Job 12:7-8 “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will explain to you.” The yellow-and-black striped archer fish shops a...
Continue ReadingGenesis 32:10a “I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant.” How would you like to be a dental hygienist for a crocodile? That’s how the crocodile bird makes his living. Of course you do ne...
Continue Reading1 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 ReadingRomans 8:22-23 “For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the...
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 ReadingExodus 12:12 “‘For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.'” Modern skepti...
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 there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” When my family and I were moving from England to Pensacola, some of our friends were incredulous. “Don...
Continue ReadingGenesis 8:22 “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Climate change is a funny thing. Almost any weather-related phenomenon can be said to have been altered over t...
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