Job 38:41 “Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.” The shy bird called Clark’s nutcracker collects food during the growing season and stores it for the cold winter months. ...
Continue ReadingGalatians 4:19 “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you….” Does the mother’s body or the unborn baby’s body trigger the birth process? Those who advise that the baby will come when...
Continue ReadingJames 2:19 “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.” Speaking, singing, writing and body language are all familiar ways of communicating. Science has now learned of another means of commun...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” One commonly heralded claim to the evolution of man from the animal kingdom is the statement that humans and chimpanzees...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 40:8 “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.” A flower called the dead-horse arum has a problem. The individual flowers are able to receive pollen for only one day. To make matters worse,...
Continue ReadingPsalm 146:6 “Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever….” Most people have seen the beautiful colors of reef fish. However, all those bright colors would be expected to make them attract...
Continue ReadingPsalm 111:2 “The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein”. The saying goes that “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” However, just because something is called a rose does not mean that it would sm...
Continue ReadingPsalm 104:5 “Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.” I was in my mid teens. I had got on the train, ready for a journey to London. I had thought I had checked that I was on the right train and that I was sitti...
Continue Reading1 Corinthians 15:47 “The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.” A large proportion of Paul’s teaching seems to be predicated on the literal truth of the early chapters of Genesis. In Romans 5, Paul draws a parall...
Continue Reading1 Peter 2:20-21 “For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ a...
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