Subject: Church News. June 22, 2008 (Chickens)

Howdy! Recently I purchased six baby chicks from the feed store. As they have grown up I’ve noticed that in spite of the fact that they never knew their parents (or for that matter any other chickens) … they instinctively know how to be chickens. They know how to eat and drink, how to take dirt baths, how to make chicken noises and how to reproduce and they seem to be in good psychological health. God equipped them to be chickens without any training from other chickens. Like chickens, God equips us with certain abilities as well. Romans 1:18–20. “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities… his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made… so that men are without excuse.” God gives all of mankind the ability to know about his eternal power and divine nature by observing what he has created… the earth and all it contains. Man can conclude by looking at nature that there is a God and that he has eternal power and a divine nature. Man is different than a chicken though. A chicken can’t be anything but a chicken, but a man, even though he is given the ability to know about God, can reject who he is and turn from being a son of God to being a son of Satan (It would be better to be a chicken)… how sad. Accept God today, learn more about him by reading the Bible and be who he wants you to be.