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I share with you part of a prayer that Paul Harvey recited over the airwaves. It was given at the opening of the Kansas State Senate.
“Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know your Word says, “Woe to those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done and are doing.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it Pluralism.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem…We have polluted the air with profanity…and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us…and set us free. Amen.”
How many people, when they get to heaven are going to say, “Well, GD, here I am. What do you know?”
How many people, when they get to heaven are going to say, “Well, GD, here I am. What do you know?”
Oh, no. I think God and Jesus Christ will, at that time, be said with great reverence and concern, kneeling with the angels before the throne of grace.
I think at that moment all the good old boys and all the good old girls who didn’t mean anything by their taking of the Lord’s name in vain will realize that now is the time to mean something by what they say and how they say it.
Why did we win the Revolutionary War? For many reasons, but as David McCullough in his priceless book on that period says, “We won because there were a few good men who because of their character changed the destiny of a nation.” (paraphrased) It has always been this way – men and women of character who will not, cannot, be denied.
Profaning God stinks. It turns the soul into a skunk and pollutes the air. Indeed, let me do something this morning I have never done before. Close by reading the same scriptures I read at the beginning of this sermon because they so emphasize what is right and proper and what God expects of us.
“You must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language…” (Colossians 3:8)
“…The words that the mouth utters come from the overflowing of the heart.” (Luke 6:45)
“Turn away from godless chatter.” (Timothy 6:20)
“Holy and reverend is His name.” (Psalm 111:9)
“May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, Oh Lord” (Psalm 19:14 )
“O Lord, our Lord, how glorious is your name over all the earth.” (Psalm 8:1)
“Blessed be the name of the Lord both now and forever.” (Psalm 112:2)
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"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our unjderstanding and appreciation of Lincoln while revealing the Divine source of his strength."
Lt. Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.) "The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is an extremely well written book that investigates what might be termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'
William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn "When it comes to invoking religion in support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantle of humility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics."
Dr. Donald W. Shriver Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics
"Neil Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln should be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United States. Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often expressed in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a Deity, but rather expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this faith that provided the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in full measure as he led the United States through the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's clear and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in keeping with the character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his point very well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863."
Daniel Allen Butler, author of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The Lusitania and The Age o fCunard
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