1 John 4:19 “We love Him because He first loved us.” Imagine a huge living creature covering about one square mile and made up of almost a third of a billion cells. Imagine each of those living cells being able to move about independently of the other...
Continue Reading1 John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.” You might not think of the crocodile as a particularly loving creature. In reality, the crocodile is among...
Continue ReadingJohn 9:4 “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.” Some creatures are so bizarre that they suggest a lesson to us. Yet even in their strangeness we see that they have been perfectly provided ...
Continue ReadingPsalm 50:10 “For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.” When the piranha is mentioned, nearly everyone thinks of a picture of a herd of cattle crossing the Amazon – and splish, splash – nothing is left bu...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:31 “And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” Antibiotic resistance is one of the most troubling properties of certain strains of bacteria. If a strain of bac...
Continue ReadingMatthew 6:26 “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?” The Willow Warbler is a fascinating little bird. It weighs less than ha...
Continue ReadingGenesis 3:17 “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all t...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:19 “And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.” ...
Continue Reading1 Corinthians 1:25 “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” It sounds silly to ask whether bacteria can think. However, science has known for more than 100 years that the little guys can...
Continue ReadingPsalm 119:73 “Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.” Hydraulic machines are part of our everyday lives. When you step on the brakes in your car, brake fluid, which cannot be compress...
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