Genesis 12:4b “And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from 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 documents that have been...
Continue ReadingJob 39:26 “Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and spread its 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 fray along...
Continue ReadingJeremiah 10:2 “Thus says the Lord: ‘Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the Gentiles are dismayed at them.’” The world is a frightening place without God. This fear can be seen today in fears that m...
Continue ReadingMark 2:17 “When Jesus heard it, He said to them, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.’” Fireflies may help light the way to new medical break-thr...
Continue ReadingGenesis 45:5 “But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.” In a clever scheme of self-protection, the more poisonous the male rattlebox moth is, the more prized h...
Continue ReadingGalatians 4:6 “And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, ‘Abba, Father!’” Most of us are familiar with the body’s response to foreign tissue. Transplant patients must be carefully matched an...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:10 “Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.” Some people have the green thumb in their family. Others may complain that they fail with plants because plants don’t tell them whe...
Continue ReadingPsalm 8:3-4 “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?” If your measuring stick is inaccurate, you could end...
Continue ReadingMatthew 6:25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” How many ants are there in the world?...
Continue Reading2 Peter 3:5-6 “For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.” Today it is considered scho...
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