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Nathan Olaf Brandal
First Baptist Church of Kirkland

"Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure"
GEORGE WHITEFIELD TO JOHN WESLEY

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Cool pic!

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Patrick
OPC
MDiv, RTS Jackson.

"He does well, that discourses of Christ; but he does infinitely better, that by experimental knowledge, feeds and lives on Christ." Thomas Brooks.

Why is there lightning?

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Andrew DeShazo, Deacon, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"All of us stumble in many ways, but if anyone is never at fault in what he says, then he is mature, able to control his whole body."(James 3:2)

Same reason that you get shocked when you shuffle your feet on the carpet and touch a metal door knob.

Lightning in volcanic eruptions is, I believe, rather common. The ash sent up in the volcanic plume is flowing upward at a furious rate - as the dust particles bump into each other, they rub off electric charges, and eventually set up what is effectively a big voltage between the cloud and the surrounding air (or the cloud higher up). Eventually that voltage difference becomes large enough that the air can break down and BAM - you got lightning.

Same thing happens in thunderheads - the air currents driving water molecules in a convection pattern inside thunderheads generates sufficient voltage differences that lightning (air breakdown and electrical connection across that broken-down air path) can strike.

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Todd K. Pedlar
member, First Congregational Church, (CCCC) Cresco, IA
http://semperubi.rtrc.net

"Many men, after a long conversion, see more of the workings of sin in their hearts than ever they did before or at their first conversion. Now, such men have not an increase of sin, but an increase of illumination and light" (Christopher Love)


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That is a fantastic picture. Is it possible, however, that it was embellished with photo shop?

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Rev. Daniel Kok
Pastor of Grace Reformed Church (URCNA)
Leduc, Alberta CANADA
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"there is no creature, either in heaven or on earth, who loves us more than Jesus Christ"
Belgic Confession, Article 26

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I doubt it... here's from the Daily Telegraph:

Cool!! My new desktop.

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Traci
Lynnwood OPC
Psalm 52:8-9
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.