A new life of Cicada

Cicadas emerge after 13 or 17 years underground
“periodical cicadas”-- only found in North America -- have very long life cycles and their life cycles are synchronized.


In 1956, 1.5 million cicadas per acre were counted! (study done in forested floodplains near Chicago)
In 1990, people were shoveling them off their driveways!

They can be loud and just annoying you with the 104-106 decibel level
(louder than motorcycle-100 db and lower than Rock Concert 120db)

Cicadas do not sting, bite or carry diseases.You can eat them.

FACTS
Cicadas live above ground 4-6 weeks
Cicadas are not locusts which are grasshoppers.
With the huge numbers of its emerging, what John the Baptist ate might be cicadas rather than locusts. Do you think so?

SERMON WRITER

Resource for Lectionary Preaching; http://www.sermonwriter.com/

IF YOU USE THE LECTIONARY , you have probably looked at the lessons for the week and wondered,
"WHAT CAN I SAY that is faithful to these texts and relevant to my congregation?"

SERMONWRITER HELPS YOU ANSWER THAT QUESTION
providing abundant materials
to spark your imagination – to get you started – to save you time

How about Devotion?

Highly recommended with the prayer that

Oswald Chambers' teachings

will help you grow in your walk with Christ.

My Utmost for His Highest; http://www.myutmost.org/

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917), a Scottish minister & teacher teaching on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day

A daily devotional collection of his teachings compiled by his wife into a daily devotional format.

Taken from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. (c) l935 by Dodd Mead & Co., renewed (c) 1963 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn., Ltd., and is used by permission of Discovery House Publishers, Box 3566, Grand Rapids MI 4950l. All rights reserved.

Recommended for sermon

Preaching resources
to get some others' view

Excellent Exegesis on the Web!

http://www.lectionary.org/

Thanksgiving 2009

The most popular questions in this week

"Where are you going?" or
"What are you going to do?"