Your Face?

People used to wear plain clothing

          but have character in their face.

 

Now their tee-shirt “speaks”

          but their face is generic.

– eab, 5/91

IF TREES TALKED

An ever greening pine, standing tall, and oh so fine,

Once made a remark, insidious.

Its neighbor down the hill, of whom it spoke ill,

Was a lone winter deciduous.

          – eab, 7/12/76

L D Wilcox – birth, Jul. 12, 1907

…God is ready to share His holiness with men…

                      – L. D. Wilcox, Profiles in Wesleyan Theology (Salem, OH: Schmul, 1985), 67.

 

He [man] is free to choose how he will act, but

            he is not free to choose the results of this action.                       

                    – L. D. Wilcox, Profiles in Wesleyan Theology (Salem, OH: Schmul, 1985), 136.

 

The term original sin was a term first used by the Calvinists…

                    – L. D. Wilcox, Profiles in Wesleyan Theology (Salem, OH: Schmul, 1985), 157.

 

Man’s departure from God was voluntary;

            his return must likewise be voluntary.

                    – L. D. Wilcox, Profiles in Wesleyan Theology (Salem, OH: Schmul, 1985), 200.

 

A foreigner won’t likely invest in real estate…he doesn’t intend to stay…picture of the Christian and his lack of interest in earthly values.

                    – L. D. Wilcox, Profiles in Wesleyan Theology (Salem, OH: Schmul, 1985), 275.

 

Leslie D (L D) Wilcox was born this date, 7/12/1907 at Silver Creek, NY. His parents and siblings were all converted to Christ in the same Wesleyan Methodist revival in January, 1924.  He entered God’s Bible School in 1927 (later taught there for 25 years) and received an MA from University of Cincinnati.  He married Ruth Grode and was the father of Paul and Lucile.  

 

Wilcox pastored sixteen years and was president of Ohio Conference sixteen years, both with the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of Churches.  Later he was an officer in the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches.

 

He authored Power from on High (n.d.), Beyond the Gate (1961),

                                    Be Ye Holy (1965), Profiles in Wesleyan Theology (3 vol.,1985).  He died 12/2/1991, in South Carolina.

You or GOD?

We lift up GOD –

          as we go down,

 

We pull GOD down –  

          as we put ourselves up.

                      – eab, 2/25/79

Choices

He chose a life-style rotten to the core;

He got his life-style plus a little more.

He got sickness and loss of breath,

He got illness and eventual death.

Watch choices – they may multiply by four.

          – eab, 7/11/08

Jim Elliot – wrote, Jul. 11, 1952

“Teach me, Lord Jesus…not to be hungering for the ‘strange and peculiar’ when the common, ordinary, and regular, rightly taken, will suffice to feed and satisfy the soul.”

 Jim Elliot wrote this 7/11/1952, in his journal.  He, along with Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, Nate Saint, and Roger Youderian were martyred in Ecuador in 1956.

Sin

It should be the greatest of all desires

                              to avoid all sin

 

          – sin is the one thing that will keep

                             us out of heaven.

– eab, 12/14/99

Martha M Scarbrough Bryan – birth, Jul. 10, 1942

WIFE [1]

I married you in my happy youth,

Wife of my first love.

And year by year, I know the truth,

Our union was from above.

 

Because in you I find the arts

That I admire the most.

And our desires for united hearts

Are not an idle boast.

 

The habits and joys of one of us,

Are always some how shared,

And the burdens – come what must -

Are likewise mutually beared.

 

Yes, and you’ve the traits and likes

That a mother always needs.

To keep sweet, our sweet young “tikes,”

Blessed, little seeds.

 

So all in all, my love sweet,

You make a fine mate.

And if you’ll allow one repeat,

You make a fine mate.               – eab, 12/18/66

 

 

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^[1] I graduated from high school May 30^th and married Martha Mae Scarbrough June 30^th 1961. Married in Maryville, Tennessee, her home town and in church I pastored 1974-75.

Phoebe Palmer Knapp – death, Jul 10, 1908

“The Cleansing Wave”

 Oh, now I see the cleansing wave!
The fountain deep and wide;
Jesus, my Lord, mighty to save,
Points to His wounded side.

 

Refrain

The cleansing stream I see! I see!
I plunge, and oh, it cleanseth me!
Oh, praise the Lord! It cleanseth me!
It cleanseth me—yes, cleanseth me.

 2.

I rise to walk in Heav’n’s own light,
Above the world and sin,
With heart made pure and garments white,
And Christ enthroned within.

3.

I see the new creation rise;
I hear the speaking blood.
It speaks! Polluted nature dies!
Sinks ’neath the cleansing flood.

4.

Amazing grace! ’tis Heav’n below
To feel the blood applied,
And Jesus, only Jesus know,
My Jesus crucified.

Phoebe Palmer Knapp died this date, 7/10/1908.   She was born, 3/9/1839, the daughter Dr. and Mrs. Wal­ter C. Palm­er (Phoebe).   At sixteen years of age she married Joseph Fair­field Knapp, an official of Met­ro­pol­i­tan Life In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny.   They were Methodists.

Which do you want?

Does your theology give you freedom from sin

 

          – OR freedom to sin?

 

                      – eab, 2/26/07