Devotion
What Does Love Mean?
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4- to 8-year-olds, “What does love mean?” The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined: “When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore, so my grandfather does it for her all the […]
Ordinary People
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-029 (Devotional) ORDINARY PEOPLE by Ron Clarke It’s all very well to be impressed by the contributions that are made by the world’s leaders, the great men and women, the five talent people who do things, and do things well, and who usually get the notice, the publicity, the praise and the […]
Good Soil
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-011 (Devotional) THE GOOD SOIL by Peter Kennedy “Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop–thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown.” – Mark 4:20 In the autumn of the year 1898, John H. Nicholson of Janesville, Wisconsin, came to the […]
God’s Patience With Us
by Dick Innes ~ ACTS International http://www.actsweb.org “For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little” (Isaiah 28:10). Do you ever feel like you are spinning your wheels, in all your efforts you don’t seem to be getting anywhere, or even perhaps […]
Mr Eternity
Hi Rowley, here are the basic details of the Mr Eternity story, as promised. I will undetake a major search of the archives for the original tract which I mentioned. On New Year’s Eve Sydney harbour bridge will light up in fireworks, and trumpet a single word around the world. ETERNITY ! To assist you […]
The Origin Of ‘The 12 Days Of Christmas’
Friends, I received the following today by e-mail. While it is not verified, it is an interesting piece: (From: X-From_: Mon Dec 13 12:21:03 1999) When most people hear of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" they think of the song. This song had its origins as a teaching tool to instruct young people in the […]
There Is A God, John, And It’s Not You
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-005 ‘THERE IS A GOD, JOHN, AND IT’S NOT YOU’ From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. James 4:10. Someone (presumably married to a John) put the above motto on […]
A Beautiful Mind
by David Smith “. . . whatever is true . . . think about such things.” (Philippians 4:8 NIV) We live in a very false world! Sometimes it seems like there is no end to the production of things that are fake. We constantly find ourselves leaning on things which are hollow and which let […]
A Resolution
A COVENANT PRAYER IN THE WESLEYAN TRADITION I AM NO LONGER my own, but thine. Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be employed by thee or laid aside for thee, exalted for thee or brought low by thee. Let […]
Appreciating The Spirit Of Wisdom
Religion in Daily Life © By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. Rector, All Saints’ Church http://www.allsaintstorresdale.org Oscar-winner Al Pacino downed his drink. The year was 1977. Just before he had that drink, a reformed drinking pal named Charlie said to him, “Just be aware of what you’re doing.” Pacino recalls, “Somehow those words rang. I […]
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