Devotion
We Do Have Choices
Sample of Daily Encounter by Dick Innes “Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care … not lording it over those entrusted to you” (1 Peter 5:2- 3, NIV). Em Griffin, author of The Mind Changers, tells about a good friend from the University of Michigan who went as a medical missionary to […]
How To Stop Worrying And Start Living
Hi friends, I was about to embark on the laborious task of summarizing one of the best commonsense books on Worry in the English language – Dale Carnegie’s ‘How to Stop Worrying and Start Living’ (World’s Book 1948) and a Google search found that Carnegie had done the job himself! Whoopee! (Don’t need to worry […]
Words Of Wisdom
“The grass is always greener when you remember to water it.” — Unknown “The secret of good golf is to hit the ball hard, straight and not too often.” — Unknown “A bird does not sing because it has an answer-it sings because it has a song.” — Unknown “To love is not to look […]
Persons Matter More Than Anything Else!
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-015 PERSONS MATTER MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE! From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. It was a sabbath day when Jesus… opened his eyes. John 9:14. Read: John 9:13-34. A legalistic mind works like this: The law of Moses says […]
Most Important Question
During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning […]
Quotations About Hope
—————————————————————————- —- Life with Christ is an endless hope, without Him a hopless end. Anonymous —————————————————————————- —- A religious Hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings, but makes her rejoice in them. Joseph Addison —————————————————————————- —- When you say that a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the […]
Come To The Edge
“But Lord, I don’t like it on the edge.” I answered. “Come to the edge.” “I’m afraid of the edge!” “Come to the edge.” “But what if I come to the edge and I fall off?” “Trust me. Come to the edge.” “I trust you, Lord.” I went to the edge…and He pushed me off… […]
Trashing The Truth
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-018 (Apologetics and Social Issues) BreakPoint with Charles Colson: Commentary #020111 – 01/11/2002 THE WILD LIE: TRASHING THE TRUTH It was the latest example of what’s become an epidemic of dishonesty. A few days ago, historian Stephen Ambrose admitted that in his new book, THE WILD BLUE, he’d lifted passages from an […]
The Ultimate Sacrifice
The day is over, you are driving home. You tune in your radio. You hear a little blurb about a little village in India where some villagers have died suddenly, strangely, of a flu that has never been seen before. It’s not influenza, but three of four people are dead, and it’s kind of interesting, […]
Words Of Wisdom
1. The best way to get even is to forget. 2. Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death. 3. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts. 4. Some marriages are made in heaven, but they ALL have to be maintained on earth. 5. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks […]
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