Genesis 1—2 is indeed intended to be a historical account—not poetry or mythology. At the same time, the historical creationism interpretation relieves much of the tension between modern science and Scripture that seems to be inherent in the young-earth creationist view, which also uses aContinue reading “What is historical creationism?”