The Memorial Sewn Into the Coat
On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris when something shattered his ordinary evening....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 9:28b-36.
On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris when something shattered his ordinary evening. For two hours, he experienced what he could only describe as fire — the overwhelming, unmistakable presence of the living God. Not the God of philosophers and scholars, he scrawled frantically on a scrap of parchment, but the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.…
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