2 Kings 10:29 “Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the golden calves that [were] in Bethel, and that [were] in Dan.” The Old Testament mentions the worship ...
Continue ReadingRomans 11:34 “For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?” “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” We’ve all heard this familiar saying. In the case of the sun’s fire, scientists e...
Continue ReadingPhilippians 2:3 “[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.” It’s a challenge, even for the Christian, to get along with lazy, selfish people. This is becau...
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 8:16,17b “When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also [there is that] neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) though a man labour to seek [it] out, yet he shall not ...
Continue ReadingRomans 11:33 “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” Spider silk begins as a liquid protein made by silk glands on the spider’s abdomen. Sp...
Continue ReadingGenesis 12:4b “And Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.” Excavations north of Baghdad, in Iraq, are helping us to understand one of the most famous Old Testament characters. The more than 4,000 ancient document...
Continue ReadingJob 39:26 “Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, [and] stretch her wings toward the south?” Many textbooks tell young people today that birds are modified reptiles. Suppose, they say, that millions of years ago the scales on some reptiles began to ...
Continue ReadingJeremiah 10:2 “Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.” The world is a frightening place without God. This fear can be seen today in fears that mo...
Continue ReadingMark 2:17 “When Jesus heard [it], he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” Fireflies may help light the way to new medical brea...
Continue ReadingGenesis 45:5 “Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.” In a clever scheme of self-protection, the more poisonous the male rattlebox moth is, the more pri...
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