By embracing Christian symbolism, followers of Christ could find solace in everyday experiences. Throughout the Bible, various kinds of flowers are referenced; their presence reminds us that faith is rooted even in something as beautiful
Grow these hardy varieties of plants mentioned in God’s Word.
New York City is among the densest places in the world. Amidst all its activity any quiet spot is a source of welcome relief. One my favorite is the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Set on a full block in upper Manhattan. The Cathedral is an inclusive
Grow these hardy varieties of plants mentioned in God’s Word.
by Jennifer Poindexter Have you ever pondered the history in your herb garden? Chances are you haven’t. Most of us become so busy with growing a garden that we hardly stop to think about the history behind each plant. One resource we can use, to learn a little more about our plants, is the Bible. […]
What is a prayer garden and why would you need one? Find refreshment for your soul! create your very own personal prayer garden.
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A couple of months ago, I was passing through Elgin and took the opportunity to visit the Biblical Garden, which is the only one of its kind in Scotland. Having never visited before, I was rat…
By embracing Christian symbolism, followers of Christ could find solace in everyday experiences. Throughout the Bible, various kinds of flowers are referenced; their presence reminds us that faith is rooted even in something as beautiful
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When choosing a name for your garden, you will want something that has a lot of meaning for you. Here are some ideas for biblical garden names to get you started.
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When choosing a name for your garden, you will want something that has a lot of meaning for you. Here are some ideas for biblical garden names to get you started.
Many positive things come from gardening. The most obvious joy is at harvest time when you get to reap the fruits of your labor and enjoy fresh vegetables that are far superior than what's available at the store. But you also get to enjoy the beauty of a flower, and the bees and butterflies that gardens attract. Gardening is hard work but physical exercise is important to having a healthy life and body, and many have attested to the power of fresh air for clearing your mind and lungs. Not to mention the vitamin D the sunshine brings. We could also discuss the many, many benefits to our environment, communities, and personal health that come from growing even a little of our own food. But there is one other benefit: better understanding of Scripture. I believe in eating local. I love growing my own food. I'm happy to have a form of exercise that pays me in tomatoes and broccoli. But the best part about gardening is that it teaches me about Scripture. Where is the starting point for humanity's story? A garden YHWH walked in. Who had a deep fondness for agricultural illustrations? Yahusha. YHWH regularly spoke to the prophets in the same way. Job and King David and Yahusha insisted that creation had something to declare to us. The Promised Land was particularly exciting because of how well things grew there. Jonah learned of the mercy of YHWH through a plant that died. YHWH repeatedly uses plants and nature to help us understand him. But how can we consider the lily if we have never seen one? How can we have mustard seed-like faith if we don't know what that means? You don't have to dig a garden or grow all of your own food. You can learn even with a small flower bed or one pot of herbs in the windowsill. 25 Things Scripture Says About Gardening: My Father is the gardener. - John 15:1 - If we want to learn more about the nature and character of YHWH then it would help to learn about what gardeners do and how they work. And YHWH Elohim took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to work it and to guard it. - Beresheet 2:15 - I don't think YHWH is in favor of the 'efficiency' of factory farming and industrial food. From this passage we can see that YHWH intends mankind to both grow foods and flowers and to care for the earth. Listen, see, there went out a sower to sow.... - Mark 4:3 - Yahusha often spoke in parables about planting and growing. If a basic understanding of how things grow can give us a basic idea of what he was saying, then a better understanding will give us an even better idea. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is uncultivated, and were grafted contrary to nature into a tov olive tree, how much more shall these, who are cultivated branches, be grafted into their own olive tree as well? - Romans 11:24 - Did you know that olive branches can be cut off from the tree and 'dead' for years before being successfully grafted back into the tree? This passage becomes much richer when we know a little back story. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree. It shall be to YHWH for a Name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. - Isaiah 58:13 - We can look for signs from YHWH in the trees but we need to have some knowledge so we can recognize them. Bring forth fruits of perfect teshuvah. - Matthew 3:8 - Gardeners learn that the fruit is the evidence of what kind of plant it is. What kind of tree is that? It depends what fruit is growing. In the same way, what's going on in you is evidenced by the fruit in your life. I have smitten you with blight and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig eytzim and your olive eytzim increased, the creeping locust devoured them: yet you have not made teshuvah to Me, says YHWH. - Amos 4:9 - It's hard to understand how devastating blight is from the comfort of the supermarket. We can also see here that YHWH will use gardens and farms in order to turn the hearts of his people back to him. He told them another parable: The malchut ha shamayim is like a grain of mustard zera, which a man took, and sowed in his field. Indeed, mustard is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs. - Matthew 13:31-32a - The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed. This makes more sense once you witness a tiny seed sprout and its plant spread. And YHWH shall guide you continually, and satisfy your being in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of mayim, whose mayim fails not. - Isaiah 58:11 - How do you know you are walking in YHWH's guidance? Well, do you look like a watered garden or not? Then YHWH said, You have had pity on the plant, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. - Jonah 4:10 - To give Jonah some shade, YHWH causes a plant to quickly grow. When the plant withers and dies Jonah is taught of YHWH's love and mercy for the people of Nineveh. Ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you. - Job 8:12 - As Yahusha said, even rocks desire to call out in his praise. All of creation testifies to the glory of YHWH. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers. - Isaiah 1:8 - There are so many passages throughout the Prophets that are going to be very difficult, if not impossible to understand if we don't have a little bit of familiarity with gardening, farming, and vineyards. I am the vine, you are the netsarim. He that stays in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. - John 15:5 - Whenever YHWH or Yahusha likens themself to something, we would do well to learn more about what that is. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. - Vayikra 19:19 - There is more to this than not tampering with seeds. YHWH doesn't want us mixing ourselves with evil because it doesn't produce good fruit. For the land, which you go in to possess, is not as the land of Mitzrayim, from which you came out, where you sowed your zera, and watered it by foot, as a garden of herbs: But the land is a land of hills and valleys, and mayim to drink from the rain of the shamayim. - Deuteronomy 11:10-11 - Gardeners know the essential importance of water. In the Promised Land gardening would be easier and plants would flourish due to the abundant mayim. Plant gardens and eat their produce. - Jeremiah 29:5 - Another verse that leads me to believe that YHWH expects us to grow things. The earth brought out grass, and herb yielding zera after its kind, and fruit trees yielding fruit, whose zera was in itself, after its kind: and YHWH saw that it was tov. - Beresheet 1:12 - This is a passage that heirloom gardeners love. Save seeds from a squash and they will grow more squash next year. There are many spiritual applications to this of course. And I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine from them; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit from them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land I have given them, says YHWH your Elohim. - Amos 9:14-15 - Even at the restoration of the Twelve Tribes, there is gardening and planting to be done. For the sun rises with a burning heat, so that it withers the grass and the flower falls and is pretty appearance perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in the course of his chayim. - Jacob 1:11 - The life cycle of flowers teaches us about our own. So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that gives mayim anything; but YHWH who gives the increase. He that plants and he that gives water are echad: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. - 1 Corinthians 3:7-8 - Only YHWH can cause things to grow, but he does reward our hard work, both in the field and in his kingdom. Don't be deceived; YHWH is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap. - Galatians 6:7 - Gardeners know you can't expect lettuce to come from celery seeds and blueberries won't come from a grape vine. What you plant in the garden and in life is what you will get. For he loved the soil. - 2 Chronicles 26:10 - King Uzziah loved the soil in Carmel and cared for the vines, dug wells, and hired farmers. Consider the lilies and how they grow; they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say to you that Shlomo in all his tifereth was not dressed like one of these. - Luke 12:27 - If you want to be able to do what Yahusha says here and consider the lily, then you will need to be familiar with them. And they heard the voice of YHWH Elohim walking in the garden in the cool of the day. - Beresheet 3:8 - I love this verse. Maybe we should look for him there. There was a garden, and he entered with his disciples. - John 18:1 - Yahusha spent much time outdoors and in gardens. He didn't head to a coffee shop or get online when he needed to pray and get refreshed. There's something we can learn from that. The most significant piece of this to me is that YHWH and Yahusha both love gardens. Song of Songs is a further example of this. Whether or not you try your hand and growing something this year, I hope this gives you fresh inspiration to visit a botanical garden, spend time in your backyard, visit a strawberry farm or whatever else fits into your life that will help you grow in understanding of the Word.
Visiting God's Garden: For the past six weeks I've visited with God in a garden. We spent hours together in the garden he planted in my heart.
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The garden is where Eve first met God. And I enjoy meeting God in the garden too, every time I pull a weed, pick a tomato, or deadhead a spent flower.
How can something exist if God didn’t make it?
One of the claims of Scripture most ridiculed by skeptics is the Bible’s matter-of-fact assertion that ancient people once lived for hundreds of years. Although creationists have already documented extrabiblical historical and cultural confirmation of this extreme longevity,1 scientific corroboration of this claim has been, till now, largely absent. Yes, creationists have made good arguments that this longevity is scientifically plausible,2,3 but scientific evidence that such longevity had
Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) is a hardy perennial herb that grows about two feet tall. The aromatic leaves are dark green and pointed. Because hyssop is a sub-shrub you can use it as a border plant in gardens. Spread young hyssop plants 1-2 feet apart in a spot with full sun and good drainage. This
Every year spring comes gently in on the breeze to warm both the winter-chilled earth and hearts. Mine included. With every spring my mind seems to take a sudden shift towards the garden. I image planting vegetable seeds, prepping beds for flowers, creating a new herb garden, and much more. This time of year fills […]
One of the claims of Scripture most ridiculed by skeptics is the Bible’s matter-of-fact assertion that ancient people once lived for hundreds of years. Although creationists have already documented extrabiblical historical and cultural confirmation of this extreme longevity,1 scientific corroboration of this claim has been, till now, largely absent. Yes, creationists have made good arguments that this longevity is scientifically plausible,2,3 but scientific evidence that such longevity had
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Explore 10 inspiring examples of submission in the Bible to deepen your faith and understanding of spiritual obedience and growth.
