Monday, July 9, 2012

THE FORGETTERS ON PURPOSE


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In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.
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HOW IMPORTANT IS FORGETTING?

      Suppose the Navy had forgotten to show up to support the landing troops on D-Day?  Suppose you had forgotten to show up for school on a regular basis and therefore never graduated? 

      Suppose Paul had forgotten to show up for his missionary journeys?  Suppose all the disciples had forgotten to show up at the Last Supper?

      You know how it is...honest forgetting and convenient forgetting.

      Suppose Martin Luther had kept meaning to get his 95 thesis written but he was always so tired and busy and so he just kept on forgetting.

      Suppose God had forgotten to send His son to earth over 2000 years ago...

      The forgetters are bad.

      The forgetters on purpose are worse.

      The worse still are the HALF FORGETTERS.

      The half dooers...the half follow throughers...the deadly dull lineup of dreams never becoming deeds.

      The convenience of forgetting some things never goes away...

      The Disciple Peter had a dream...he would be a faithful follower of Jesus and then because of fear he conveniently forgot who he was and Jesus was and denied him.

      It's easy to lose focus...far too easy...like a number of years ago during a particular hunt the foxes lost their focus...forgot what their goal was...started out chasing a stag like they were supposed to...but then a fox crossed their path...and they forgot the stag and started chasing the fox...and then a little bit later a rabbit crossed their path and they abandoned the fox and took off after the rabbit...only to have a mouse enter the scene and become what now they chased...until finally at the end they stood barking and guarding a mouse hole.

      Have you ever done that?  Found yourself barking down the wrong hole?  Chasing the wrong goal.  Forgetting what you were supposed to be focused on.

      Dreams don't just die...sometimes they are murdered.

      Convenient forgetting does have its rewards.  The pathway of least resistance is alive and well.

      But what if this convenient forgetting could be subdued... and positive remembering be inserted in its place...

      And thereby the conversion of forgotten dreams converted into gleaming deeds. 

      How?

      Well...some suggestions...some insights from almost 84 years of living.

      Wed yourself to your dream.  Carry it with you through thick and thin, in sickness and in health, in good times and bad times, in joy and in sorrow.

      Grow like a fern.  Get so excited about following through on your promises to yourself and your God that you grow fast...like a fern does...slow is O.K. but when you can actually feel your improvement because you have doubled your prayers and your thinking positive God centered thoughts and not conveniently forgetting.

      Be best friends with Jesus. 

      Seek to live your best life now...not in some distant future.

      Accept God's forgiveness for your sins and then get on with life...don't burden yourself carrying guilt you know you don't have to carry.

      Do your best and God will do the rest.

      Chose friends who follow through on their promises.

Or as one philosopher put it "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
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      "I think the best accessory you can wear is confidence." — Adam Glassman
      When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
~ Unknown

      Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.
~ Randall G Leighton

      The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
~B. C. Forbes

      He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

      Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
~ Unknown

      Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's learning to dance in the rain.
~ unknown

      Life is a game, play it; Life is a challenge, Meet it; Life is an opportunity, Capture it.
~ Unknown

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(These are selected sermons from over 50 years of ministry)

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Just remember that “the pain of discipline will cost you pennies, whereas the pain of regret will cost you millions.”

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How can we keep our faith from being a weak and fruitless thing?  How can we not be foolish little men and women groveling in the dark shadows of overeager egos. 


          Well, first we must do more than just pray.  We must believe in our own prayers.

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Anxiety out of proportion makes us become like a centipede trying to put his best foot forward.

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        It's an old joke, I went to the doctor and I said, “Doc, when I do this, it hurts.” And the doctor said, “Then don't do that.”

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        How many things have you been anxious about that were things which you knew before you got into them were probably going to create some problems for you?  And if you asked your doctor, or your minister, or common sense and your God, all of them would have said, “Don’t do that.”

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        To buy into the community of accountability we have to realize that like bikers we are divided into two categories.  Those who have fallen and those who will fall for anything. None of us are perfect.

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          Think on it this way, some philosopher of old wrote it and it endures because there is so much truth in it… every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty

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      Some of the sermon titles posted recently


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BELOW ARE MORE QUOTES FROM NEIL'S RECENTLY POSTED SERMONS

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A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ON SUNDAY APRIL 15. ENTITILED



       Two stores faced each other across a very busy street.  Their owners were in constant competition with each other.  One day, the owner of one store put out a sign that read – If you want it, we have it!

Almost immediately the other owner put out a sign –If we don’t have it, you don’t need it!



A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ON THURSDAY APRIL 13TH. ENTITILED

WHO ARE YOU?

NO…WHOSE ARE YOU?

       Who are you?  Whose are you?

You influence and are influenced according to the answer you give.     

Are you are the flavor of the month because you are determined to be like everyone else no matter what?  If so, consider being more independent in our thinking and actions...because God wants you to grow up.

It may be easier being someone's shadow but wouldn't you really rather be a sun. 



       QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS  POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS THURSDAY  APRIL 5 FROM THOUGHT ENTITLED "Who Are You?  Whose Are You?"

       This is an old quote, and a romantic one as well but, nevertheless, can anyone say of you, “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

            QUOTE FROM THOUGHT PIECE POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS TUESDAY APRIL 3 FROM THOUGHT ENTITLED

" WHEN A NATION STRAYS TOO FAR FROM BEING MORAL IT IS WELL ON IT'S WAY TO BECOMING A MESS

        James 4:17

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

        Someone once said: “A belief is what you hold, a conviction is what holds you!”

        So what holds you, constructs you, leads you with a push when needed?

       Quotes POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITING THURSDAY MARCH 29th THOUGHTS ENTITLED WHO ARE YOU?

NO…WHOSE ARE YOU?

        In a Peanuts cartoon strip Peppermint Patty is shown talking to Charlie Brown.

“Guess what, Chuck? It’s the first day of school and I got sent to the principal’s office.

And it’s your fault!”

Charlie Brown responds, “My fault? How could it be my fault? Why do you say everything is my fault?”

To which she declares, “You’re my friend, aren’t you, Chuck? You should have been a better influence on me.”

In the comics, it’s funny… but in real life it’s much more complicated.

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          Yes, God loves you the way you are but he loves you too much to let you stay that way.

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       QUOTES ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL INSPIRING INFORMATIVE book

       STILL RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS 8 YEARS AFTER IT'S PUBLICATION.

       "Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding 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

       "Wyrick has authored a wonderful examination of the spirituality of one of American history's most devoutly religious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of information."

              Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian minister

        "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

        "V. Neil Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham Lincoln's Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history. Should have a wide readership."

       James H. Smylie Professor of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia

       "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 f Cunard

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