Author Archives: Bert Hielema

Co-owning the Earth

November 2010 Build houses and plant gardens and eat what they produce…… Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, for if it prospers, you too … Continue reading

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co-owning the earth

October 2010 Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much. (Luke 16:10) There are seven (7) billion of us precious people populating this planet. Among these many mouths and brains there are far too few … Continue reading

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co-owning the earth

September 2010 Could this be true? Could the use of carbon fuel, extracted from deep into the earth, whether coal or crude, be compared to the apple in Eden, that fateful fruit that set us off on the wrong track? … Continue reading

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co-owning the earth

DO ANIMALS HAVE RIGHTS? But ask the animals, and they will teach you; or the birds of the air and they will tell you; or ask the plants of the earth, and they will instruct you.  … In his hands is the … Continue reading

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LAMENT FOR PLANET EARTH Isaiah 24:5-6 The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Today these … Continue reading

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CO-OWNING THE EARTH

CC7 May 4 2010 Does the earth feel pain? Of course, if you believe what the Bible says in Romans 8: 22, where it is recorded that the whole creation has been groaning from pain. It must be screaming now … Continue reading

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