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Enthusiasm
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-248 (Devotional) ENTHUSIASM (Matthew 10:39) by Kim Thoday A person who is enthusiastic has the power to inspire and motivate. The word enthuse is built upon two ancient Greek words: en (in) and theos (God). To be enthusiastic is literally to be in God. Charles Schwabb, the American Industrialist who rose from […]
What Makes Your Christmas Merry?
Religion in Daily Life By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. Rector, All Saints’ Church http://www.allsaintstorresdale.org How would you punctuate the familiar Christmas Carol’s first line? Would you write, “God rest you, merry gentlemen?” Or would you write, “God rest you merry, gentlemen?” The latter is the correct punctuation. The carol greets the gentlemen with the […]
Seeing The Light
John 9:1-38 If you wake up tomorrow and discover that your pyjamas are on backwards, it’s possible, says one writer, that aliens abducted you during the night. The author, John Mack, doesn’t write for some supermarket tabloid. He’s a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and he won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1977 […]
Keep Your Fork
There was a young woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. So as she was getting her things “in order,” she contacted her pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes. She told him which songs she […]
Babies Can Tip The Scales
Religion in Daily Life © By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. Sunday, 15 December 2002 http://www.allsaintstorresdale.org A certain king dreamed about a huge pair of scales held in the hand of Justice. The scales reached from earth to sky. On one side of the scales was piled gold, jewels, houses, and lands-symbols of material power. […]
Father Made Known, The
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-253 Christmas Day 2002 Reading: John 1:1-18 – THE FATHER MADE KNOWN ‘And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifest in the flesh.'(Tim 3:16,AV) Bow in wonder and worship. With a deliberate allusion to Cenesis 1:1, John introduces the eternal Word, one with God yet distinct from him. […]
Busy?
Satan called a world wide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels, he said, “we can’t keep Christians from going to church. “We can’t keep them from reading their bibles and knowing the truth. We cant’t even keep them from forming an intimate abiding relationship experience in Christ. If they gain that connection […]
Examining The Name Of Jesus
Religion in Daily Life By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. Rector, All Saints’ Church http://www.allsaintstorresdale.org January 1 is the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. As we think about him, look at the letters of his name. Those letters tell us much about him. The first letter of the name “Jesus” is “J” and […]
Getting Music From Life’s Storms
Religion in Daily Life © By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. http://www.allsaintstorresdale.org A young Arab boy walked his village street playing a flute. He had made the flute from an old gun barrel. He found the gun on the nearby battlefield of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In late 1947, the UN planned to divide the […]
Gate Of The Year
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-001 (Practical Christian Living) THE GATE OF THE YEAR by Ron Clarke “And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ And he replied: ‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the […]
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