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Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
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over 50 years of Rev. Wyrick's ministry. Below...other recent Sermon Titles
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
Below
the thoughts below read a quote from Rev. Wyrick's applauded 9th book THE SPIRITUAL
ARAHAM LINCOLN
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She
thought the professor was joking. He
wasn't...and as she thought about it she realized why. Then she wrote...
"During
my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed
through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name
of the woman who cleans the school?"
Surely this was a
joke.
I had seen
the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my
paper, leaving the last question blank.
Before the class ended, one student asked
if the last question would count toward our grade.
"Absolutely," the professor said. "In your
careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your
attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never
forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. (~Joann C. Jones)
Sometimes it is easier to do "Don'ts" than to
not do "Do's"
Proactive
Christianity does "do's" It
requires effort rather than just quoting scripture. It visits the sick in hospital, feeds the
homeless from a bread line rather than just talk about good deeds in a church
meeting. It looks for places to serve
rather than excuses for a lifetime of nothingness.
"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we
have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them
who are of the household of faith." (Galatians 6:9-10)
Let's get one thing straight....our great
purpose and privilege in life is to serve and do the will of our heavenly Father...but in the process...
not forget that we are also called to help people... on behalf of this Almighty
God.
Indeed...think of it this way..do you
want to be a Good Samaritans or an uncaring Barbarian?
An old man was standing on a crowded bus.
A young man standing next to him asked, “What time is it?”
The old man said nothing. As the young
man walked away, the old man’s friend asked, “Why were you so rude to the young
man?”
The old man answered, “If I had given him
the time of day, he’d want to know where I am going.
Then we might talk about our interests.
If we did that he might invite himself to my house for dinner.
If he came to my house, he would meet my
lovely daughter.
If he met her, they would both fall in
love and frankly,
I don’t want my daughter marrying someone
who can’t afford a watch.
A foolish story?
People use all kind of foolish reasons
not to help people. They do it all the
time.
It's calling caring about someone else as
much as self. "Love thy neighbor as
thyself" is the way it reads.
When you see an accident on the highway does your neck turn to
rubber? But you have no intention of stopping to
help. After all the minutes following
the moment of curiosity are filled with a host of very important things to do.
And what could you do anyway.
Hold a hand? Speak a reassuring word.
But don't feel bad...people drive by
accident victims all the time.
How often do you give birth to kindness? How often is your life an incubator for small
babies of compassion that if fed will grow into adult concern.
M.T.E. That's what
helping other people always cost and many are not even willing to look at the
cost let alone pay it. What is
M.T.E.
Money...Time...Energy.
If on the other hand you have made a
habit of helping people for decades and now the years are stealing some of that
energy...what to do?
SLOW DOWN...JUST DON'T COME TO A SCREEING
HALT.
Perhaps you should seek out a different
service. You've been teaching Sunday
School for years and your patience with the youngsters is wearing thin. Volunteer somewhere else in the church.
You've been actively engaged in a charity
or good deeds to neighbors. Keep doing
good...just wrap your good deeds in
different challenges.
Remember that variety is the spice of life ...and that is true
of good deeds as well.
John Wesley said it so very well when he
wrote...
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
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QUOTES ABOUT DOING GOOD
Service to others is the rent you pay for
your room here on earth.
Mohammad Ali
Mohammad Ali
Be kind whenever possible. It is always
possible. ~Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
Never look down on anybody unless you're
helping him up. ~Jesse Jackson
It's nice to be important, but it's more
important to be nice. ~Author Unknown
Today, give a stranger one of your
smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I
Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Treat everyone with politeness, even
those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.
~Author Unknown
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Don't wait for people to be friendly,
show them how. ~Author Unknown
The most important trip you may take in
life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye
How far you go in life depends on your
being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the
striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you
will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you
never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one
has ever harmed his stomach. ~Winston Churchill
Three things in human life are important.
The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
~Henry James
The kindest word in all the world is the
unkind word, unsaid. ~Author Unknown
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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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Neil also writes for go60.us to check out his writings...
click on
"Voice" on the home page and then on the list of authors click
on Neil Wyrick
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 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!
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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
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Neil's 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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