AND GOD IS...AND YOU ARE

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              Click on http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com to read selected Sermons from over 50 years of Rev. Wyrick's ministry. (STARTING NOV 1 "HOW MUCH DOES A PRAYER WEIGH)  Below...other recent Sermon Titles

• SPIRITUALLY MOULDED OR MOULDY
• SO WHO NEEDS THANKSGIVING
• ARROGANCE AND HUMILITY (Continued)
• HOW TO LESSEN ANXIETY

       To view Rev. Wyrick in 4 of his highly acclaimed One Man Dramas  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN CHARLES WESLEY, MARTIN LUTHER (NBC Special) click on the link below

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        Below the thoughts below read a quote from Rev. Wyrick's applauded 9th book THE SPIRITUAL ARAHAM LINCOLN...AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM AND ON KINDLE

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       How could God teach kindness without suffering to be relieved?

       How could He teach men courage without something to overcome?

       How could He teach true love unless men were tempted to hate?

       How could He teach man endurance if there were no burdens to bear?

       A Chinese proverb reads, "A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trial."

       The Apostle puts it this way, "Trouble produces endurance, endurance produces character and character produces hope."

       Once, two men in Charles Read's book "The Cloister and the Hearth" were walking through a troubled Europe.  One man turned to the other and said," Courage my friend, the devil is dead."

       I do not presume to rewrite his book but I cannot help but rewrite these lines to read, "Courage my friend, God is alive."

       That's the gospel, my friend. It does not deny problems.  It assumes faith.

       It comes to you in your darkest time of doubt and says, "Come unto Me that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you peace."

       Yes, I know men kill but I also know men heal. I know there are storms but I also know there are sunrises and sunsets.

       I know there is pain but there is also the pleasure of being comforted.

       I know that He put within man greed and graciousness, sin and sainthood, all kind of evil and all kind of good...and then he made us free.

       In the book "Peace of Mind" the author has God speaking these words (rewritten and paraphrased) "Man, man, I gave you strong and dynamic dam enclosed  then  set free waters to make your turbines hum with power.

       I gave you rich loam upon which you could grow waving wheat. 

       What have you done?

       My coal often you have stolen, leaving only the slag for the poor.  My diamonds, my gold, my silver you have imprisoned behind the walls of your selfish greed.

       Because  you refused too use my gifts in order to build a just earth, you have been forced to spend gold for countless wars... that mankind might be blown up in the twinkling of an eye.

       You have seen your cities ruined and your precious sons annihilated on a thousand battlefields..

       Now at last, the intelligence I have implanted in you, O race of man, has fashioned the key to unlock my treasure house of energy.

       Within this secret heart of my atoms is the power of life and death for all of you.

       O man, will you finally chose only tools of life or will you continue to challenge and threaten each other with weapons of death."

       QUOTES ON LIFE'S CHOICES

       In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

       There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley

       Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Martin H. Fischer

       What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

       We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

       To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire  

       Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens

       When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller      

       Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

       Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa  

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Below is a quote from Rev. Wyrick's 9th book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

      It is little wonder that once the war was over, wretched memories fed anger loud and long.  Neither side could be proud of some things that happened during the war or at their many prison camps.  The meanness in some men had multiplied.  They felt their uniforms allowed it.

Andersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was officially known, in southwest Georgia is remembered as one of the worst. 

By the end of the war, it had held 50,000 prisoners on a piece of land no larger than twenty-six acres. 

Some men had called pits in the ground their home.  During its short fourteen-month existence, 13,000 soldiers who had survived in battle died in captivity under the most terrible conditions. 

When the war was over the superintendent was hanged.

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      WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK

       "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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Recent articles Rev. Wyrick has written for this web site are:  REFLECTIONS

·         Many Kinds of Slavery - But Are They Not All Very Much The Same? (July 2012)

·         Here Comes Summer (July 2012)

·         Spring (May 2012)

·         Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)

·         Wayward and Windy (April 2012)

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      Some of the sermon titles posted recently on Wyrick's Writings

• LEISURE, A BLESSING OR A CURSE ( Continuation)
• SPIRITUALLY MOULDED OR MOULDY (Continuation of Ser...
• CHRISTIANITY BY REFLEX
• LEISURE, A BLESSING OR A CURSE?
• SPIRITUALLY MOULDED OR MOULDY

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BELOW ARE MORE QUOTES FROM NEIL'S RECENTLY POSTED SERMONS on Wyrick's Writings

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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!

 

      

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       To Order and Read Neil's 9th book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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       QUOTES ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL INSPIRING INFORMATIVE book

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

      

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