Composed by Isaac Watts in 1715, I Sing the Mighty Power of God still has power to stir our souls. Sung here in glorious harmony by the Ball Brothers.
Category: Video
Cats & Bunnies
These unlikely animal friendships seem less unlikely by the day. Cats and rabbits–who would’ve thought it? And I’m sure this is the first time I’ve ever seen a bunny chasing a cat–all in fun, though.
By Request, ‘It Is No Secret What God Can Do’
Suggested by Erlene, It Is No Secret What God Can Do, sung by Jim Reeves–and thank you so much, Erlene: it was kind of nice for me to hear this, just now. Very comforting! And very nice to have you back with us.
Can You Read These Dogs’ Minds?
Short and accurate answer: of course not. Go ahead, explain why a big, strong, healthy dog should go bananas at the sight of a little piece of orange peel. Dogs’ minds are much too complex for us to read them.
‘He Leadeth Me’ (The Martins)
This is the hymn that was on my mind last night, He Leadeth Me, another old Sunday school favorite. The Martins perform it with no musical instrument but their voices–very nice, very nice. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord.
‘Hiring a Social Justice Warrior’
I keep telling you we’re going to have a colossal social problem, trying to figure out what to do with millions of college graduates who are unemployable, ignorant, confrontational, lazy, and, in the words of the personnel guy in this video, “insufferably annoying.”
And that’s putting it mildly.
How to Wake a Sleepy Cat
I wonder if the world is changing. My dog Rags used to pretend to be asleep, tricking the birds into coming down to steal his dog food. Then he’d catch them and eat them. I don’t know why he did that.
But here’s a little bird determined to wake a sleepy cat, and the cat puts up with him without showing the slightest inclination to eat him. Who thought a cat and a parakeet could be friends?
Another little glimpse of what God’s Kingdom looks like.
Memory Lane: Green Stamps
Remember S&H Green Stamps? They were a big deal in the Fifties and Sixties. A marketing ploy, you know: attract people to the store. You’d get them at the supermarket, gas station, or wherever else, save them in a Green Stamp book, and turn the books in for all sorts of gifts. Including–so says the guy in this commercial–a freakin’ cabin cruiser. He doesn’t say how many books that would take.
Soupy Sales had a catchy little song: “How do I get me a Cadillac car? Green stamps, green stamps! How do I get me a Cadillac car? Fill up a green stamp book!”
My folks saved Green Stamps. We got a football once. Too bad we didn’t get a cabin cruiser. My father would’ve liked that.
Green Stamps were discontinued in the 1980s. So if you were saving up for a bowling alley, I’m afraid you’re out of luck.
The Passing of Sweet Things
Someone made this beautiful video “for my babies,” with the Kingston Trio singing Turn Around.
There’s something poignant about still photographs. They go straight to the heart.
I’ve never had children, so I haven’t experienced the bittersweetness of raising them; but I was a child, so I can look at it through the other end of the telescope. Almost everyone who was part of my childhood is now dead. Even my two earliest friends. And almost all the places I knew as a child have been torn away and paved over. One becomes a stranger in the earth.
God’s word, God’s love, God’s power, God’s promises–the Lord alone is our defense. He alone can carry the burden with ease. Let this passage from the Bible, only one of many, suffice for the moment.
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven… that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
“Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.” –2 Corinthians 4:17-18, 5:1-5
Wrought us for the selfsame thing–God created us to have eternal life! That’s why we’re here.
And that whole business of goodness and sweetness passing away–that will have no place in His Kingdom.
By Request, ‘Today Your Mercy Calls Us’
“Thewhiterabbit” asked for this one, Today Your Mercy Calls Us. I had a rather nice video recorded during a live church service, but couldn’t use it because the guy’s battery died before the song was finished. So I hope you like this kind of old-fashioned treatment, courtesy of “Hymns of the Month.”