Creation Archives | Council Fire

March 29, 2026

Feisty

“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” Matthew 6:26 (NIV) Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Luke 12:25 (NIV) I often remember Feisty, a little squirrel with a notch missing on his ear, who visited our yard in northern Alberta. Our cabin was located along a migration path and, in spite of the frigid temperatures, many birds wintered there. Hundreds of pine grosbeaks, evening grosbeaks, redpolls, gray […]

February 28, 2026

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February 28, 2026

God’s Masterpiece – Orchids

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.” Matthew 6:28-29 There are about 23,000 varieties of orchids. God must have been smiling while He designed these flowers. Some look like butterflies and others like braying donkeys with big ears. The flying duck orchid entices an insect to land on its scented head and then flips the visitor onto its back so that it picks up the pollen before moving […]

February 21, 2026

February 21, 2026

Edgar the Crow

“Let birds fly … across the vault of the sky.” Genesis 1:20b (NIV) One day when I was walking in the woods, I found a tiny baby bird hopping around in the grass. I gently picked him up and looked at the huge oak tree that appeared to have a bird’s nest near the top. There was no way to get the baby bird back to its nest, so I took it home with me. The bird was old enough to have black pin feathers and I thought it might be a raven, so I named him Edgar after Edgar […]

February 7, 2026

February 7, 2026

The Power of God’s Word

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And God said, ‘Let there be light: and there was light.’” Genesis 1:1-3 (KJV) I am not sure how much I can grasp the power of God’s Word as in the above Scripture. With one word Almighty God created the heaven and earth to existence. With one word, there was light. Let that sink in a bit. We serve a powerful and amazing God! Throughout the Bible, here is how He displayed His power: The parting of the Red Sea to bring His people out of bondage (Exodus 14) . […]

January 25, 2026

January 25, 2026

Promises Kept

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Genesis 8:22 (NIV) It was early September and as the first green tree morphed to yellow, the thought came to me, “Here we go again. Pretty soon the snow’ll be flying!” In Cree we’d say, “Kiiyipa wii mispoon.” No matter how you say it, there’s no getting around the changing seasons! The changing tree color brought to mind the passage in Genesis 8:22 of how the seasons came to be. It came out of God’s promise made to Noah […]

January 11, 2026

January 11, 2026

Clay Pots

“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” 2 Corinthians 4:6-9 (NIV) God called Gideon to save Israel from the Midianites. Gideon started with 32,000 men, but […]

January 5, 2026

January 5, 2026

Space Travel

“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.” Isaiah 40:28a (NIV) Do you ever feel tired or a little dizzy? It might have something to do with our space travels. We ride on a spinning planet, traveling over 24,000 miles each day (at the equator) at a speed of 1,000 miles per hour. At the same time, we journey around our sun for a year at a speed of over 67,000 miles per hour, completing a tour of 92,960,000 miles. As we rotate on our axis […]