IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND
THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND COPY and paste THE FOLLOWING URL
There are over 900
stories and commentaries on this blog. It is added to
daily.
Click on http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com
to read selected Sermons from
over 50 years of Rev.
Wyrick's ministry.++++++++++
In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.
~ shing xiong
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."
++++++++++++++
"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
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
~ 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
~B. C. Forbes
He who has a why to live can bear almost
any how.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a
mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
~ Unknown
~ Unknown
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to
pass...it's learning to dance in the rain.
~ unknown
~ unknown
Life is a game, play it; Life is a
challenge, Meet it; Life is an opportunity, Capture it.
~ Unknown
~ Unknown
++++++++++++++++
QUOTES BELOW ARE
FROM WYRICK'S WRITINGS...CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING TO TAKE YOU THERE... http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com
(These
are selected sermons from over 50 years of ministry)
+++++++++++++++++++
Just
remember that “the pain of discipline will cost you pennies, whereas the pain
of regret will cost you millions.”
++++++++++++++++++
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.
+++++++++++++++++++
Anxiety
out of proportion makes us become like a centipede trying to put his best foot
forward.
++++++++++++++++++
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.”
++++++++++++++++++
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.”
++++++++++++++++++++
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.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
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
++++++++++++++++++++++
Some
of the sermon titles posted recently
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Before you decide
to purchase or not purchase his book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN.... view his Award Winning One Man
Dramatization of Lincoln (since he wrote the script
for this drama it will give you an insight into what you will find in the book
itself)
Available on
Amazon.com in printed form and on Amazon Kindle Books. and at
many other sites
TO VIEW THE LINCOLN
One Man DRAMA and 3 other dramas; Ben Franklin, Martin Luther & Charles
Wesley
click on the
following URL
http://www.speakerneil.com/
++++++++++++++++++++++
BELOW
ARE MORE QUOTES FROM NEIL'S RECENTLY POSTED SERMONS
++++++++++++++++++
A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY
OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED
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 ENTITLED
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 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 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 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.
Would you like to read the entire thought
piece? Then... TO TAKE YOU TO THE WYRICK'S WRITING'S
SITE
click on
the following
Yes, God loves you the way you
are but he loves you too much to let you stay that way.
+++++++++++++++++++++++
Click on the URL below to WATCH NEIL IN
HIS WORLD FAMOUS ONE MAN DRAMATIZATIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN,
CHARLES WESLEY AND MARTIN LUTHER
To
Order and Read
Neil's 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
GO TO amazon.com
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
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment