Devotion
Be Sure Your Lies Will Find You Out
A store manager overheard a clerk saying to a customer, “No, ma’am, we haven’t had any for some weeks now, and it doesn’t look as if we’ll be getting any soon.” Alarmed, the manager rushed over to the customer who was walking out the door and said, “That isn’t true, ma’am. Of course, we’ll have […]
Talking
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-194 TALKING From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check… James 3:2. It’s now official: a Manchester University study has found women talk more […]
Encouragement
Sample of Daily Encounter by Dick Innes “But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness” (Hebrews 3:13, NIV). In “Character Counts” Michael Josephson shares how the students at Sandy’s high school were badly shaken by the news that a classmate […]
Child’s 57 Cents, A
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 965 (Brief) A CHILD’S 57 CENTS A sobbing little girl stood near a small church from which she had been turned away because it ‘was too crowded’. “I can’t go to Sunday School,” she sobbed to the pastor as he walked by. Seeing her shabby, unkempt appearance, the pastor guessed the reason […]
Attitude
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, […]
Tears Of Grief
From Nikolaos P. Vassiliadis (The Mystery of Death, Chapter 12: Overcoming the Fear of Death; The Brotherhood of Orthodox Theologians pg. 249): “… our holy Church does not forbid tears for the dead. It does not condemn this sorrow… After all, Christ Himself demonstrated this; He wept over Lazarus. This, you, too, can do; shed […]
Interview With God
by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown I dreamed I had an interview with God. “Come in,” God said. “So, you would like to interview Me?” “If you have the time,” I said. God smiled and said “My time is eternity. It is enough to do everything. What questions do you have in mind to ask me?” […]
Lovers Of Pleasure More Than Lovers Of God
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-178 LOVERS OF PLEASURE MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Whoever loves pleasure will suffer want; whoever loves wine and oil will not be rich. We ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves […]
Self-Love
From St. Maximos the Confessor (Second Century on Love no. 59, The Philokalia Vol. 2 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 75): “Guard yourself from that mother of vices, self-love, which is mindless love for the body. For it gives birth with specious justification to the three first and most general […]
Mystery Of The Cosmos
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-188 (Devotional) THE MYSTERY OF THE COSMOS (Jeremiah 31:20) by Kim Thoday The big orange sun fell into its hole in the ground. A cool, still, summer evening in the bush. Some leftover solar rays rush around for somewhere to hide, fading into obscurity. Someone is switching on little lights that hang […]
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