Famous pictures showing man’s insatiable interest in our world

Pictures from the South Pole, the moon, the jungles of Africa and the heights of Machu Picchu. They all show how man has an insatiable desire to know his past and to know his world–a world created by God. Enjoy here.

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Judgment, darkness, evil

Click to enlarge!   HT:  Facets of Grace

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Praying for China

The world’s largest country has a new leader.  These pictures tell the story. Pray for the spread of the gospel and the work of Christ’s church in this land as you browse.

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The Harvest: beautiful, lots of hard work and some disappointment

I love the fall season. And you will also after looking at some pictures like this one from the Big Picture.

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How Great Thou Art: I see the stars

Award winning astronomy pictures seen here! Prepared to be wowed!

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Pursuing gold

Everyone seems to be pursuing gold these days, not only at the Olympics, but all around the world.

The Big Picture has 36 vivid images of people extracting, processing, refining, buying, selling and celebrating over gold.

While I was looking at them, this verse came to mind of something more valuable than gold:

“knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.” (1 Peter 1:18–19, ESV)

 

 

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Drought and downpour

We’ve had some–far but few between downpours this summer. The other day we had our first day of steady rain in weeks, maybe a few months.

Never been a farmer so I can’t imagine how so many are hurting this year.  From the Big Picture: Drought and downpour!

Looking at these pictures made me think of my soul as well.  Which type of pictures illustrate your life right now?  I hope it’s like the first pics but if it is more like the latter, I pray you may seek the Lord!  He will not forsake you. He will bring blessing in due season as you trust and obey Him.

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Pray for those affected by the Western US wildfires

Please pray for so many (at least 35,000 people) affected by the wildfires out west. Click here for more pics from the Big Picture.

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Annular solar eclipse pictures

From the Big Picture:

A rare annular eclipse – a ring of sunlight as the new moon, passing between Earth and sun, blocks most, but not all, of the sun’s disc. It is striking to see. Differing from a total solar eclipse, the moon in an annular eclipse appears too small to cover the sun completely, leaving a ring of fire effect around the moon. The eclipse cast its shallow path crossing the West from west Texas to Oregon then arcing across the northern Pacific Ocean to Tokyo, Japan.

See all 49 photos by clicking here.  

A sea lion wears a solar viewer during an annular solar eclipse at an aquarium in Tokyo, May 21, 2012. (Yomiuri Shimbun/Reuters) #

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This will make you thankful for what you have

One billion people live in abject poverty in this world–in slums.  Yes, one billion–that is no typo.

The Big Picture shows us what that looks like for some people.

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