Tuesday, 18 December, 2018

Day: July 31, 2015

Cures From Evil Impulse

Posted on Friday, 31 July, 2015Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Romans 7:12 Jewish teachers said that repentance and learning the law were the only present cures for the evil impulse; here Paul replies that knowing moral truth had not freed him from sin. But Judaism also believed that in the day of judgment the evil impulse would be eradicated. As

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Persecution Of Christians

Posted on Friday, 31 July, 2015Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Persecution Of Christians This long-read article summarized the scale of attacks on Christians in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. It has alarmed organisations that monitor religious persecution, with most reporting a significant deterioration in recent years. Read Article Here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/27/dying-for-christianity-millions-at-risk-amid-rise-in-persecution-across-the-globe Pray For The Persecuted Church Here:

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Sea Slugs

Posted on Friday, 31 July, 2015Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Sea Slugs Sea slug is a common name which is applied to some marine invertebrates or marine gastropod mollusks, that over time have lost their shells, or have a greatly reduced shell or an internal shell. Nudibranchs are a large group of marine gastropods which have no shell at all,

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Letting God Be God

Posted on Friday, 31 July, 2015Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Letting God Be God If we truly believe in the existence of Yahweh, a colossal shift at the core of our being ought to commence as the centre of gravity moves from self to God. But alas, our deeply entrenched self-centredness keeps reinforcing our agnostic thinking affecting our behaviour and

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Cepheus: Trunk to Bubble.
Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo. Star clusters, glowing nebulae and dark dust clouds abound in Cepheus, the royal constellation of the northern hemisphere spanning about 17 degrees. At the lower left, the large emission nebula catalogued as IC 1396, is hundreds of light-years across and about 3,000 light-years distant, containing a dark, winding, tendril-shaped feature known as the Elephant's Trunk. Near the top middle, the bright nebula is NGC 7380. At the upper right lies NGC 7635 (the Bubble Nebula) and star cluster M52. Associated with star formation, the sites are telltale markers along the region's complex of giant molecular clouds.

December 18: The Moon passes 5° south of Uranus (image above), 4h UT (11 PM EST).

December 20: Jupiter passes 5° north of Antares, 2h UT (9 PM EST).

December 21: Mercury passes 6° north of Antares, 8h UT (3 AM EST).

December 21: Mercury passes 0.9° north of Jupiter, 15h UT (10 AM EST).

December 21: Summer Solstice occurs at 22h23m UT (5:23 PM EST).

December 22: Full Moon occurs at 17h49m UT (12:49 AM EST).

December 24: The Moon is at perigee (361,061 km from Earth), 9h49m UT (4:49 AM EST).

Credit: Astronomy.

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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