(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)
Serialization of Neil’s Internationally Distributed Novel (Rust On My Soul) (Published by Bridge Press (1985) starts on his blog Wyrick’s Writings Tuesday April 13th and continues each Tuesday until finished. Thursday and Sunday will continue to cover a variety of subjects.
To view the blog that has this serialization CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
Serialization of Neil’s Internationally Distributed Novel (Rust On My Soul) (Published by Bridge Press (1985) starts on his blog Wyrick’s Writings Tuesday April 13th and continues each Tuesday until finished. Thursday and Sunday will continue to cover a variety of subjects.
To view the blog that has this serialization CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
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It is a simple statement that really is the story of many lives, “He believed in God as gentlemen believe.”
It is a timeless attitude. Read Elijah if you have any doubts, “How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal be God, then follow him.”
The people of this time of Elijah answered him not a word.
They couldn’t.
They didn’t have anything they could say.
They knew they had a conventional religion.
They knew their responsive readings backward and forwards.
They could chant their chants hum their hymns and pray their prayers, but deep down inside they knew all they had was religion…
And what they didn’t have was God.
What is religion anyway?
The Bible doesn’t talk about religion. In fact it hardly uses the word.
The Bible talks about God.
God’s will, God’s way, God’s law, God’s love, God’s Forgiveness.
Religion is simply a term to describe something to which we give ourselves.
If Elijah were to speak today perhaps he might say, “If the Lord be God, follow him; but if every other man’s way of doing be God, if convention be God, if tradition be God, then study all the ways of man, learn how your neighbor acts and what he says, and what is accepted and acceptable, and give yourself for the rest of your life to being like every other man.
You’ll be a jolly good fellow and loved by all.”
It is easier to play at religion than to know God…
Knowing God requires dedication…knowing how to find one’s way to church requires only a reasonably sense of direction.
Balzac said the opening words you read, “He believed in God as gentlemen believe.”
A belief of dignified restraint.
A belief that everything has its place, even God.
“So trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him, lean on Him, hope confidently in Him) forever; for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].”
It is a timeless attitude. Read Elijah if you have any doubts, “How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal be God, then follow him.”
The people of this time of Elijah answered him not a word.
They couldn’t.
They didn’t have anything they could say.
They knew they had a conventional religion.
They knew their responsive readings backward and forwards.
They could chant their chants hum their hymns and pray their prayers, but deep down inside they knew all they had was religion…
And what they didn’t have was God.
What is religion anyway?
The Bible doesn’t talk about religion. In fact it hardly uses the word.
The Bible talks about God.
God’s will, God’s way, God’s law, God’s love, God’s Forgiveness.
Religion is simply a term to describe something to which we give ourselves.
If Elijah were to speak today perhaps he might say, “If the Lord be God, follow him; but if every other man’s way of doing be God, if convention be God, if tradition be God, then study all the ways of man, learn how your neighbor acts and what he says, and what is accepted and acceptable, and give yourself for the rest of your life to being like every other man.
You’ll be a jolly good fellow and loved by all.”
It is easier to play at religion than to know God…
Knowing God requires dedication…knowing how to find one’s way to church requires only a reasonably sense of direction.
Balzac said the opening words you read, “He believed in God as gentlemen believe.”
A belief of dignified restraint.
A belief that everything has its place, even God.
“So trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him, lean on Him, hope confidently in Him) forever; for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].”
Isaiah 26: 4
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Below are recent Titles on Neil’s other blog Wyrick’sWritings blog
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Below are recent Titles on Neil’s other blog Wyrick’sWritings blog
To read them go to Google and where it says “Google Search” type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
May 27 2010 …DO YOU HAVE A PHD IN COMPLAINING?
May 23 2010…WHAT IS A FOOL?
May 9 2010 …WHAT IS MEEKNESS?
May 6 2010 …HOW HEAVY WAS THE LAST GRUDGE YOU HELD?
April 15 2010 …DO YOU BELIEVE IN DEVILS?
Have you considered sharing this site with family or friends? ANOTHER WAY OF DOING THIS…
Just have them go to Google Search and type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
NEIL’S 9TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN” IS AVAILABLE ON Amazon.com’s KINDLE READER.
May 27 2010 …DO YOU HAVE A PHD IN COMPLAINING?
May 23 2010…WHAT IS A FOOL?
May 9 2010 …WHAT IS MEEKNESS?
May 6 2010 …HOW HEAVY WAS THE LAST GRUDGE YOU HELD?
April 15 2010 …DO YOU BELIEVE IN DEVILS?
Have you considered sharing this site with family or friends? ANOTHER WAY OF DOING THIS…
Just have them go to Google Search and type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
NEIL’S 9TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN” IS AVAILABLE ON Amazon.com’s KINDLE READER.
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