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Isaiah 40:31. But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Search the Bible at BibleGateway. I decided to become an astrophysicist at the age of eight. I read all the physics and astronomy books in the children’s section of my library. My family supported my voracious appetite for knowledge. My teachers assigned me lots of extra-curricular projects in the social sciences, which eventually sparked my spiritual quest. In my last year of high school, I studied the Thirty Years’ War for one extra project. I wondered why the Catholics and Protestants shed so much blood over trivial doctrine. I posed tough questions to my teacher, who sent me off to the library to read books on comparative religions. Read More... Tunnel Vision. In 1971, the troubles in Northern Ireland were increasingly becoming a danger to me and to my six children. We listened to horror stories of suffering every day on the radio. Our personal horror story came the night I was attacked by two gunmen. One beat me while asking me questions about someone’s whereabouts. Although I wasn’t a Christian, I silently prayed for God to help me. Read More...
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| Written by Dorothy Valcarcel |
| Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:29 |
 In Joshua 2: 9, we find one of the most definitive statements of belief recorded in Scripture and what’s so fantastic is that these words came out of the mouth of a Canaanite harlot: “I know that the Lord has given you the land.” But this wasn’t all Rahab knew. Several verses later, in Joshua 2: 11, Rahab continues defining the God she knows: “For the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.” Click Here to continue.... |