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Many who have not the privilege of living near them, will likely at some point travel to see the mountains. Rightly so. Immense, beautiful, towering, majestic, rugged, wild, and permanent, they are awesome visual spectacles the Lord created for us to enjoy, and also as enduring earthly pictures of s
The most common igneous rock on earth's surface (and therefore also of mountains) is granite. In geological terms, an igneous rock is described as molten (liquified) magma that has solidified and hardened over time, whether slowly below the crust of the earth or rapidly when spewed out of the bowels
Look to the Mountains by Le Grand Cannon, Jr. The story begins in Kettleford, New Hampshire, in the year 1769. Whit Livingstone shyly courts Melissa Butler and before they take the marriage vow, goes up the Merrimac River to find a new place to live. Melissa waits for him three months, after which h
Mountains are also a symbol of steadfastness, so much so that God illustrates His faithfulness using mountains—”The mountains may depart, but my kindness shall not depart from thee” (Isa. 54:10). We can add that the mountains symbolize immovable strength. What in all this creation can overcome mount
There is of course no mountain on earth high enough anyway from which to see all the Kingdoms of the earth not even among the mighty Himalayas. My own opinion is that this was a special mountain fabricated by the Devil especially for this temptation. Whatever, the Devil takes Christ into a high moun
The mountain tunes were simple, usually 2/4 or 4/4 meter, the voice often gliding from one note to the next. Accompaniment was provided by fiddles. Lyrics largely centered on the personal woes and tragedies of a backwoods people.
However, this exciting victory won’t be remembered as well as will the thrill of playing a soft ball game in the mountains, with peaks towering on four sides, massive cliffs extending everywhere, and mere midget man in the middle. The ball game being over, most of us decided to take the aerial tramw
I have traveled to the Rocky Mountains, and a more majestic and awe-inspiring sight I have yet to see. To stand in the shadow of a towering purple peak makes one humble; it makes one realize that man, compared to nature, much less to God, is really quite insignificant, in spite of his boastings of
It is also a word for the discouraged and disheartened. Perhaps a great mountain stands over against us, one that is in our eyes insurmountable except with difficulty, where is the shortage of power, and lack of wisdom? Where now shall help be sought? Who shall roll off the impossible stone, the mou
Mountains delectable they now ascend Where Shepherds be, who to them do commend Alluring things, with signs of caution dear: Pilgrims are steady kept by faith and fear. These mountains belong to the Lord of the Holy Hill and are the mountains of Israel in Emmanuel’s Land. The mountain sides were