Gleanings From The Word

Daily devotionals from Scripture to nourish your faith, deepen your prayer life, and grow in God's grace.

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Chickadee – an amazing bird 0

Chickadee – an amazing bird

The black-capped chickadee is an amazing little bird. They are cute, friendly, and have a sweet song, but they also have some amazing characteristics you might not know about. Each year, the chickadee’s hippocampus sheds memories of the previous year and develops new patterns to remember the location of every seed it stashed away. It is estimated that they can remember 100,000 seeds. Scientists are studying this...

What is the church? The hands and feet of Jesus.

What is the church? it’s a question we often get wrong. “Church people and God’s people are not the same thing. Church people go to church. God’s people are the church.”

Christ uses ordinary people and ordinary days

The all powerful God of creation could have accomplished His goals in any way He wished. Yet He chose to give us the blessing of participating with Him. He’s given you and me, ordinary people, the task of sharing His love with the world.