Topic(s): Evidences, Science

Consider the bee. He has five eyes: three simple ones on top of his head, two compound ones with thousands of lenses. And he has 5000 nostrils—nose enough to smell an apple tree two miles away. He has two sets of wings, which can be hooked together in flight so they flap as one, 16,000 times a minute. And no matter how he zigzags his dizzy dance of the flowers, he always beelines it back to his hive home and job there. He may be a street cleaner, a water carrier, a nurse, a sentry, a mason, an engineer, or an air conditioner. If he is the last, he may fan 12 hours at a stretch in the hive, on top of 12 hours spent gathering nectar outside. Busy as a bee is no overstatement; he literally works himself to death, all for the single teaspoon of honey spread upon your breakfast toast, the entire quota of his few short weeks of life. A one-pound jar of honey on your table represents 50,000 miles as the bee flies, or a girdling of our globe twice...Let us not take the bee so much for granted again. All his dipping into dandelions and daises and snapdragons is no joyous game but an instinctual obedience to an ordinance of nature that commands “while the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest shall not cease.” There are 100,000 species of plants which could never properly form seeds without the bee. Without him, our bread would not be sweet; indeed there would be no bread...(Reader's Digest).

Evolution? Hardly!

Little Boy Lessons

Topic(s): Children, Humor, Wisdom

• One little boy was having difficulty lifting a heavy stone. His father came along just then. He asked, “Are you using all your strength?” “Yes!” “No, you're not,” the father replied, “I’m right here, and you haven’t asked me to help you.” As we face our difficulties, are we using all our strength (Matthew 7:7-11)?
• We should hunger for righteousness like a little boy hungering for his mother’s pie (Matthew 5:6). Mother: “If you eat one more piece of pie, you’ll pop.” Little boy (believing her, but wanting more): “O.K, Mother, give me another piece and stand clear!”

An Every Day Religion

Topic(s): Christian Life

Monday—Wash Day: Lord, help me wash away all my selfishness and vanity, so I may serve you with perfect humility through the week ahead (1 Peter 5:6).

Tuesday—Ironing Day: Dear Lord, help me iron out all the wrinkles of prejudice I have collected through the years so that I may see the beauty in others (James 2:1-3).

Wednesday—Mending Day: O God, help me mend my ways so I will not set a bad example for others (Matthew 5:14-16).

Thursday—Cleaning Day: Dear Lord, help me to dust out all the many faults I have been hiding in the secret corners of my heart (Psalm 19:14).

Friday—Shopping Day: O God, give me the grace to shop wisely so I may purchase eternal happiness for myself and all others in need of love (1 Corinthians 13).

Saturday—Cooking Day: Help me, my Savior, to brew a big kettle of brotherly love and serve it with clean, sweet bread of human kindness (Ephesians 4:32).

Sunday—The Lord’s Day: O God, help me to worship Thee this day in spirit and in truth recognizing thy greatness and my weakness (John 4:24); remembering thy Son’s death in the Lord’s Supper (1 Corinthians 11); giving generously as thou hast been good to me (2 Corinthians 9:7,8); singing enthusiastically praise to thy name (1 Corinthians 15:14); praying reverently (Hebrews 4:16); and studying carefully from thy Word (Luke 8:18; Mark 4:24).

Too Many Birthdays?

Topic(s): Humor

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions. How old are you? “I'm four and a half” ... You’re never 36 and a half!

You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number. How old are you? “I'm gonna be 16.” You could be 12, but you're gonna be 16. And then the greatest day of your life happens... you become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony... you BECOME 21. YES!

But then you turn 30... ooohhh what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk... He TURNED…we had to throw him out. There’s no fun now. What's wrong? What changed? You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40... stay over there, it’s all slipping away...You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, you're PUSHING 40, you REACH 50... and your dreams are gone. Then you MAKE IT to 60... you didn’t think you would! So you BECOME 21, you TURN 30, you’re PUSHING 40, you REACH 50, you MAKE IT to 60... then you build up so much speed you HIT 70!

After that, it’s a day by day thing. After that, you HIT Wednesday. You get into your 80s, you HIT lunch. You TURN 4:30…my grandmother won’t even buy green bananas... It’s an investment you know, and maybe a bad one.

And it doesn’t end there... into the 90s you start going backwards... I was JUST 92...Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again... “I’m 100 and a half!”

“For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” - James 4:17b