Psalm 71:2“Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.” The enemy prowls the night skies, searching. But its would-be victims may have sensitive sonar detectors, allowing them to flee before...
Continue Reading1 Peter 5:8“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour…” A real monster prowls the ocean floor from the Aleutian Islands to Southern California. It is a terror to...
Continue ReadingPsalm 77:14“Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.” The long, cold winters of Scandinavia not only freeze the lakes, but pile so much snow on the lake ice that no light can penetrate to the cold,...
Continue Reading1 Corinthians 15:40“There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.” The last few years have seen a good deal of excitement among astronomers over the...
Continue ReadingPsalm 96:9“O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.” Over hundreds of years, science has learned a lot about manipulating light. And while lasers and liquid crystals might seem pretty sophisticated, some of...
Continue ReadingMatthew 8:20“And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” Millions of North Americans are familiar with the call of the Black-Capped chickadee: “Chicka-de...
Continue ReadingEphesians 6:4“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” How important is father to a child’s religious growth? Due to the way in which census information is gathere...
Continue ReadingJoel 1:17 “The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.” If it weren’t for mushrooms, there would be so many un-decayed dead trees that there would be no room o...
Continue ReadingNumbers 21:9 “And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.” The last creature a rattlesnake wants to see is the California ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:20“And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.” Today, hummingbirds are found only in North, Central and South America...
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