He put his face between his knees and said ‘Go up now and look towards the sea’


Some many years ago our daughter, Hannah, came home from school and said to my wife and me “Xi asked me whether I would go to China with her in the summer, she is visiting her grandmother, but I said no!”

Hannah’s comment prompted some discussion between the three of us which included me asking her “Why did you say no?” She said, “Because I

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God does not care! Ps 14

Only a fool says there is no God

The concept of atheism, as we know it and talk about it in the Twenty First Century, is not what the Psalmist has in mind when he says “Only fools think there is no God.”1

The culture of the Ancient Near East (ANE) had nothing akin to today’s atheistic conception that there is no spiritual realm, that no God or god’s exist.2 The ANE was dominated by a beliefs, that involved a multitude of

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