He is a Suffering Savior

Walker and Warren Brosi

June 21, 2026 (Father’s Day)

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Years ago, a preacher named Boyce Mouton, from Carl Junction, Missouri shared the following poem with some junior high students at a camp.  We know that Mary had a little lamb, but did you know she also had a little pig.

Mary had a Little Pig by Boyce Mouton:

Mary had a little pig, and it was white as snow, That is when it had had a bath, as you of course might know. But Mary had an awful time to keep the piggy clean, For it was just the dirtiest pig that one has ever seen.  [Show pig in mud pic.]

She’d wash him and she’d scrub him, till he would squirm and squeal, As if he wanted her to know it was an unfair deal. And then inside his green backyard he’d play from morn to night, Unless he happened to sneak out and lose himself from sight.

And then when Mary found him, he’d be blacker than ere before, So Mary’d get the soap again and scrub the pig some more. Poor Mary thought and wondered much what she could ever do Until she figured out a plan, and this she carried through.

She took him to a doctor who put the pig to sleep, and then he Took his heart right out, but not of course to keep. And then he took a little lamb and took his heart out too And put it in the little pig before the piggy knew.

When little piggy did awake, he had no more desire To wallow in the mud again or ever in the mire.  [Show clean pig pic.] And try as hard as ere he could he never understood, How such a pig as once he was could ever be so good.

And so, you see, dear friends of mine, you need a new heart too, Just like the little piggy did, the old will never do.

Boyce Mouton, “Mary Had a Little Pig” 

He told the poem to jr. high boys.  One of the boys asked Boyce, “Mr., what happened to the lamb?”    [Show lamb pic.] Boyce said, “That’s heavy too, for he was pierced for our transgression and crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was upon him and by his wounds we are healed” (He quoted Isaiah 53).