Word

2Co 12.8-10

“For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

“To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

“To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:”

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Samuel Logan Brengle Quote

“Faith may see difficulties but it does not magnify them…

Faith may be sore tempted but it does not yield to discouragement…

faith obeys…real faith obeys when there is no sign.”

– Samuel Logan Brengle, from his book Resurrection Power

 

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Happy Contrast

Some little men may struggle forgiving you

a Mistake of the head.

God (happy contrast) readily forgives the

confessed Sin of the heart.

– eab, 5/20/11

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J D WEBB SR. (in the top 20 people who influenced my life)

J D WEBB SR. (He’s in the top 20 people who influenced my life.)

It’s one thing to set biographical note,

Recounting birth and marriage, and death,

Merely stating the facts as they go,

From first to the latest breath.

It’s another entirely to contemplate,

Selectively choose, accurately state,

The feelings, the memories,

The anchoring points, old man-to-young

Reflecting, grateful for impressions

Left, largely unsung.

He was old when we met, then I was ten,

(When anyone out of high school was old).

I was a Sunday School lad;

He was the Shepherd of the fold.

I could hear his bass from the platform ring

When he joined the congregation to sing.

And remember the morning

Obadiah was his Holy text,

Not expecting my nephew

Then two, to loudly say it next.

John Denver Webb was born when

Benjamin Harrison sat in the oval room.

He and Ike were a part

Of the eighteen-ninety “baby boom.”

While, Eisenhower’s “fifty-two” November,

Was the first campaign I remember.

Bro. Webb became, as I grew older,

(What “kid” likes old stuff?)

My cementing-link with history:

Great, and graceful, and gruff.

Why, he remembered boys going to war –

Teddy Roosevelt’s rough-riding boys!

His nineteen fourteen Cadillac, when two years old

Brought him great joys.

The open bi-plane introduced him to the sky,

He even saw Orville Wright fly,

And he ran the telegraph,

Once the life-line of the trains,

Before God saved and called him

Under old-time conviction pains.

His life covered that great early span of

Shelhamer and Rees, Culp, Fleming, and Ruth

He knew Charles Stalker; the man God saved,

And brightened his mind to truth.

And he shared a breakfast “spud,”

With that famous, Nazarene cowboy, Uncle Bud.

—

He slipped away on an October morn,

Away to heaven’s portal.

He changed old fleshly clothes, outworn,

Changed them for the immortal.     

– eab, Oct. ‘86

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Big Bigger …

It takes a big man to see the BIG PICTURE.

It takes a bigger man to see the BIG Picture, yet appreciate detail.

It takes an even bigger man to see the Big Picture and

not write off those who can’t see it.

– eab, 7/6/11

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