Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?” The hard-driving, powerful execu...
Continue ReadingPsalm 71:17 “O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.” While debate continues about whether chimps can actually learn to communicate with language, there is little question that they understand simple ...
Continue ReadingPhilippians 2:5-7 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the liken...
Continue ReadingPsalm 104:27 “These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.” It’s not news when a dog bites a man. However, it is news when a man bites a dog. Likewise, it’s not news when a toad eats a fly. But news about a fly ...
Continue ReadingPsalm 57:8-9 “Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.” On the first morning of the time change to daylight savings, it’s a litt...
Continue ReadingPsalm 9:1 “I will praise [thee], O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.” We’ve all seen a misty halo around the sun or the moon. The halo is caused when light from the sun or the moon shines through ice, high in the...
Continue Reading1 Corinthians 8:2 “And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.” Ever since Charles Darwin first visited the Galapagos Islands, the creatures of these islands have been presented to the public as classic ...
Continue ReadingMatthew 26:41 “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.” Those who truly believe that the Bible is the Word of God consider its moral instruction as being God’s absolutes. Others thi...
Continue ReadingLuke 12:54-55 “And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is. And when [ye see] the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.” When we think ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:15 “And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” The black madrone butterfly is one of the strangest butterflies in the world. It also has a highly unusual relationship with man. The madrone...
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