Things I learned Listening To A Sermon

 I learned some things in church this morning.

1. Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand out of fear. They use their heads to scoop out a place to lay their eggs. Burying your head in the sand to avoid trouble is an old wives fable.

2. A hen only gathers her chicks under her wings until those chicks are a few weeks old. Once they are old enough to fly and to perch she no longer gathers them under her wings. And a lot more happens in those newly hatched days than protecting the chicks from hawks.

3. I suspect that finding chicks alive under the hens wings even after the hen is dead is a myth too. The small vulnerable chicks will die long before the strong mature adult hen does. Her wings are not that strong.

4. Some preachers have a hard time with God's love for us. They imply that God only loves us when we are hard at work evangelizing. That God's love for us depends not on God, but on our behavior. God loved us when we were sinners. But now He only loves us when we are doing what pleases Him.

I learned all of this while pastor was preaching. It was not a part of his sermon.