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Friendship Preservers
Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Colossians 3:13. An apology, Is a friendship preserver, Is often a debt of honour, Is never a sign of weakness, Is an antidote for hatred, Costs nothing but […]
I Am Most Richly Blessed
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, Bless his holy name. Psalm 103:1 Today, in our prayer, perhaps we can say aloud the well-known words written by an unknown Confederate soldier: I asked for strength, that I might achieve, I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey. […]
Read The Classics
[Your king] shall… read! Deuteronomy 17:18-19. It was C.S.Lewis, I think, who coined the phrase ‘chronological snobbery’: ‘new equals better, the old is passe’. Best-selling books in our pragmatic age tell us ‘How to do it’. The classics rather ask ‘Why?’ or ‘What?’ Ruskin talked about ‘books of the hour, and books of the ages’. […]
Games Christians Play
The tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits… From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so. James 3:5,10. Christians are not perfect, just forgiven. Their imperfections manifest themselves in the games they sometimes play. At a conference I heard the British […]
Will I Be Remembered?
As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more. Psalm 103:15,16. Have you ever thought that after you die, you will almost certainly be forgotten, sooner or later? That the knowledge […]
Be A Good Samaritan
A Samaritan… was moved with pity. He went to him… and took care of him. Luke 10:33,34. Thomas Carlyle told a story of an Irish tenant farmer who died a hundred years ago and left a widow and three little children. This was before the days of social security. The man who owned the farm […]
Meekness Isn’t Weakness
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5. There was once a little burro (a kind of donkey) whose job was to break in the wildest steers. The bucking, convulsing steer would be haltered to the little burro, and both would be turned loose into the desert. They would disappear over […]
Being Christ To Others
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. (Philippians 4:4-5) Acceptance of others is helped by empathy. Empathy is ‘the imaginative projection of one’s personality into that of another person’ putting yourself into the other’s shoes, listening deeply with mind, heart and […]
A Prayer For Myself And Others
I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. Holy Father protect them. John 17:611. Lord, speak to me, that I may speak in living echoes of your tone; as you have sought, so let me seek your erring children… Freely I have received, may I freely give. Help […]
Love One Another
Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind. (1 Peter 3:8-9) An English preacher named Alexander Whyte was very disturbed one night because his closest friend was at the point of death. Whyte was praying earnestly to God that this man might be […]
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