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In the spring of 1894, the Baltimore Orioles baseball team was
playing in Boston. Halfway through the
game, an Orioles player, John McGraw, got into a first class fight with
Boston’s third baseman. Soon, all the
players on both teams exploded onto the field and fists began to fly. Soon the fight spread to the stands. Then someone set the stands on fire. The fire spread – when it was over 107
buildings in Boston lay in ashes.
Ecclesiastes 7:9 explains what really happened, “Do not be
quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.”
To find anger is to lose reason.
It paves the way for many regrets and continuous acts of
foolishness. One can seldom be proud of
what they say or do when angry. The book of
Proverbs puts it this way: “He that hath
no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without
walls.”
“Daddy,” the little boy asked, “How does war start?” “Well,” answered his daddy, “In World War I
the Germans marched into Belgium and…” His wife interrupted, “You’re
wrong. The Archduke was
assassinated. You’ve got the wrong
war.”
“Who did our son ask? Just
shut up and stay out of this.” Now his
wife was beginning to steam, “If you weren’t so dumb I wouldn’t have had to say
anything.” As their anger escalated the
little boy broke in, “You don’t have to say any more. I have the answer.”
Will Rodgers once commented, “Anyone who flies off in a rage is
going to have a very rocky landing.
Someone once said of Jesus, “He had to be divine. No mortal man could have been that
patient.” Indeed, Jesus could not have
loved so much if He had not been patient so often.
Perhaps
an oyster is one of the finest examples of patience in action. It takes an irritation and makes it a pearl.
Anyone
can get mad, we all have. Paul knowing
the problem first hand wrote, “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath”. Jesus facing the fact that people get mad at
each other said, “If thou bring thy gift to the altar and there is a grievance
between thee and a neighbor, first reconcile and then bring thy gift”. In other words, you are going to get
angry. We all do. It happens.
Just remember that when you come to church to worship this is the place
to leave your anger when you walk back out the door.” JAN 2010 BLOG
In the 1930’s, Roland Hayes, a gifted black singer, stood before a
hostile Nazi audience in Berlin’s Beethoven Hall. As he tried to sing, they called him every
dirty name that his race had ever endured.
In telling of the incident, he says, “Resentment
began to swell up inside me. I began to
feel toward them what they felt toward me, and then for some strange reason, I
remembered a sermon I heard as a little boy.
The old minister standing there in the pulpit in my home church, talking
about Jesus before Pilate. About the
angry crowd and the insults…and how he said,
“They pushed Jesus, they
pushed Him real hard, but He never said a word, never a mumblin’ word.” And, remembering His love, His forgiveness, I
looked out at the crowd booing, hissing, insulting and I prayed silently,
intently. For ten minutes they never let
up.
For ten minutes, I prayed not
to become like them. Then, slowly, they
quit and when it was quiet, I began to softly sing a song by Schubert.”
QUOTES ON ANGER
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live
rent-free in your head (Quote by - Ann Landers)
Resentment is like
drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. (Quote by - Carrie
Fisher)
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Here Comes Summer (July 2012)
·
Spring
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Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)
·
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THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Available on Kindle. Amazon.com, and many other sites
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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need it!
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