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The chapel has rounded sides with huge clear glass windows to let the light in. On the night I was giving my lecture there was an enormous thunder and lightning storm going on outside, and so there were cosmic and divine affirmations of my major points \ud83d\ude42
\nHere are the three plenary lectures, John Barclay my friend from Durham and Everett Ferguson from Abilene Christian.\u2014
\n $\"hou2\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Just outside the Chapel is a beautiful painting of creation\u2026.
\n $\"hou3\"$ <\/a> $\"hou4\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Across the hallway in the same building is the Houston Baptist Bible Museum which includes our old friend the scribe copying an illuminated manuscript\u2026.
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