Scripture

I hope this is an encouragement to you today.


Nahum 1:7
The LORD is good,
A stronghold in the day of trouble,
And He knows those who take refuge in Him.

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Soli Deo gloria
-Christopher

Evolution

The language in this article is simply amazing.

I am not making this up: a type of butterfly "learned" to mimic the scent of ants, and to imitate the sound a queen makes, to get ants to raise — and give preferential treatment to! — its young. The mind boggles.

How many billions of generations of butterflies died working on their impressions?

How did they "learn" to exude a fragrance? Can you?

How did they get in there and survive to hear the imperceptible sound a queen makes, much less work on their Rich Little groove?

And, having "learned" all that, how did they communicate this acquired characteristic and learning to their offspring?

All that's just for starters. Amazing. I do think there is a better explanation:

Psalm 104:24
O Lord, how manifold are your works!

In wisdom have you made them all;

the earth is full of your creatures.

HT: Dan Phillips

Scripture

The Lord your God is with you,
He is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.

Zephaniah 3:17

The true message of Jesus

“Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and liberated or the broken and marginal avoid church. That can only mean one thing. If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.”

- Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God

HT: OF FIRST IMPORTANCE