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Mark 1:21-28

What a Surprise

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Mark 1:21-28
What a Surprise

By Lois Parker Edstrom

Object suggested: A yardstick.

Isn’t it exciting to learn new things? New information can be so surprising you feel like saying, “Wow, I didn’t know that!”

Would it surprise you to know that a giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue? A giraffe’s tongue if 21 inches long. (Demonstrate length with a yardstick.) We sure can’t do that!

Here are some other animal facts that might surprise you:

Ants don’t sleep.

Rabbits love licorice.

Cows produce about forty glasses of milk every day.

Bees have five eyes.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Camels have three eyelids to protect their eyes from desert sand.

The original name of the butterfly was flutterby. Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

Some of this information is quite surprising, isn’t it?

The Bible teaches us that when Jesus taught in the synagogue he said some surprising things. He gave people new information that they hadn’t hear before. Jesus brought the “good news” of God’s love to all people and he also had the power to heal.

The people who heard him and saw him perform miracles of healing were astounded and amazed and they asked, “What is this? A new teaching?” (1:27).

Today some may still feel surprised by the good news that God loves us, but as Christians we believe this is true.

Scripture quotations from the World English Bible

Copyright 2009, Richard Niell Donovan