Article from Creation Momments: “Dear Friend of Creation, Joy to the world, the Lord is come. Let earth receive her King! As the great Christmas hymn reminds us, God so loved the world that He gave. Christmas is truly a time when even non-Christians in non-Christian cultures are reminded about the great joys of giving … Continue reading
Birds in Hymns – Hail to the Lord’s Anointed
Give the king Your judgments, O God, And Your righteousness to the king’s Son. He will judge Your people with righteousness, And Your poor with justice. (Psalms 72:1-2) Words: James Montgomery, 1821. Music: Ellacombe, Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Wirtembergischen Katholischen Hofkapelle (Württemberg, Germany: 1784); adapted & harmonized by William H. Monk in the 1868 appendix to … Continue reading
Birds in Hymns – In God Will I Trust
In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? (Psalms 11:1 KJV) Words: Paraphrase of Psalm 11; author unknown. Music: Protection, from A Compilation of Genuine Church Music, by Joseph Funk (Winchester, Virginia: J. W. Hollis, 1832) In God Will I Trust In God … Continue reading
When I Consider! – Capillary flow, Osmosis and Vacuum pressure
Evidence From Botany – January 4 On a hot summer day, one large tree can pump over a thousand gallons—that’s four ton—of water from the ground to it leaves. The water is collected from the soil through the roots. But the real work of pumping four tons of water, often 100 feet in the air, … Continue reading
Interesting Things – Cuckoo Deceit
Deceit Is Cuckoo Listen to this from Creation Moment Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel. Proverbs 20:17 You may be aware that the common cuckoo does not feed or raise its own young. Instead, it lays its eggs in the nests of other … Continue reading
When I Consider! – Couch’s Spadefoot Toad
Evidence From Biology – January 6 The Couch’s spadefoot toad of the Sonoran Desert is an example of how God takes care of creatures under extreme conditions. This toad lies dormant in the hot desert eleven out of twelve months each year. It has built-in sensors that tell it when a violent desert rainstorm occurs. … Continue reading
When I Consider! – Snowshoe Rabbit
Evidence From Biology – January 2 Although the original world was created perfect and without death, our fallen world requires creatures to adapt to difficult situations in order to survive. Even in the current world full of death and competition, the smallest of creatures exhibit amazing capabilities for survival in harsh environments. The female snowshoe … Continue reading
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Rufous-banded Honeyeater
Here’s a small tropical Honeyeater that we encountered frequently in the Top End of the Northern Territory in September: the Rufous-banded. It’s appeal is subtle rather than spectacular, but I think it looks rather smart with its grey head, white-throat, rufous breast band and brown and yellow wings and tail. It has a restricted range, … Continue reading
Birds of the Bible – Fatted Fowl
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. (1 Kings 4:23 KJV) While doing a search with my e-Sword Bible program, I came across I Kings 4:23. It is in the midst of the daily provisions needed by Solomon for … Continue reading
Thanksgiving Turkey
Tomorrow, many of us here in the United States will be eating turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Luckily, many turkeys will survive our holiday and continue to roam around. Here locally in Polk County, Florida, I see a “rafter” of turkeys (name for a group of turkeys – incorrectly called a “gobble” or “flock”) from time … Continue reading
Birds of the Bible – Cuckoo II
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, (Leviticus 11:16 KJV) and (Deuteronomy 14:15) The verses above are interesting because the cuckow (cuckoo) is taken from the Hebrew word, ” שחף or shachaph” (H7828), and is only used in those two verses. Some translate it as “cuckow” … Continue reading
Ian’s Bird of the Week – White-throated Needletail
My (Ian’s) apologies for a late bird of the week – this should have gone out last week. The White-throated Needletail is a large swift, length 20cm/8in, that visits eastern Australia in the southern summer. It’s main claim to fame is that, in level flight, it is one of the fastest, perhaps the fastest, bird … Continue reading
