Ecclesiastes 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...
Continue ReadingGalatians 4:6 “And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” Most of us are familiar with the body’s response to foreign tissue. Transplant patients must be carefully matched ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:10 “And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.” Some people have the green thumb in their family. Others may complain that they fail with plants because plants donR...
Continue ReadingPsalm 8:3-4 “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” If your measuring stick is inaccurate,...
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