The Word

“Moses Smashing the Tablets of the Law” by Rembrandt (1659) is a painting in the collection of The Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. (Public Domain)  “Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly […]

“Conversion on the Way to Damascus” by Caravaggio (cir. 1600) is a painting in the collection of the Santa Maria del Popolo church, Rome, Italy (Public Domain)  A good name is rather to be chosen […]

“Saint Paul Writing His Epistles” by Valentin de Boulogne (circa 1618) is a painting in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. (Public Domain)   God’s purposes never miscarry. Paul was to go […]

George Washington Crossing The Delaware by Emanuel Leutze in 1851. Creative Commons Reputation is what a man’s neighbors and friends think of him.  Character is what the man IS. Character is personal. It is not […]

“Parable of the Wheat and the Tares” by Abraham Bloemart (1624) is a Baroque period painting in the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. (Public Domain | CC0 1.0)  Another parable put he […]

“The Gleaners” by Jean-François Millet (1857) is a painting in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. (Public Domain)  While God’s gifts are in our hands, they are to be employed not for ourselves alone, […]

“Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776” by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (circa 1921). The painting is part of a series of 78 scenes from American history titled “The Pageant of a Nation” — the largest […]

PHOTO CAPTION: “Parable of the Talents” by Willem de Poorter (circa 1650) in the collection of the National Gallery Prague. (Public Domain)  “His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou […]

“Children Playing on the Beach” by Mary Cassatt (1884) in the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Public Domain)   “He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, […]