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Powers of Observation
March 8, 2025
Powers of Observation When I come home from visiting, my wife will ask me questions about colors or items I noticed. I don’t notice much of anything. However, I am able to notice details in Scripture text after years of practice. In the television show “Elementary” from about ten years ago, Sherlock has powers of […]
continue reading...Everyone in Distress, in Debt, or Discontented (1 Samuel 22:2)
February 27, 2025
Everyone in Distress, in Debt, or Discontented (1 Samuel 22:2) I may be the weird one, but this little triplet from David’s experience of fleeing Saul grabs me. The alliteration helps, but I am impressed again with how God works so much differently than does the world. Think of an exercise in team-building. Maybe you […]
continue reading...This Mob-ocractic Spirit
February 20, 2025
This Mob-ocractic Spirit It is dangerous to pluck a phase from the news, but not quite so dangerous if the phrase showed up in a speech back in the earlier 1800’s by Abraham Lincoln quite a while before he became President and thus before the Civil War. He included it in a speech to a […]
continue reading...February 15, 2025
Whiter than Snow There is a beautiful verse in Isaiah 1 that uses snow’s whiteness as a word picture. I don’t know how in the world that phrase came to mind here at the halfway point of February, but let’s not talk about the weather. Let’s talk about the Gospel. The verse goes like this: […]
continue reading...Staph Meeting
February 7, 2025
Staph Meeting I was sitting all alone in a coffee shop with this laptop, deep in thought about something or other. A couple of older ladies sat to my left. I’m not sure how old, maybe my age. But then I saw him, a man with a book, a discussion book. He started to pull […]
continue reading...Worm’s Eye View
January 29, 2025
Worm’s Eye View I learned in art class about perspective, and the difference between the worm’s eye view vs. the eagle’s eye view. The picture will look much different depending on the chosen perspective. I’ve been reading a collection of sermons written by Christopher Love of England in the 1600’s. He died in his 30’s, […]
continue reading...Great Cry and Little Wool
January 24, 2025
Great Cry and Little Wool It won’t surprise you, if you have read recently, that I am dipping from the well once again of C.H. Spurgeon and his John Ploughman’s Pictures. The artwork at the beginning of the present chapter shows a man shearing his animal in order to collect wool. The problem is that […]
continue reading...Don’t Cut Off your Nose to Spite your Face
January 16, 2025
Don’t Cut Off your Nose to Spite your Face Spurgeon, in the voice of John Ploughman, says” Anger is a short madness. The less we do when we go mad the better for everybody, and the less we go mad the better for ourselves. He is far gone who hurts himself to wreak his vengeance […]
continue reading...The Value of a Mirror
January 10, 2025
The Value of a Mirror I have spoken recently of figures of speech, and the Bible is full of them. James talks about a man looking in a mirror, but as soon as he walks away, “he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was” (Jas 1:24). Spurgeon in his John Ploughman’s Pictures tells […]
continue reading...If your Thoughts only Flow by Drops, You Can’t Pour them out in Bucketfuls
December 28, 2024
If your Thoughts only Flow by Drops, You Can’t Pour them out in Bucketfuls There is a book called John Ploughman’s Pictures published back in the 1890’s, or about the time my Grandpa Swayze was born. It was written by C.H. Spurgeon and was part of Moody’s Colportage Library. Spurgeon was a great English preacher, […]
continue reading... - “Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart and soul to God, through Christ, with the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to the Word, for the good of the church, with submission, in faith, to the will of God.” - John Bunyan
