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Just found 2 moths in my Skinner Trap this April. I think a lot of people in the UK have had a similar experience - the nights have been quite chilly and neither bats nor moths are too impressed.
So far I’ve only recorded Soprano and Common Pipistrelles with just one Leisler bat recording - nothing more exotic yet.
Moths safely returned to garden
Co. Londonderry H40
Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. - Hebrews 10:23 (NLT)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
10:19-25 The apostle having closed the first part of the epistle, the doctrine is applied to practical purposes. As believers had an open way to the presence of God, it became them to use this privilege. The way and means by which Christians enjoy such privileges, is by the blood of Jesus, by the merit of that blood which he offered up as an atoning sacrifice. The agreement of infinite holiness with pardoning mercy, was not clearly understood till the human nature of Christ, the Son of God, was wounded and bruised for our sins. Our way to heaven is by a crucified Saviour; his death is to us the way of life, and to those who believe this, he will be precious. They must draw near to God; it would be contempt of Christ, still to keep at a distance. Their bodies were to be washed with pure water, alluding to the cleansings directed under the law: thus the use of water in baptism, was to remind Christians that their conduct should be pure and holy. While they derived comfort and grace from their reconciled Father to their own souls, they would adorn the doctrine of God their Saviour in all things. Believers are to consider how they can be of service to each other, especially stirring up each other to the more vigorous and abundant exercise of love, and the practice of good works. The communion of saints is a great help and privilege, and a means of stedfastness and perseverance. We should observe the coming of times of trial, and be thereby quickened to greater diligence. There is a trying day coming on all men, the day of our death.
The Hebrew Music Museum is located in Kikar Hamusica (“music square”), in Jerusalem. The museum displays musical instruments from across the world and allows visitors to enjoy hearing their sounds and learning about the instruments history.
Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
Ahava (1978) bronze sculpture, LOVE in Hebrew by Robert Indiana (1928- ), Billy Rose Sculpture Garden, Israel Museum in Jerusalem
Orthosia Gothica - We found this by the rubber seal on the car boot. It didn't appear to be alive but it clung to a fine twig and I put it on a piece of slate to photograph during the day. It moved about and had a drink from the rain on the slate. Released after dark tonight in a safe dry place.
© Jo De Baerdemaeker, Antwerpen, March 2010
Punches from the 'Gros Hebrieu Fort Gros' typeface, cut for Plantin by Guillaume Le Bé in 1562.
(located at the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerpen)
Psalm 112:1 assures us: “Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!” “Greatly delights” translates Hebrew words that can be literally rendered, “takes the highest degree of pleasure.”
Hebrew parallelism uses the first line to explain the second. Thus, the person who fears and reverences God is the person who “greatly delights” in his will and word. Such a person is “blessed” by our Lord.
Obedience to God is the necessary precondition to understanding the ways of God. Oswald Chambers: “All God’s revelations are sealed until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them open by philosophy or thinking. Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes.”
Obedience does not earn God’s revelation–it positions us to receive it. That’s because faith in God, like any relationship, requires a commitment that transcends the evidence and becomes self-validating.
It is illogical to insist on proof for that which can only be experienced. You cannot prove you should attend a particular college or take a particular job until you do. You cannot prove you should get married until you get married. Some categories of truth are relational by definition. They cannot be understood until they are experienced.
If we view Scripture as advice we can accept or reject rather than divine commands we must follow, we will never comprehend its depths. But if we decide to obey God’s word, we will then understand his word.
Do you expect to meet God today?
Consider another factor: Perhaps the religious leaders failed to hear new revelation from God because they did not expect new revelation from God. It had been so long since they’d heard a true prophet that they limited God’s truth to what they already knew.
We can make the same mistake.
If we read the Bible but our lives are no different, we have not truly heard from God. If we pray and remain the same, we have not truly prayed. We cannot encounter the living Lord of the universe and be unchanged.
A young pastor once complained to Charles Spurgeon that few people were responding to his sermons.
The “Prince of Preachers” asked him, “You don’t expect people to respond every time you preach, do you?”
The young man assured him that he did not.
“That’s why they don’t,” Spurgeon replied.
Do you expect to meet God today in his word and worship? Do you expect him to answer your prayers and to move in power? Do you expect him to do in our world what he did in the biblical world?
“The three most terrible truths of our existence”
Hurricane Michael shows us that we need more of God than most of us have experienced. To experience all of God there is, we must understand his ways and know his provision.
Here’s the good news: To the degree that we obey his word, we can fully understand his ways. To the degree that we expect him to provide, we can truly know his provision.
