Title: Where Ravens Soar
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: 1 Kings 17: 1-6
I - The Remarkable Marvel of Ravens
II - The Certifiable Mention of Ravens
III - The Admirable Ministry of Ravens
IV - The Impeccable Message of Ravens
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Raven Anecdote
Earlier this week I wrote about a new study into the impressive range of raven intelligence. Lots of people wrote to me or commented on Raven Reasoning with their own first-hand stories of raven cleverness.
So now I'm inspired to tell my favorite raven story, the ravens of Mount Seymour are well known for their lunch and snack stealing prowess. On almost every hiking or snowshoeing trip there we've witnessed a skillful heist of one sort or another, with prizes ranging from sandwiches to chocolate bars to full party-sized bags of chips.
But this one incident stands out, it was winter and we'd snowshoed to a popular destination where people always rest to take in the view out over Vancouver and eat their lunch. We'd eaten ours and were about to head back down, but we stopped to talk to a group of six people who were still eating.
A pair of ravens were nonchalantly strolling about nearby.
One of the men in the group fixed the ravens with a stern gaze and recounted how they'd stolen his sandwich on the last trip. "Never again," he asserted. With a flourish, he took the remaining half of his sandwich and pushed it well into the depths of the backpack lying close beside him.
As we were chatting, I had one eye on a raven (as I always do) and was just halfway through uttering the phrase, "I think this raven is casing the joint," when in a move too quick for human eye to follow, the raven darted right through the middle of this large group of raven-suspicious humans, unhesitatingly plunged his head far into the man's backpack, and flew off with his prize.
There may have been a raven cackle as he disappeared into the distance.
The ...
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: 1 Kings 17: 1-6
I - The Remarkable Marvel of Ravens
II - The Certifiable Mention of Ravens
III - The Admirable Ministry of Ravens
IV - The Impeccable Message of Ravens
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Raven Anecdote
Earlier this week I wrote about a new study into the impressive range of raven intelligence. Lots of people wrote to me or commented on Raven Reasoning with their own first-hand stories of raven cleverness.
So now I'm inspired to tell my favorite raven story, the ravens of Mount Seymour are well known for their lunch and snack stealing prowess. On almost every hiking or snowshoeing trip there we've witnessed a skillful heist of one sort or another, with prizes ranging from sandwiches to chocolate bars to full party-sized bags of chips.
But this one incident stands out, it was winter and we'd snowshoed to a popular destination where people always rest to take in the view out over Vancouver and eat their lunch. We'd eaten ours and were about to head back down, but we stopped to talk to a group of six people who were still eating.
A pair of ravens were nonchalantly strolling about nearby.
One of the men in the group fixed the ravens with a stern gaze and recounted how they'd stolen his sandwich on the last trip. "Never again," he asserted. With a flourish, he took the remaining half of his sandwich and pushed it well into the depths of the backpack lying close beside him.
As we were chatting, I had one eye on a raven (as I always do) and was just halfway through uttering the phrase, "I think this raven is casing the joint," when in a move too quick for human eye to follow, the raven darted right through the middle of this large group of raven-suspicious humans, unhesitatingly plunged his head far into the man's backpack, and flew off with his prize.
There may have been a raven cackle as he disappeared into the distance.
The ...
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