Delivered on Christmas Day at St. Cuthbert’s Church Port Elizabeth South Africa
Ivan Edelson 2023 Christmas Sermon
Theology
The Lesson of Concentric Circles
The Resurrection the Evidence
A Lawyer looks at the evidence.
Listen to the most recent episode of my podcast: The Evidence for the Resurrection of Christ. https://anchor.fm/john-bartels/episodes/The-Evidence-for-the-Resurrection-of-Christ-e1uru4l
The Window: Have you seen it?
“The shortest essay in the recently rereleased collection, Confessions of a Heretic, is entitled “Effing the Ineffable.” In it, the late Roger Scruton speaks of the brief and indescribable glimpses we human beings are sometimes afforded of a world of meaning that seems to exist on a plane just outside of our reach. In these moments arising from contemplation or from the experience of great beauty, we sense that the deep mysteries of existence are somehow brought before our eyes, but they still defy our attempt at understanding. “When they occur it is as though, on the winding ill-lit stairway of our life, we suddenly come across a window, through which we catch sight of another and brighter world—a world to which we belong but which we cannot enter.””
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Get Ready to be Amazed – Really Amazed
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I guarantee that if you don’t know about the Golden Ratio, when you learn about it you will think about it and remember it for the rest of your life. You will want to tell others about it.
Please follow steps 1-5 in order. It is best to look at the video (step 6) last.
1. Look at this sequence of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987
2. Get out your calculator,
3. Notice that each number is the sum of the two preceding it. i.e. 0+1=1, 1+1=2, 2+1=3, 3+2=5 and so on….
4. Notice that if you divide any number by its preceding number you get 1.6*
e,g, 21/13 = 1.62*
e.g. 8/ 5 = 1.60*
e.g. 987/610 = 1.62*
5, look at this shell. Note the spirals.
6. . Now watch this excellent video. It will blow your mind. Watch to the end.
You may have to click on the video while it is loading. The link is: https://youtu.be/wntIMD9wbR0
Please do not miss watching the whole video.
Footnote
Calling all photographers. I know you will enjoy and use what the excellent video teaches.
John Bartels
What does this tell you? Just look at all the nebula!
To God be the Glory
Theology: A Very Sensible Box
Do we trust God and at the same time have many unanswered questions about Him and how He works? Leslie Weatherhead offers us some very sensible advice: Leave those questions in a box marked: “Awaiting Further Light.”
Sensible advice indeed, for “now we see through a glass darkly….” (1 Cor. 13,12)
The late Leslie D Weatherhead C.B.E. M. A. PhD. D. Litt. D. D. was Minister at the City Temple, London. He was President of the Methodist Conference and Hon. Chaplain to Her late Majesty’s Forces .He is the author of many books including “The Christian Agnostic”, where the above advise is recorded.
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