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Bad Grades (Tiger Woods) When you’re as high profile as Tiger Woods, you have to finesse your words just like your golf. In his first start since winning the 1997 Masters Championship, Tiger won the GTE Byron Nelson Classic “without his A-game.” He had taken a month off prior, and though he won the tournament, […]
Service, Not Survival
Christians called to service, not survival, Reccord says By Adam Myrick FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Ministers of the gospel are not called to survive; they are called to serve, said Bob Reccord, president of the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board, during a chapel at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 13. “God […]
End Of A Matter Is Better, The
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-204 (Practical Christian Living) THE END OF A MATTER IS BETTER by David Virtue “The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride. Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.” – Ecclesiastes 7:8-9 Jonas Salk was […]
Inspiration — Live Life To The Fullest
L I V E I T Today’s best advice from Christian books. http://liveit.crosswalk.com/ LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST Life is an accumulation of one’s choices. Both the good and the bad things are the result of repeated choices over the days, weeks, months, and years of your life. You reap what you sow – for […]
Worship: Mind And Spirit
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-211 MIND AND SPIRIT From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift! 2 Corinthians 9:15. Rudolf Otto explored the non-rational in religion and coined the word numinous to describe ‘the holy’ after words […]
Suffering
DAILY ENCOUNTER ~ Tuesday, September 12/00 by Dick Innes ~ ACTS International http://www.actsweb.org Partnering with NCF Ministries: http://www.ncfliving.org [1] WHY DO GOOD PEOPLE SUFFER? “But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold” (Job 23:10, NIV). A “Daily Encounter” reader shared how she heard a […]
Joy
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-209 (Theology) Living Words of the New Testament, by Rev Dr Leon Morris JOY “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice” wrote Paul (Phi1.4:4) and in so doing sounded one of the great notes of the New Testament. Jesus had, of course, said it before: “These things I have […]
Euphemisms For Sinner
Christian Quotation of the Day October 25, 2000 Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 The word “sinner” often proves a great obstacle to understanding, but let us use other words. Let us say that man is the kind of creature who naturally sees the world from a very limited perspective, that he […]
Balance Sheet Of Life
>) Balance Sheet of Life (Thomas J. Watson) Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM, didn’t believe the road to happiness and success was all that complicated. In fact, he often listed their components in balance sheet format. “Liabilities: Reactionary Ideas! Love of money! Unwholesome companions! Lax character! Lack of love for others! False Friends Assets […]
Village Mite, The
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-213 (Practical Christian Living) THE VILLAGE MITE A Story of Extravagant Giving By David W. Virtue We had pulled up to a small village in south central Nigeria. Our host, Canon Asun in company with the Bishop of Ibadan Joseph Akinfenwa wanted us to see not just the big and strategic churches […]
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