Sandyknowes Blog

Living beside the busiest roundabout in Northern Ireland gives plenty of opportunity for watching the world go by. Sandyknowes Blog is the personal blog of Niall Lockhart (minister of Ballyhenry). Pull in and have a read…

Read: Psalm 105 vs 23-45

The word ‘remember’ is a Bible word. It’s used over 200 times in our Bibles and it’s one of those words that is literally in the Bible from the beginning (Genesis 8:1) through to the very end (Revelation 3:3). 

Read: Psalm 105 vs 1-22

I’ve all kinds of books in my study. Tucked away in the corner of a shelf is a book that makes me smile. It’s entitled ‘Me, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and it’s dated 1976 (I was three years old). On first view the story is a familiar one with familiar charcters, snow white, Doc, Grumpy, Sneezy etc. But then suddenly out of the page jumps my name! ‘I’m Niall’ said the boy. Then he took Dopey to meet Fiona’ (my sister).

Read: Psalm 104 vs 19-35

Yesterday we were reading the first part of Psalm 104, and we saw how those verses celebrate God’s creation; what he has created and what He is creating all around us, day by day. Today as we enter into the second part of the Psalm this theme of celebration and wonder continues as the Psalmist looks further up and further out, marvelling at all that God has made.

Read: Psalm 104 vs 1-18

Have you ever been in a bookshop, or been searching through Amazon, and you come across a book that you’ve never seen before? You take a minute or two to skim over the first page or two and it gives you a feel for what the book is going to be all about.

Picking up the Bible we are met by these opening lines (Genesis 1:1):

‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’

Pages