Untold millions – yes, by now billions – of people have used the words “Hallelujah! Amen!” to express aspects of their faith. Let’s examine their Old Testament roots.
Bonjour!
Spring has sprung. The moon was increasing this past week and nature has hovered herself over everywhere there is a green leaf and grass to be seen. Last Sunday I could view the canal from my porch. Today, a week later, I can barely see the water rising through the greenery.
Either I was mistaken or told the wrong figure, but I just asked a fisherman what the price of crawfish was and he said $1.85 a pound. I’d thought it had fallen. He said (and I agree) that the price will definitely drop precipitously on the Monday after Easter. That always happens.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1 NLT).
According to the Book of Genesis, God created the universe and all that is in it in six days: “Then God looked over all He had made, and He saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
This is the time of the year when warm air from the Gulf and cool fronts from the North clash in south Louisiana, so it is not entirely a surprise that the Easter Bunny needed his fur coat on Easter Sunday, April 4, 1920, or that the souls who were brave enough “to cast aside … heavier wear and don the glad rags of Easter” suffered for their v