WIND 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. John 3:7-8 NATURE CONVERSATION
TREES (part 2) 43 “For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, 44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. 45 The good person out of the good treasure of
BOUNDARIES – OCEANS 8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, 9 when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, 10 and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, 11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and
RAIN Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime; it is the Lord who sends the thunderstorms. He gives showers of rain to all people, and plants of the field to everyone. Zechariah 10:1 NIV Nature Conversation Rain, rain, go away, come again another day. We may feel like that on rainy days,
GRASS 24 All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25 but the word of the Lord remains forever. 1 Peter 1:24-25 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So
ANIMAL/HUMAN INTERACTION My daughter, with wild bunny she was doctoring. 6The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.7 The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall
“Pa was shaking his head. “We’re going to have a hard winter, he said, not liking the prospect. “Why, how do you know?” Laura asked in surprise. “The colder the winter will be, the thicker the muskrats build the walls of their houses,” Pa told her. “I never saw a heavier-built muskrats’ house than that
Why should we study nature? Did you know some ancient cultures would not have studied nature? Nature was too sacred – the gods were everywhere, dwelling as part of nature, or so they believed. In fact, science as we know today was birthed when Europe was under the influence of Christianity. Only under this worldview
Where are animals mentioned in the Bible? You might be surprised… Job 38-41 speaks of God as over creation, as the Creator. Chapter 39 specifically discusses animals. My favorite part is about the ostrich… Job 40:15-24 is about the behemoth (possibly a hippo or elephant) and Job 41 is about the leviaton. Proverbs 30:18-19, 24-31
This semester AWANAS, specifically the third grade T&T book has become a major part of our homeschool day. We are working on the bonus sections. It includes activities such as: make a solar system read a missionary book memorize John 3:16 in another language daily Bible readings with questions research projects on biblical topics