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John 6:35, 41-51

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... he quoted Saint Paul's own testimony to Timothy, "I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." (See 2 Timothy 1:12 KJV). Add to Michael Faraday the names of Roger Bacon, Francis Bacon, Gregor Mendel, Rene Descartes, Nicolas Copernicus, Blaise Pascal, Louis Pasteur, George Washington Carver, and a host of other leading scientists from every age whose discoveries have advanced human life for generation after generation. They were ...

2. Where Have All the Shepherds Gone?

Mark 6:30-44

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James Weekley

... all hidden charges. The language of salvation is the language of love. Love communicates freely because we become its mouthpiece, and hands, and feet. In that sense, we pay our dues by giving his love its proper due toward hurting others. Michael Faraday, an early pioneer of electromagnetic current, once addressed a convocation of scientists. For an hour he held the audience spellbound with his lecture on the nature of the magnet. After he had finished, he received a thundering ovation. The Prince of ...

3. Restlessness

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James Weekley

Michael Faraday, an early pioneer of electromagnetic current, once addressed a convocation of scientists. For an hour he held the audience spellbound with his lecture on the nature of the magnet. After he had finished, he received a thundering ovation. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, stood to congratulate him. The applause thundered again. Just as quickly, a deadened silence pervaded the audience. Faraday had left. It was the hour of a mid-week prayer service in a little church of which he was ...

4. What Good Is It?

Humor

When Michael Faraday invented the first electric motor, he wanted the interest and backing of the British Prime Minister, William Gladstone. So, Faraday took the crude model a little wire revolving around a magnet and showed it to the statesman. Gladstone was obviously not interested. "What good is it?" he asked Faraday. "Someday, you will be able to tax it," replied the great scientist.

5. Reach Out

Mark 5:21-43

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Harold H. Lentz

... to international acclaim; his father was a well-known drunkard and his mother was sickly, afflicted with tuberculosis. Michael Faraday was born over a stable where his father carried on the trade of a blacksmith, and his mother earned money as a ... cleaning woman. With only a second grade education Michael Faraday became one of the most productive and famous scientists of all time. His discoveries in the field of electricity are considered ...

6. Midnight Turned Into High Noon

Isaiah 42:10-17, Isaiah 42:18-25

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Barbara Brokhoff

... own dear child." Doubts come to great saints and to people like ourselves, but that does not mean we are lost forever in the night of our distrust. Our unbelief can change to radiant faith. When Michael Faraday, the great scientist, lay dying, a friend asked him, "What are your speculations?" Gently, Faraday replied, "Speculations? I have none. I know Whom I have believed. I rest my soul upon certainties!" Dark demons of doubt cannot live in Calvary’s radiance! St. Martin of Tours was seated in his cell ...

7. A Sure Path to the NFL

1 John 2:28--3:10

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King Duncan

... know for sure what eternal life will be like, but we know that its source is found in God’s presence and power. Author Philip Yancey tells the story of the great scientist Sir Michael Faraday, whose work contributed to the world’s understanding of electromagnetism. When Sir Michael was dying, some journalists questioned him as to his speculations about life after death. “Speculations!” he said, “I know nothing about speculations. I’m resting on certainties. ‘I know that my redeemer lives, and ...

8. God's Marvelous Easter Chemistry

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Editor James S. Hewett

A workman of the great chemist Michael Faraday accidentally knocked a silver cup into a solution of acid. It was promptly dissolved, eaten up by the acid. The workman was terribly disturbed by the accident. The chemist came in and put a chemical into the jar, and shortly all the silver was precipitated to the bottom. The shapeless ...

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