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Believe Our Report - Sep 6, 2023
/article/believe-our-reportBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - “Who hath believed our report?” (Isaiah 53:1) In Isaiah’s Suffering Servant passage, the last lines of Isaiah 52 belong with Isaiah 53: “Kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told...
Behold, My Servant - Sep 5, 2023
/article/behold-my-servantBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - “His visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men.” (Isaiah 52:14) The last three verses of Isaiah 52 begin the well-known Suffering Servant passage (Isaiah 52:13–53:12). The...
Is the Earth Round? - Aug 31, 2023
/article/earth-roundBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - Some readers might think the answer to this question is so obvious that maybe we’re offering it as a kind of joke—but it’s no joke. A number of people seem to actually believe the earth is flat, a view that a few NBA stars have...
Put Off the Old, Put On the New - Aug 10, 2023
/article/off-old-put-newBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - “But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth...seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man.” (Colossians 3:8-10) Paul sets a...
From the Beginning - Aug 2, 2023
/article/from-beginningBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20) One reason we...
Faith, Hope, and Love in Step - Jul 6, 2023
/article/faith-hope-love-stepBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” (1 Corinthians 13:13) Love, rendered as “charity” in this verse, happens when we decide to serve others without regard to...
Big Thicket National Preserve: Pitcher Plants and Busy Bees - Jun 30, 2023
/article/big-thicket-national-preserve-pitcherBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - In the early 1800s, pioneers of Southeast Texas initially avoided Big Thicket. Its more than three million acres embraced dense forests, swamps, and few people. Subsistence farmers soon penetrated the thicket in search of solitude. They traded...
After His Own Heart - Jun 3, 2023
/article/after-his-own-heartBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - “The LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people.” (1 Samuel 13:14) Here, Samuel the prophet tells King Saul that Yahweh plans to supplant him with a better...
Does Iron Toast Union Rescue Long Ages? - May 18, 2023
/article/iron-toast-unionBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - The puzzle persists after all these years. On the one hand, biochemists perform decay rate studies that show biochemicals cannot last a million years in the best of conditions. On the other hand, paleontologists keep finding biochemicals in...
Human Neurons with 'Tricks Up Their Sleeves' - May 4, 2023
/article/neurons-with-tricksBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - Who isn’t curious, at some level at least, about how human brains process all the complicated inputs and outputs that our daily lives require? Neurobiologists take that curiosity to the top floor. Their recent discovery of a new function...