Homiletical Idea: The God who has the power to fry you is incredibly good! Exegetical Idea: Abraham put obedience to God first even though he faced the prospect of sacrificing his son Isaac. Theological Idea: Faithful worshipers of God will put obedience to God first even when there is great cost involved.
How to Create Loam. Although loam is a combination of sand, silt and clay, adding sand to your clay soil, or vice versa, will not create loam. Doing so will result in something like cement. Creating a loose, loamy, fertile soil is an ongoing process that involves working organic matter into the soil, every year.
Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs. The word is often applied only to those that live as infauna, spending most of their lives partially buried in the sand of the ocean floor. In particular, edible infaunal bivalves are often called clams. Clams have two shells of equal size connected by two adductor muscles and have a powerful burrowing foot. Clams in the culinary sense do not live attached to a substrate (whereas oysters and mussels do) and do not live near the bottom (whereas scallops do). In culinary usage, clams are commonly eaten marine bivalves, as in clam digging and the resulting soup, clam chowder. Many edible clams such as palourde clams are oval or triangular; however, razor clams have an elongated parallel-sided shell, suggesting an old-fashioned straight razor. Some clams have life cycles of only one year, while at least one may be over 500 years old.