KEEP IT SIMPLE BUT KEEP IT ALIVE

" ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY

              Take these two seeds of thought below and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.

      one liners FOR THE SOUL

YOUR SOUL
FOR WED

if someone were to ask you, “What is my soul?  Your soul?”  How would you answer?  Oh, you could give the dictionary description, “the immaterial essence of an individual life,” but that’s about as satisfactory an answer as feeding on boiled cardboard or fried cellophane.

So then “What is the soul?”

Well, first and foremost, it is the eternal you.  It is not captive to the calendar by any way or means.

It is like a great ear as it reacts to all it hears from sources here on earth and from the heaven-sent voice of God.

It has muscles in the sense that if not used it shrivels and almost dies.  I say almost because it is never too late for a man or woman to begin a workout program for this most important part of our being.

Secondly, one very special quality of our souls, they are color blind.  For all our earthly foolish-ness, ultimately we are brothers and sisters beneath the Fatherhood of our living God. 

To argue other-wise is to create a world of fenced-in ruts.  In God’s world where stretched souls live, there are no neighborhood restrictions because the world, the whole world, is our neighborhood.

                BELOW IS...YOUR 'ONE A DAY' for Today

 KEEP IT SIMPLE BUT KEEP IT ALIVE

(These thoughts are added to each day. Scroll down and read previous One A Days.)

(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.

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In India, as soon as a peasant has learned one Bible Story, he is sent out to tell it. Then he comes back to learn another.

And yes not how or when the telling of the old old story but its telling.

The man who had been healed of his illness by Jesus was no theologian. He hadn’t been trained in a seminar such as one I heard about recently entitled “THE RE-CHRISTIANIZATION OF MODERN MAN IN A DEPERSONALIZED SOCIETY.”

He read no preparatory pamphlets. He simply had been healed and this was all he knew or cared about. “One thing I know, (John 9:25) I was blind but now I see.”

Indeed, what is evangelism? It is simply one beggar telling another beggar where to find food.”

A great evangelist of many years ago once wrote, “There is approximately one pastor for several hundred members in the churches of America. That one pastor cannot possibly do what God wants all those hundreds of members to be doing. The power of the laity has been called the greatest untapped force in the Christian church.”

Matthew 9:37-38
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."

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       BELOW ARE SOME OF THE RAVE REVIEWS ABOUT "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN."

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      "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 Lincolnshould 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 fullmeasure 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