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            St John's, Glynn, County Antrim,  was designed by renowned architect Sir Charles Lanyon and built in 1841 at a cost of £800.  

It was one of Lanyon's more humble projects.  He is better known for his work in Belfast: Queen’s College (now Queen’s University), the Crumlin Road Gaol and County Courthouse, the Palm House in Botanic Gardens, Union Theological College and the Custom House, to name a few.

Lanyon's church at Glynn replaced a ruin (seen in the left of my picture) on one of the oldest ecclesiastical sites in the East Antrim area, with records dating as far back as the early 14th century. In fact, it’s said that Patrick may have founded a church here.

But that isn’t the only legend associated with the site. Local folklore says a nearby house was connected to the church via an underground tunnel and that there’s an iron chest filled with gold hidden within the graveyard. If only a rainbow would appear and show where to dig!

Today the rainbow is popular for a variety of reasons.  Perhaps many don't know that the Bible recounts how it was chosen by God to be a memorial and a promise.  It reminds us of God's judgement of mankind's wickedness that prompted Him to destroy all but Noah and his immediate family by a worldwide flood.  You can read about it in Genesis chapters six to nine.

The rainbow serves as a promise that God will never again use a flood to punish a sinful world.  But that does not mean that God is no longer angered by the wickedness of mankind and our rejection of Him.  So the rainbow is also an important reminder that God judges sin.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 
(Galatians 6:7)

Taken on: June 1, 2023

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