Tag: Pennings

Tim Pennings: Cosmic distances

Did you experience the recent solar eclipse? Have you ever considered how special such an event is? Not because it happens only every few years, but because it happens at all. The moon and sun are just the right sizes and just the right distances from Earth that the apparent size of the moon is […]

Tim Pennings: Taking the Bible literally

I once heard a West Michigan minister challenge his listeners to recite the Apostles’ Creed without crossing their fingers behind their backs. His point: Biblical truth should be taken literally and believed fully. I found myself wondering what he thought of the Creed’s phrase, “he (Jesus) is seated at the right hand of the father.” […]