Sunday, June 20, 2021

The Lad With The Loaves and Fishes

The Lad With The Loaves and Fishes
by Hannah Flagg Gould

When by Christ the throng were led
Up the lonely mountain's side,
Where the multitude were fed,
Who the wondrous food supplied?
Those five loaves and fishes two,
Which for thousands were to do-
Who the loaves and fishes brought
Whence the miracle was wrought?

Wife, nor maid, nor mother then
Might the rural feast prepare;
Not the young, nor white-haired men
Should provide the timely fare.
But a little Christian boy
For the work did Christ employ,
Pleased, his host of friends among,
To distinguish one so young.

Still doth Jesus love to count
Young disciples, fair and true,
Like the lad upon the mount
Where his early friends he drew.
Every little gift or deed
He can bless, like planted seed,
Or the barley-loaves of old,
To increase a thousand fold.

Though your gift be but a mite
Spared to send his word afar,
It may prove a ray of light
Spread and brightened to a star!
This the star of morn may be
O'er some land beyond the sea,
Opening up the shining way
Of the peaceful gospel day.

Little friends of Jesus, aim,
While your life is in the flower,
With his spirit, in his name,
To commend his love and power.
Emulate the Hebrew lad,
Who, imparting what he had,
Saw the wonders Christ could do,
And the moral left to you.

Love

" We love Him because He first loved us." John 4:19 KJV

Love one another. From The Christian Clip Art Review.

     If I were to ask one of you why it is that you love your father and mother, you wouldn't be able to tell me at first. There are so very many reasons why you love them that it is hard to talk about it. The greatest reason why you love them is because they first loved you. When you were very small and couldn't care for yourself, they loved you and did everything for you. They watched around you by day and by night, and gave you the good things that you needed, and taught you to do right. So you love them because they first loved you.
       That is the reason we love Jesus Christ. Because He first loved us. He gave us not only every good thing that we have but also He gave Himself for us.
       Long ago in the city of Lynchburg there was an Orphans' Home, and there was a boy who lived there about whom I am going to tell you. This boy had only one leg, and he is one of the finest little heroes I ever heard of.
       Many years ago they had a fire in the Orphanage and its buildings were all burned. This one-legged boy was then about fourteen years old. In the second story of one of the buildings there were some little girls when the fire started. In the confusion of trying to save the other children these little ones were forgotten. It was not long before the entire building was in flames. Then this little lame boy remembered them. He made up his mind that he would save them if he could. He found an old ladder and, after a hard struggle, set it up against the building, and dragged himself up on the roof of the porch. He broke a window and went in and carried out, one by one, five little girls. He put them out on the roof and told them to stand there till he could get down the ladder. One of them went back into the building and they never saw her again. The boy slid down the ladder and stood on a little pile of rocks at the bottom, and told them to jump, one at a time, and he would catch them. Then he braced himself the best he could. You know it is easy to plant your feet and brace yourself when you have two legs to stand on. But this little fellow had but one, and when those children jumped, he broke their fall; but each time a child dropped down into his arms he was knocked down flat on the rocks, and when the last one had jumped, the back of his head was battered and bleeding, where he had fallen on the sharp stones. When they found him he was unconscious, but he had saved the little girls.
       Don't you think that those children, as they grow older, must love the memory of that young hero? They love him because he first loved them and was willing to risk his life for them.
       That is what Jesus did. He loved us and gave Himself for us. Satan came to destroy us, as the wolf comes to destroy the sheep. Jesus was the good shepherd and came to fight against Satan, and save us. But He lost His life. That is why we love Him, He loved us and gave Himself for us. S. N. Hutchinson

"Oh The Deep, Deep Love of Jesus" 
sung by Audrey Assad

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Narcissus Flowers in Stained Glass


Description of The Coloring Page: Narcissus depicted in stained glass, greyscale of outside view in window panes, floral motif, plant life

A coloring page superimposed on top of a digitally traced stained glass window helps the person who is coloring to determine how and where to include a color gradient.

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Lilies in Stained Glass Window


Description of The Coloring Page: lilies depicted in stained glass, greyscale of outside view in window panes, floral motif, plant life, 

A coloring page superimposed on top of a digitally traced stained glass window helps the person who is coloring to determine how and where to include a color gradient.

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Monday, December 21, 2020

Color these mother's and their babies...

 

Description of The Coloring Pages: scriptures from the Book of Proverbs illustrated, African mothers and their infants, pottery, feeding the baby, bathing the baby, childcare, motherly love, scriptures included, "Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate." Proverbs 31:31 and "Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: 'Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all." Proverbs 31: 28-29



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David, as a shepherd boy coloring page...

Description of The Coloring Page: scripture reference from the Book of 1 Samuel, But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7, shepherd boy, harp, sheep, lambs, sandals, King David as a small boy

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Sunday, June 7, 2020

The Calling of James and John Coloring Page




Description of The Coloring Page: scripture reference from the Gospels of Mark, John and Matthew, disciples, apostles, Jesus, fishing boats, fishing village, fishing nets, by the sea

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Thursday, June 4, 2020

An Angel Appeared to Joseph In a Dream...

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Description of The Coloring Page: scripture reference, "As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit." Matthew 1:20 (NLT), Angel floating above Joseph's head while he sleeps

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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

2 Corinthians 5:17 Coloring Page

Description of The Coloring Page: butterfly, symbol of new life. heart shape, coloring page by kathy grimm

Scripture Reference: "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!" 2 Corinthians 5:17

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Color Belshazzar's Feast

Description of The Coloring Page: writing on the wall, hand of The Holy God, if you have not kept the law, the scales reveal all
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Color The Women at the Sepulchre

Description of The Coloring Page: grave, tomb where they lay Jesus, Angel, Easter morning, "He Has Risen!", The Three Marys
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Color Portraits of "The Jury" from Pilgrim's Progress

Description of The Coloring Page: Portraits of "The Jury" from Pilgrim's Progress. 

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