I hope you won’t mind if I indulge in another cat video. I have my reasons.
My cats do this all the time, trying to squeeze into tiny spaces.
Reminds me of the time I crawled inside a cement mixer. But I was only a wee lad then. I know better know.
Category: Video
A Treat for You: Funny Owls
Did you know owls could be cute and cuddly? I didn’t! (Then again, some of my best friends have been mice, who are not in the owls’ cheering section.)
Well, these owls are sweet, so let’s enjoy them.
By Request, ‘Soldiers of the Lion’
Posted once before, and now posted again by reader request: here you go, Linda.
Hymn, ‘The Love of God’
I don’t know if I’ve already used this hymn or not, but it’s the one I wanted today–The Love of God, performed by Nathan and Lyle and family members whose names I haven’t learned yet. A hundred years old, this hymn is. May it fortify us in God’s spirit against the evil news of these times.
By Request, ‘I Know Whom I Have Believed’
Okay, Linda, here’s the hymn you asked for–I Know Whom I Have Believed, sung by Marshall Hall. Complete with saxophone solo.
Somehow this made me remember the most embarrassing moment in my whole life, which occurred during a service at our Dutch Reformed Church.
I can’t remember exactly why, but something convinced me that this particular service was intended to be in dramatic contrast to our usually staid and orderly procedure–that today we were supposed to have the congregation get enthusiastically involved in the business. So the minister read a verse, and I stood up and shouted “Hallelujah!”
Alone.
And every single eye in the congregation zeroed in on me–which is practically the last thing on earth that any 17-year-old ever wants to happen.
I hope I don’t dream about it tonight.
Memory Lane: ‘The Sons of Hercules’ Theme Song
Time to retreat back into the past!
Today’s ramble down Memory Lane has taken me to revisit The Sons of Hercules, an anthology of low-budget Italian movies chopped up to fit into a TV time slot. This was probably my favorite TV show of my early teens. It also provided decent jobs for a lot of underemployed body-builders, so don’t knock it.
You’ve just gotta love this theme music. Well, okay, you don’t have to. We aren’t all cut out to appreciate gems like Mole Men vs. the Son of Hercules. It takes a discerning palate. Like mine.
Sing It Loud! The Mighty Power of God
I Sing the Mighty Power of God–this is one of my all-time favorite hymns, and I make no apology for posting it again.
Everybody, come on! Everybody! What would happen if all Christians sang, or prayed, or called out Jesus’ name, at once?
This page is open to all readers to suggest hymns. So far, only a few of you have taken advantage of it. I can count you without running out of fingers.
Just now, at the church across the street, they’re playing bagpipes (must be a funeral), which makes the cats growl and run upstairs to hide under the bed. So they’re not asking me for hymns, either.
Hymn, ‘God is Our Refuge’
This is Psalm 46, set to music and performed by the UMC Sanctuary Choir.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble;
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and the mountains be carried into the depth of the sea…
Turn up the volume.
Hymn, ‘Draw Me Nearer’
I don’t know about you, but I need a hymn.
Here we have Draw Me Nearer, a classic hymn by Fanny Crosby still loved and sung today.May God hear it as a prayer!
By Request, ‘The Ninety and Nine’
Thanks, Susan, for calling for this one–The Ninety and Nine, sung with an awful lot of power by Tennessee Ernie Ford.
“The ninety and nine” refer to the sheep who were not lost, in Jesus’ parable of the good shepherd and the one lost sheep.
Hey, everybody! Our Savior comes out looking for us, if one of us gets lost! And he keeps looking until He finds you, too!
Does your god do that?