Linked Together: Wildlife

Bear Up
Did you know that grizzlies can use tools? Or maybe the headline should say one grizzly can use a stool? (CBC News)

Shooting Salmon
Here in my town, we use a fish ladder to get the returning salmon up and over the dam.

But some dams are too big to be scaled with a ladder, so they’ve invented a salmon cannon that can propel salmon 100 feet into the air and (hopefully) over the dam. 

(Update on the Whitehorse Rapids Fish Ladder: This year 1555 Chinook salmon have passed through. The run is winding down, so there won’t be many more. Thankfully, that’s a few hundred fish more than last year and the year before. Hopefully, it’s the start of an upward trend.)

Heidelberg Catechism

Question 50. Why is it added [in the Apostles’ Creed] “and sits at the right hand of God”?

Answer: Because Christ ascended into heaven for this purpose: to might show himself there as head of his church, (a) by whom the Father governs all things. (b)

(Scriptural proofs after the fold.)

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Sunday's Hymn: Whate'er My God Ordains Is Right

Whate’er my God ordains is right:
Holy his will abideth;
I will be still whate’er he doth;
And follow where he guideth:
He is my God: though dark my road,
He holds me that I shall not fall:
Wherefore to him I leave it all.

Whate’er my God ordains is right:
He never will deceive me;
He leads me by the proper path;
I know he will not leave me:
I take, content, what he hath sent;
His hand can turn my griefs away,
And patiently I wait his day.

Whate’er my God ordains is right:
Though now this cup, in drinking,
May bitter seem to my faint heart,
I take it, all unshrinking:
My God is true; each morn anew
Sweet comfort yet shall fill my heart,
And pain and sorrow shall depart.

Whate’er my God ordains is right:
Here shall my stand be taken;
Though sorrow, need, or death be mine,
Yet am I not forsaken;
My Father’s care is round me there;
He holds me that I shall not fall:
And so to him I leave it all.

—Samuel Rodigast translated by Catherine Winkworth

Updated tune with Catherine Winkworth translation

 The Lutheran tune and translation

Other hymns, worship songs, prayers, sermons excerpts, or quotes posted today:

• This Is My Father’s World at Graces Daily
• Always and All for Jesus at The Happy Wonderer
• Give Me Grace to See Beauty from Trevin Wax
• Fright of one sin is not repentance of all at Blogging Theologically
• Lifting Up Our Hearts - 37 at The Upward Call
• Natural Mirrors at Tried With Fire
• Lord’s Day 34, 2014 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your weekly dose of Spurgeon: The chief end of man at Pyromaniacs

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.