Last week, we had no idea the hurricane would be so devastating. What don’t we know about next week?
Anne Lamott: “If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.”
When we face circumstances beyond our control, we have three options: We can continue to fight as though we are in control, give up and accept what comes, or work alongside the One who is in control. Only one brings true peace.
Choose wisely.
-Jim Denison
Wonderful store; despite being closed the one dollar books still out. There was an envelope pinned to the wall for payment.
Book buyers are honest folks. Did you know this? What country reads the most books? What country has most PhDs? What country has most writers? Israel! Did you know this?
I am going back when open. Thanks for the invite David....
Each day as I spend time in His presence, let this thought be with me: Christ is all.
Andrew Murray and Barbour Publishing, 199 Treasures of Wisdom on Talking with God (Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour, 2007).
Hebrew lettering appears in a frieze above the Mudéjar stucco reliefs on a wall of the Córdoba Synagogue (1315) in the Judería or old Jewish quarter of Córdoba, Spain.
Hebrews 9:27 KJV
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment.
Hebrews 9:28 KJV
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Landscape in Hebrew is Nof, which means also the Higher part of the tree. In this shot (Jerusalem from Giloh) the two meanings merge.
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נוף בעברית
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המילה נוף מסמנת גם את המראה הנשקף ממקום גבוה וגם את החלק הגבוה יותר של העץ. בצילום הזה (ירושלים משכונת גילה) שתי המשמעויות האלה מתלכדות
Abandoned and boarded up Blackpool United Hebrew Synagogue built 1916
This synagogue was built between 1916-26. It has the inscription 'BLACKPOOL UNITED / HEBREW SYNAGOGUE / 5676 ERECTED 1926'. The number 5676 is the equivalent of 1926 in the Hebrew Calendar.
The Church of the Annunciation (Hebrew: כנסיית הבשורה, Arabic: كنيسة البشارة, Greek: Εκκλησία του Ευαγγελισμού της Θεοτόκου, Ekklisía tou Evangelismoú tis Theotókou), sometimes also referred to as the Basilica of the Annunciation, is a Catholic Church in Nazareth, in northern Israel. It was established over the site where the Catholic tradition holds to be the house of Virgin Mary, and where angel Gabriel appeared to her and announced that she would conceive and bear the Son of God, Jesus – an event known as the Annunciation.[1]
Late Roman/Byzantine shrine[edit]
Christian tradition has held that a structure was commissioned by Emperor Constantine I, whose mother, Saint Helena, helped to found churches commemorating important events in Jesus Christ's life. The Church of the Annunciation was founded around the same time as the Church of the Nativity (the birthplace) and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (the tomb). Some version of it was known to have still been in existence around 570 AD.[2]
A competing view is that the Church was the site of the Holy House of Loreto, which, according to Christian legend, was transported by angels across the sea to Loreto, Italy, at the time of the Muslim conquest.[3]
Crusader church[edit]
The second church was built over the ruins of the Byzantine era church during the Crusades, following the conquest of Nazareth by Tancred in 1102. The Crusader era church was never fully completed. Five Romanesque capitals carved by artists from northern France, and discovered during excavations in 1909, had not yet been installed in 1187 when news of Saladin's victory in the Battle of Hittin reached the city.[4] Saladin granted permission to Franciscan priests to remain in Nazareth to oversee services at the church.[4]
In 1260, Baybars and his Mamluk army destroyed the church during their attack on Nazareth.[4]
Mamluk and early Ottoman period[edit]
A small number of Franciscans managed to stay in Nazareth until the fall of Acre in 1291. In the three centuries that followed, the Franciscans were in and out of Nazareth, depending on the local political situation, which was constantly in flux. Franciscan accounts of this period document their expulsion in 1363, their return in 1468 and a massacre of some of their members in 1542. Local Christian families with Franciscan support took care of the holy site even during this difficult period.[5] Emir Fakhr ad-Din granted the Franciscans permission to return to Nazareth and the church ruins in 1620, at which time they constructed a small structure to enclose the holy grotto that is venerated as the house of Mary.
In 1730, Dahir al-Umar permitted construction of a new church, which became a central gathering place for Nazareth Latin community. The church was enlarged in 1877.
20th-century basilica[edit]
The old church was completely demolished in 1954 to allow for the construction of a new basilica. The new basilica was designed by the Italian architect Giovanni Muzio, and built by the Israeli building firm Solel Boneh during the years 1960–1969.[6] The Chief Engineer at this project was Ing. Shlomo Lopatin (Aluf) who was dedicated to the Basilica building process for more than 10 years, and it was indeed his life-project. It is built in a style sometimes characterised as Italian Brutalism.
