Friday, January 18, 2013

THE SOUND OF SILENCE


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Each day of your life you make two important decisions.
       When to speak up and when to shut up.
       By way of example.
       The great evangelist Dwight L. Moody had delivered a stirring message at an evangelistic meeting. When he had finished a young college graduate came up to him and said, "Sir, I detected 13 grammatical errors in your sermon."
       To which Dwight L. Moody replied, "Thank you young man, for such careful attention, but may I reply by saying that I am using all the grammar I've got to the glory of God.  What about you?"
       There are no idle comments without consequences.  A father tells a son he is no good or stupid or...and that son carries the scar into his seventies.
       A mother tells her son he can do anything and the confidence this begins continues for a lifetime.   
       If you call another human being by an ethnic slur does it make any difference?
       If you pollute the air with degrading comments how does it affect the world in which we all live?
       If you populate the community where you make your existence with half truths and outright lies does it add to an ambience of trust?
       Do you gossip and complain and constantly add to discord?
       What difference does it make?
       "...every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment."  Matthew 12:36
       One woman in a community who had a particularly worthless tongue and used it for all it was not worth, was once asked by someone "Do you get paid for all the damage you do with your tongue?
       There was a rather natural period of flabbergasted silence and then the woman sputtered a reply, "Why-y-y of course not."
       "Well, then" was the retort,   "you certainly work cheap."
       This is a wonderful world but it can be wrecked with a little mind and a big mouth.
       Newspapermen with pad and pen often hear a person being interviewed say, "This is off the record."  But what we say within earshot of anyone else is never "off-the-record."
       Think of all the tongues that were responsible for Christ hanging on a cross.
       The politically correct and cowardly tongue of Pilate.  The deceitful tongue of Caiphas.  The traitorous tongue of Judas.
       A number of years ago a study was made on thousands of cases to see who was filled with more tension.  It is not surprising that people who were constantly critical of other people suffered the greatest degree of depression and tension.
       Would you like to have a book printed that contained all the things you have said about people in the last year?  One man had a prayer he prayed often, "Lord, fill my mouth with proper stuff, and nudge me I've said enough."
       QUOTES ON WATCHING WHAT YOU SAY
       "Be careful of the words you say,
Keep them short and sweet.
You never know, from day to day,
Which ones you'll have to eat."
- Anonymous
       "Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."
- Edward Thorndike
       "The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks."
- Luke 6:45
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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


·         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


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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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       QUOTES ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL INSPIRING INFORMATIVE book

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

      

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