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Is It Healthier To Be An Optimist Or A Pessimist?
A Sermon Given by The Reverend Roger Fritts At the end of the 19th century Unitarians were optimists. We can see this in the hymns from that time some of which are still in our hymnal. Turn, for example, to hymn number 138, These Things Shall Be. Look at the words: These things shall be: […]
Dealing With Failure (Luke 5:1-11)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-172 (Devotional) DEALING WITH FAILURE – Luke 5:1-11 by Kim Thoday It is only natural that we want to succeed in life. Isn’t it wonderful when we achieve certain goals. As Christians it is especially inspiring when we see our hard labors blessed by God. Yet so often we also experience failure […]
Psalms On Sundays – 119:137-176
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-151 Sunday 04 Aug 2002 Reading – Psalm 119:137-176 RELEVANCE AND POWER ‘I’m ecstatic over what you say, like one who strikes it rich.'(Ps 119:161, The Message) Throughout the psalm, there has been a note of pleasure. The Law is not something to be obeyed out of a sense of duty. On […]
Psalms On Sundays: 124 – Despair & Salvation
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-177 Sunday 08 Sep 2002 Reading: Psalm 124 – DESPAIR AND SALVATION ‘Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.'(Ps 124:8, NRSV) Sometimes the situation seems utterly hopeless; there is nowhere to turn. I have just met a young man from a Muslim family; in a […]
7 Deadly Sins Of Bible Study
(~) 7 Deadly Sins of Bible Study (Part 1 of 7) Jack Kuhatschek for New Man magazine The Seven Deadly Sins of Bible Study A few years ago a friend showed me a prayer letter he had received in the mail. Inside were the following instructions: Take the prayer sheet I have sent you and […]
Guilt And God
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-179 (Expository Sermon) GUILT AND GOD (Psalm 32) by Rod Benson Have you ever sat in a cinema, watching a good movie, when suddenly someone projects a small red dot on the screen with a hand-held laser pointing device? I suppose it is one way for socially- challenged adolescents to express their […]
Releasing The Holy Spirit In My Life
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-153 (Topical Sermon) RELEASING THE HOLY SPIRIT IN MY LIFE by Rod Benson The first Baptist minister in Australia was a Scotsman named John McKaig, who trained in Yorkshire and served as a missionary to Ireland. Lack of success among the Irish led him to England, where he served as a pastor […]
Psalms On Sundays: 125 – Righteousness
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-182 Sunday 15 Sep 2002 Reading: Psalm 125 – RIGHTEOUSNESS AND OBEDIENCE ‘0 Lord, do good to those who are good, whose hearts are in tune with you.'(Ps 125:4, New Living Translation) Here is another psalm which works with the theme of trust in the face of difficulty. But hidden in the […]
Being Too Literal
Jack Kuhatschek for New Man magazine Being Too Literal Several years ago the cult expert Walter Martin was giving a lecture on a religious cult. A few members of the cult heard about the lecture and decided to attend. About halfway through the meeting, one of them stood up and began arguing that God the […]
Listening To The Lord
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-183 (Devotional) LISTENING TO THE LORD by Peter Kennedy “The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ Then Samuel said, ‘Speak, for your servant is listening.'” – 1 Samuel 3:10 In 1839, after years of service in South Africa, the famous missionary Robert Moffat returned to […]
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