What Was Jesus' Favorite Bird?
Nat Theo Nature Lessons Rooted in the Bible
Eryn Lynum
4.8 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Do you think Jesus had a favorite bird? If he did it might have been... (spoiler alert!)...
The house sparrow!
The house sparrow is one of the most common birds, found on every continent except Antartica. The oldest fossil of a house sparrow was found in Bethlehem. It's likely that Jesus grew up with house sparrows much like the ones in our own yards! But when we learn a little more about how Jesus taught using birds in the Bible, and how much it takes to feed a house sparrow, we discover powerful truth in God's promise of provision.
Resources mentioned:
Eryn's new book, Rooted In Wonder: Nurturing Your Family's Faith Through God's Creation
Scriptures referenced in this episode:
“Through his power all things were made—things in heaven and on earth” Colossians 1:16“
"Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” Matthew 6:26"
"All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old.God, your thoughts are precious to me. They are so many!” Psalm 139:16-17
Discover more biblical truth taught through nature and free resources at ErynLynum.com
Mentioned in this episode:
Magnify: A Wild & Wonderful Summer Adventure by Nat Theo
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome listeners to the Nat Theo podcast, where we explore nature, the Bible, and how both of those work together to show us just how wonderful our Creator God is. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Erin Linum. I am a master naturalist and Bible teacher and I love teaching like Jesus did |
| 0:23.7 | through nature. Today we're going to look at what Jesus' favorite bird might have been. Do you |
| 0:31.9 | think Jesus had favorites in what he made? Did you even know that Jesus was at creation? |
| 0:39.3 | Colossians 116 when it's talking about Jesus it says that through his power, so |
| 0:44.3 | that's through Jesus power, all things were made, things in heaven and on earth. |
| 0:50.3 | And so we can actually know that Jesus was at creation with God. And I love thinking about Jesus |
| 0:58.1 | walking through creation after he made everything and listening to the songs of the birds that he |
| 1:05.2 | had just made. Or maybe he stared up at the clouds and thought about the shapes that reflected all he had made that week. |
| 1:12.6 | Have you ever done that? |
| 1:13.5 | Have you ever laid in the grass and just stared up at those clouds and thought, oh, that looks like a turtle or that looks like a snake? |
| 1:21.9 | I wonder if Jesus did that too, looking at the clouds and thinking, oh, that looks like that bird that I just made, or that |
| 1:27.9 | looks like the hyena or the camel or the giraffe. Or maybe he walked along the stream counting |
| 1:35.2 | frogs or fish. I love thinking about him enjoying nature like we do. So if Jesus did have favorite |
| 1:44.0 | things amid what he made, I have a guess as to what |
| 1:48.2 | his favorite bird might have been. But first, I have a question for you. Do you have a favorite |
| 1:55.6 | bird? In the bird watching world, sometimes we refer to our favorite bird as our spark bird. |
| 2:02.6 | And that's the bird that when we saw it, it sparked our interest in finding more birds. |
| 2:07.9 | So my spark bird is actually a black and white warbler. |
| 2:11.7 | I was walking along the river one day and there was this adorable little black and white bird hopping. Did you know birds hop? |
| 2:20.0 | It was hopping up this cottonwood tree. And I thought, I have never seen a bird like that before. |
| 2:25.9 | And so I looked it up and found that it was a black and white warbler who was migrating through. |
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