ACTIVE FAITH (10)
Series: James
Stephen Whitney
James 2:20-26
One of the great displays of the power of nature is a violent thunderstorm, with its bright flashes of lightning and its loud claps of thunder. Everyone has seen and probably been frightened by the sights and sounds at one time or another in your life.
Children are often impressed with the sights of the lightening. The story is told of a young boy who was upstairs in his bedroom when a thunderstorm took place so his mother went up to see if he was all right or if he was scared. When she went into his room, he was standing on a chair looking out at the storm. When a flash of lightning flashed across the sky he said, "Mom, God just took my picture." He wasn't afraid, he was enjoying the display of nature and trying to relate it to what he already knew.
Thunderstorms are the result of large clouds that form which create electrical forces. Inside the cloud the heating and cooling of the air produces electricity. Thunderstorms are nature's way of balancing the electrical forces between the earth and the large clouds which are producing electrical energy.
Lighting - is the high-voltage electrical spark which is usually a couple of miles long. The average lightning strike has 100 million volts or enough electricity to keep a room air conditioner running for two weeks.
Thunder - is the audible sound produced by the lightning strike.
The sudden rise in pressure produces an acoustic wave similar to that of an explosion.
Because sound travels at 1,000 feet per second while light travels at a million times faster, the sound of thunder comes several seconds after you see the lightning in the sky. By dividing the length of time in seconds between the lightning and the thunder by 5 you can tell how far you are from the lightning strike.
When we think about thunder-storms we think about both the lightning and thunder because one results in the other. James says that when we think about ...
Series: James
Stephen Whitney
James 2:20-26
One of the great displays of the power of nature is a violent thunderstorm, with its bright flashes of lightning and its loud claps of thunder. Everyone has seen and probably been frightened by the sights and sounds at one time or another in your life.
Children are often impressed with the sights of the lightening. The story is told of a young boy who was upstairs in his bedroom when a thunderstorm took place so his mother went up to see if he was all right or if he was scared. When she went into his room, he was standing on a chair looking out at the storm. When a flash of lightning flashed across the sky he said, "Mom, God just took my picture." He wasn't afraid, he was enjoying the display of nature and trying to relate it to what he already knew.
Thunderstorms are the result of large clouds that form which create electrical forces. Inside the cloud the heating and cooling of the air produces electricity. Thunderstorms are nature's way of balancing the electrical forces between the earth and the large clouds which are producing electrical energy.
Lighting - is the high-voltage electrical spark which is usually a couple of miles long. The average lightning strike has 100 million volts or enough electricity to keep a room air conditioner running for two weeks.
Thunder - is the audible sound produced by the lightning strike.
The sudden rise in pressure produces an acoustic wave similar to that of an explosion.
Because sound travels at 1,000 feet per second while light travels at a million times faster, the sound of thunder comes several seconds after you see the lightning in the sky. By dividing the length of time in seconds between the lightning and the thunder by 5 you can tell how far you are from the lightning strike.
When we think about thunder-storms we think about both the lightning and thunder because one results in the other. James says that when we think about ...
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