Granite Bay Seventh-day Adventist Church

Contributed by: Doug Batchelor An Amazing Fact! To produce about one pound of honey, bees must make 25,000 trips between their hive and the flowers from which they gather the precious nectar. Furthermore, that same pound of honey contains the essence of about two million flowers! The phrase "milk and honey" is mentioned over 20 times in the Bible, not to advocate an extravagant diet, but rather to describe the rich abundance of the land of Canaan.   God used this phrase primarily to emphasize that the region of Canaan was a land lush with natural resources. To produce an abundance of milk or honey, there must be fields covered with flowers for the bees and plentiful vegetation for the goats and cattle. Describing the Promised Land as a land flowing with milk and honey was more than just a metaphor. Ancient Israel was not always the dry desert we see today.   But as a result of being conquered by a parade of empires and deforested for 3,000 years, the soil and climate

Contributed by:  Shemeka  There I was standing on the curb outside of the airport waiting for my ride.  Next to me was an older gentleman apparently doing the same thing.  We struck up a friendly conversation.   He told me that he had lost his son.   He was 9 years old and had been in a car accident and died of complications related to that.   This man was broken.   You see, he was driving the car when the accident occurred.   I couldn't even begin to imagine the grief and the guilt that he was carrying.   In the midst of his pain, he shared with me that he had some questions about God related to the death of his son. As we were standing there, it quickly became apparent to me that this was a divine appointment. But I had to act quickly because my ride would be showing up at any moment.   I knew that I didn't have time to go into a deep Bible study with him, and as awful as it sounds, I didn't even really have time to pray with him.   Thankfully, though, God h