Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 9:10AM 
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
1 Peter 2:9-10 ESV
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 9:02PM Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart…. [E]ven if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:1, 3-6 ESV
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 7:09PM 
This is a Christmas card found in an English scrapbook preserving the years 1870-1880. The text around whatever it is riding the black porker reads “A Dead Heat for the Plate.” So, as far as I can tell, you have two hogs racing for my oven, one carrying a turkey on its back and one carrying what looks like nothing I’ve ever seen.
You thought they didn’t do humourous cards back then, didn’t you?
Don’t ask me to explain the joke to you. The best I can do is point out that it’s British humour, which might be all the explanation there is.
But surely there must be more. What’s your explanation?