“I like blue best; what do you think?” “No! North is definitely better!” Huh? How often in a discussion does it seem like the other person has not heard us at all? You might recall the “Yanny vs Laurel” debate, where the same word is heard totally differently by people (Do you hear “yanny” or… Continue reading Mat 13:16 – Yanny or Laurel
Lion, elephant, hippo, and hyena, are all real possibilities as uninvited guests at our campsite in Chobe, Botswana. While the sun shines it seems safe, but as the inky darkness creeps across the bushveld chasing the receding sun, so the unease increases. Not only can we no longer see the dangers, it’s in the dark… Continue reading Heb 1:7 – Campfire
A professor stands in front of his class, holding two eggs. “What’s the difference?” he asks. “Nothing,” the class replies. “One has a chick in it,” he says, “it has been fertilized. “So, what’s the difference?” “The one has been given life,” a student replies. “Yes, that’s correct. And how did it get life?” “From… Continue reading Joh 6:63 -Two eggs
Nothing! Absolutely nothing! It’s wonderful! That’s how it feels in moments when we can sit in a quiet, secluded place immersed in nature. No one to be seen, just God’s majestic canvas painted in awesome wonder all around us. Before me, he paints the waves in hues of deep blue, dabbing their tops with frothy… Continue reading Rom 1:20 – Absolutely Nothing
Did you know that the deepest gold mine is 3.84km deep? That’s like a 1000-story building below ground. That’s crazy. Yet even at these incredible depths, we have only penetrated 0.2% of the skin of the earth. This is similar to our experience of God. Sometimes we find a gem of divine wisdom in a… Continue reading Rom 11:33 – God’s mine
NASA recently released the first images of stars, 2500 light years away, never before seen by humans. Each spot of light in the images are galaxies containing billions of stars. It’s incomprehensible. But what’s really incomprehensible is that “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of… Continue reading Psa 33:6 – Star breather
We had an avocado tree that produced the most amazing avos. However one year it stopped producing fruit. And then after several years when it began again, the avos were small and watery. We finally discovered the reason – we had changed the soil beneath the tree by making a kid’s sandpit. We would never… Continue reading Mat 12:33 – Fruit trees
Have you ever been so excited about seeing someone that you can think of nothing else? You’re so looking forward to seeing them that you can’t even eat. It has to be someone really special to make us feel like this. Someone you know really well. Someone you really love. Have you ever felt like… Continue reading Psa 84:2 – So excited
King Solomon one of the wisest and wealthiest people ever, says in Ecclesiastes 1:14 “I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless—like chasing the wind.” He is saying that once you finally get hold of your big dream car, house, or career, it simply vanishes into nothing. Yet despite… Continue reading 2Co 4:18 – Unseen is eternal