Working Church Members

Henry Ward Beecher was once about to take a ride behind a horse which he had hired from a livery stable. He regarded the horse admiringly, and remarked: “That is a fine-looking animal. Is he as good as he looks?” The owner replied: “Mr. Beecher, that horse will work in any place you put him, and do all that any horse can do.” The preacher eyed the horse still more admiringly, and then remarked: “I wish to goodness he was a member of my church!”

–Louis Albert Banks.

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“Enter through the narrow gate”

"Enter through the narrow gate," by Kathy Grimm

Menno Simons

Menno Simons graphic by Kathy Grimm

Menno Simons (1496 – 31 January 1561) was an Anabaptist religious leader from the Friesland region of the Low Countries. Simons was a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers and his followers became known as Mennonites. “Menno Simons” is a dutchification; his actual, Frisian name was Minne Simens.

• Menno Simons in Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
• Prints Bibliotheca Mennonitica Amsterdam: Doopsgezinde prenten
• Menno Simons. Life, writings, images and links
• Menno Simons Biography from the Church of the Brethren.net
• Dr Victor Shepherd (2001). “Chapter 10: Menno Simons (1496 – 1561)”. Witnesses to the Word. Toronto: Clements Pub.. ISBN 189466700X.
• A Foundation and Plain Instruction of the Saving Doctrine of Our Lord Jesus Christ

John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe graphic by Kathy Grimm

John Wycliffe  (c. 1328 – December 31, 1384) was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher at Oxford in England, who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. His followers were known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached anticlerical and biblically-centred reforms. The Lollard movement, was a precursor to the Protestant Reformation (for this reason, Wycliffe is sometimes called “The Morning Star of the Reformation”). He was one of the earliest opponents of papal authority influencing secular power.

Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible into the common language. He completed his translation directly from the Vulgate into vernacular English in the year 1382, now known as Wycliffe’s Bible. It is probable that he personally translated the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; and it is possible he translated the entire New Testament, while his associates translated the Old Testament. Wycliffe’s Bible appears to have been completed by 1384, with additional updated versions being done by Wycliffe’s assistant John Purvey and others in 1388 and 1395.

•  ”John Wyclif“. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
• Wyclif’s Political Thought
• BBC radio 4 discussion from In Our Time. “John Wyclif and the Lollards”. (45 mins)
•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). “Wycliffe, John“. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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“I Thirst.”

"I Thirst." by Kathy Grimm

Footprints In Plaster

Footprints In Plaster by Kathy Grimm

“Praise The Lord!”

"Praise The Lord!" by Kathy Grimm

Intuition
What is true in music, according to R. H. Haweis, is equally true of all intuitive processes:

“To accompany well you must not only be a good musician, but you must be mesmeric, sympathetic, intuitive. You must know what I want before I tell you; you must feel which way my spirit sets, for the motions of the soul are swift as an angel’s flight. I can not pause in those quick and subtle transitions of emotion, fancy passion, to tell you a secret; if it is not yours already, you are unworthy of it. Your finishing lessons in music can do nothing for you. Your case is hopeless. You have not enough music in you to know that you are a failure.”

Rabbit Quotes for Silly Folk

“Do not rely on a rabbit’s foot for luck, after all, it didn’t work out too well for the rabbit.”

“You’ll wake up on Easter morning, and you’ll know that he was there, when you find those choc’late bunnies, that he’s hiding ev’rywhere.”

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“Papoose,” first version

"Papoose," first version by Kathy Grimm

Vintage Bride

Vintage Bride by Kathy Grimm