Xinhua - New plant species discovered in SW China:

http://en.people.cn/n3/2024/0220/c90000-20134899.html

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August 29

Seeds of Time
Bible in a Year:
Psalms 126–128
1 Corinthians 10:19–33
Others, like seeds sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop.

Today's Scripture & Insight:

Mark 4:13–20
In 1879, people watching William Beal would likely think he was loony. They’d see the professor of botany filling twenty bottles with various seeds, then burying them in deep soil. What they didn’t know was that Beal was conducting a seed viability experiment that would span centuries. Every twenty years a bottle would be dug up to plant its seeds and see which seeds would germinate.

Jesus talked a lot about seed planting, often likening the sowing of seed to the spreading of “the word” (Mark 4:15). He taught that some seeds are snatched by Satan, others have no foundation and don’t take root, and yet others are hampered by the life around them and are choked out (vv. 15–19). As we spread the good news, it’s not up to us which seeds will survive. Our job is simply to sow the gospel—to tell others about Jesus: “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation” (16:15 esv).

In 2021, another of Beal’s bottles was dug up. The seeds were planted by researchers and some sprouted, having survived more than 142 years. As God works through us and we share our faith with others, we never know if the word we share will take root or when. But we’re to be encouraged that our sowing of the good news might, even after many years, be received by someone who will “accept it, and produce a crop” (4:20).

By: Kenneth Petersen

Dear God, please give me the courage to share Jesus with friends and colleagues. Amen.

Residence of N.S.W are currently facing unprecedented restrictions to personal freedoms, and medical martial law is being enforced in Greater Sydney. On the 13th July 2021 health authorities dressed in full bio-hazard equipment accompanied by N.S.W police, and a small contingent of private security contractors, surrounded a Bondi apartment building on Botany Street in Sydney's east. The Bondi apartment building was locked down by N.S.W Police, and all residents of the 29 apartments were forced to submit D.N.A antigen samples, under the guise of Coronavirus testing. Two residents of the apartment block were detained by police, and taken to an unknown location after allegedly "testing positive" for Covid-19.

Read more about this in our article https://www.thenarrowwaychristianministry.com/single-post/lockdown-new-south-wales