Pope Paul VI celebrated Mass in the new church during his trip to the Holy Land in 1964[7] The basilica was completed in 1969.
Used by the Latin parish, it remains under the control of the Franciscans. It is the largest Christian Church building or sanctuary in the Middle East under the supervision of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.[8]
Pope John Paul II made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land for the Great Jubilee of 2000 and celebrated Mass at the Basilica of the Annunciation on March 25, 2000.[9][10] source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_Annunciation
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
(Word is a series of designs for books of the Bible. This is Word: Hebrews. Find out more about Word.)
First off, last week I made a shameless plea for folks to share my Word project via Twitter, Facebook and whatever other social devices you use (that includes talking to a live person using your mouth to form words). Thanks to all of you who did some social sharing! I'm really hoping to build some momentum as we hit our Biblical home stretch, so please consider sharing my Word design page with your friends, enemies and everyone in between.
Enough with that, let's Word....
Spoiler alert! It's not about beer.
I was pretty excited when I got to the book of Hebrews, because I though it was gonna be a mini-bio of a guy who makes his own craft beer. Alas, that is not what Hebrews is about. There's a famous part in Hebrews 11 where the author gives a roll call of a bunch of faith superheroes and that is what caught my design eye this week.
Just wanted to remind you how much you suck by dropping this list of awesome people.
I remember feeling frustrated by this passage when I was younger. I always read it as "Here's a bunch of people with superfaith. They are awesome. Much more awesome than you will ever be, so don't even think about it. Aim low. You might, might, be able to be the one that gets the privilege of washing their capes in heaven." But here's the thing, if I really look back to all these "heroes of faith," I find out that they didn't always act like superheroes. Noah got drunk and naked before passing out. Abraham lied and said his wife was actually his sister and let her be taken into the Pharaoh's house (probably a harem!). David murdered a guy so he could take his wife. And Samson? We've already covered the fact that he is a complete moron.
Crazy Belief
In the first verse of the chapter, we're given the clearest definition of faith found in the Bible.
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
That is what sets the stage for the hero roll call. As I look through the passage again with that first verse in mind, it seems like the thing that made all those peeps heroes were that, at some point, they believed what God said even though it didn't make sense. God told Noah to build a gigantic ark because he was going to cover the entire earth with water. God told timid Moses to go up against a powerful nation and demand that his people be freed. God told young, teenage, acne-faced David to go up against warrior giant. Despite the odds against them, they all said "that sounds crazy, but if God said do it, I'll do it."
Let's recap... Heroes are not flawless. Sometimes they act like idiots. But sometimes believe God when it doesn't make sense. Sounds like there's a chance for us to be heros too.
sooc.
Becca
I know I don't have all the answers
And I have wasted many chances
To prove to you a faith that lives inside
I'm praying there will be a breakthrough
Cause I can't be the one to save you
God knows how many times I've tried
I can't explain
But I can't deny
So many times for you I've cried
And to see you on your knees tonight
I can't make it clearer
Put it any other way
If you can't see the simple truth I do
Then there's nothing in this world that's left to say
But Jesus loves you
Hebrew Character moth, Orthosia gothica. 2 April 2024. Ealing, London, England, UK.
It takes its name from the dark mark on the forewing, possibly the Hebrew letter nun נ
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This is a Hebrew phrase that means "belonging to God" (literally, "to Yahweh") taken from the Tanak (Isaiah 44:5). I just got this tattoo done last night (7/16/05)
Scanned from Kodak Tri-X 400
(shot at ISO 40 using a dark red filter)
Chicago, IL
August 2021
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The Hebrew Music Museum is located in Kikar Hamusica (“music square”), in Jerusalem. The museum displays musical instruments from across the world and allows visitors to enjoy hearing their sounds and learning about the instruments history.
Hebrews 9:27-28 - 'Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.'
A Beautiful March Pale
Well after a disaster with the trap yesterday night, I managed to fix it and run it last night instead.
I am pretty damn glad I did as it yielded another 3 new species for the year including my second Pale Pinion for the garden.
I was rather lacking on the Noctuid department until now, where I found four Hebrew Characters inside the trap.
The temperature tonight could be quite cool so I will return to trapping on Monday night all being well and with no more mishaps!
Catch Report - 07/03/15 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
1x Pale Pinion [NFY]
1x Oak Beauty [NFY]
1x Dotted Border [NFY]
4x Hebrew Character
2x March Moth
Micro Moths
2x Emmelina monodactyla