God's Glory Church

“Let these words of mine be… close to the Lord day and night.” — 1 Kings 8:59 The North American Nuthatch is an amazing bird. Every year, she prepares her reserves for the winter, forming small caches of white pine seeds (four or five seeds each). A bird can prepare up to 500 seeds in (…)

“The star rises from Jacob, and the scepter rises from Israel.” — Numbers 24:17 William Shakespeare was a master of imagery. Actor Barry Craft skillfully uses this “trait” of the great playwright in his book “Shakespeare’s Image Generator”. The book contains various allusions and indirect reproaches found in Shakespeare’s plays. For example, instead of saying: (…)

“If you don’t believe, you won’t stand.” — Isaiah 7:9 In 1998, the Nokia company became the world leader in the production of mobile phones. In 1999, its revenue amounted to almost four billion dollars. However, by 2011, sales fell, and the once popular brand was bought by Microsoft. One of the causes of the (…)

“God sent His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh.” — Romans 8:3 At a garage sale, I saw a Christmas installation in a crumpled cardboard box. When I picked up the figure of the baby Jesus, I was amazed at the craftsmanship of all the details. (…)

“Do not give me poverty and wealth! Feed me with the bread intended for me.” — Proverbs 30:8 In the movie “Fiddler on the Roof”, the main character Tevye talks frankly with God about the way the world is set up: “You made a lot of poor people. I understand, of course, that there is (…)

“I bring to my memory your unfeigned faith, which first settled in your grandmother Loida and your mother Eunice.” — 2 Timothy 1:5 A study conducted among believers in the United States in 2019 showed that the spiritual development of many respondents was greatly influenced by their mothers and grandmothers. About two-thirds of those from (…)

“[Jonathan] was upset for David because his father had wronged him.” — 1 Samuel 20:34 The English poet William Cooper (1731–1800) found a friend in the person of pastor John Newton (1725–1807), a former slave trader. Cooper suffered from depression and attempted suicide several times. Newton visited him periodically, and they walked for a long (…)

“Where is the road that the light dwells on? And the darkness – where is its place..?” — Job 38:19 William Shatner played Captain Kirk in the TV series “Star Trek”, but he was not ready for a real space flight. He called his eleven-minute suborbital flight “the most impressive experience imaginable.” After exiting the (…)

“Death engulfed in victory!” — 1 Corinthians 15:54 The story of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges tells about the Roman soldier Mark Rufe, who drank water from a secret river and became immortal. However, over time, Mark realizes that immortality is not at all what he imagined it to be. A life without limits (…)

“Why, my soul, are you sad?… Have hope in God.” — Psalm 42:5 “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Morning” is an unusual Christmas carol based on a poem written by Henry Longfellow in 1863. Instead of the expected celebration and joy, the lyrics of the song resemble crying. “I am sad from the noise (…)