Genesis 4:21 “And his brother’s name [was] Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.” Which is more likely to last buried in the ground for a few thousand years: a wooden spoon or a stone hammer? Since the hammer...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 55:8 ‘For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.” In 1981 it was only a theory – one that seemed to go against all logic. The theory said that if you have a signal – say, a sound that was t...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:25 “And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” It has often been supposed anecdotally that owning a pet can ...
Continue ReadingSong of Solomon 1:15 “Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.” I have blue eyes. My children have blue eyes. Their mother had blue eyes. As you were probably taught in high school, the gene for blue eyes is ...
Continue ReadingPsalm 139:14 “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.” Do your eyes ever play tricks on you? Our eyes regularly play tricks on us with the help of our br...
Continue ReadingJohn 11:11-12 “These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.” When you are ill, you need sleep. ...
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 10:1 “Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: [so doth] a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom [and] honour.” We don’t often think about our sense of smell. While our nos...
Continue ReadingPsalm 139:14 “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.” Our eyes do more work and tell more about us than many people realize. These amazing organs are so...
Continue ReadingGenesis 11:8-9 “So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from then...
Continue ReadingLeviticus 11:21-22 “Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his ki...
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