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SPIRITUAL ARAHAM LINCOLN...AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM AND ON KINDLE
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Read a book on
logic? Watch a tape on emotions? Pray a prayer...attend private and church worship services on a
regular basis. Do everything and
anything you can to lessen your foolish decisions and maximize your wiser
choices.
Of such is a
better life made.
Having
written that...I post the following fact as well... Even before the days of the
Internet, one “Think Take” put forth this statement concerning knowledge:
Knowledge is exploding at such a
rate--more than 2000 pages a minute--that even Einstein couldn’t keep up. In
fact, if you read 24 hours a day, from age 21 to 70, and retained all you read,
you would be one and a half million years behind when you finished.
So earn your degrees (Yes, I have three
but basically, at least for me, they have simply emphasized how much I don't
know) and take your courses but in the process never forget we will never be
anywhere near as smart as we think we are...and we are never smarter than when we
are down upon our knees.
Or as Proverbs
9:10 says, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the
knowledge of the holy is understanding."
I do not denigrate knowledge. My life is better for all the talents I have
honed, the subjects I have taken and all the modern day technology that makes
life easier.
But I must
constantly remind myself that “Knowledge
comes from what we have studied. Wisdom comes from using what we know with the
wrong results.”
There seems an
increase in our day of those who believe they are smarter than God...which is
why they have reached the point where they do not believe in God...which is
called being too smart for your own good.
Allow me to set in
motion yet another thought.
Former president Ronald Reagan once had
an aunt who took him to a cobbler for a pair of new shoes.
The cobbler asked young Reagan, "Do you
want square toes or round toes?"
Unable to decide, Reagan didn't answer,
so the cobbler gave him a few days.
Several days later the cobbler saw Reagan
on the street and asked him again what kind of toes he wanted on his shoes.
Reagan still couldn't decide, so the
shoemaker replied, "Well, come by in a couple of days. Your shoes will be
ready." When the future president did so, he found one square-toed and one
round-toed shoe!
"This
will teach you to never let people make decisions for you," the cobbler
said to his indecisive customer.
True...but to make wiser decisions in the
future it does require you make a habit of reviewing decision you have made in
the past. (And throw away that bag of
excuses we all carry around)
"For yes it may
be true that there are two sides to every question, but it is also true that
there are two sides to a sheet of flypaper, and it makes a big difference to
the fly which side he chooses"
There are certain times
when no decision should be made. In the
middle of the night when you have awakened worrying about a decision...when you
are in a bad mood...when you are weary.
Rest up for decision making time? Not a bad idea at all.
Years ago a professor at Stanford devised
a check list of nine questions that can be applied to any problem. Used as a
self- quiz, the questions are an imagination booster. They are:
1. Is there a new way to do it?
2. Can you borrow or adapt?
3. Can you give it a new twist?
4. Do you merely need more of the same?
5. Less of the same?
6. Is there a substitute?
7. Can the parts be rearranged?
8. What if we do just the opposite?
9. Can ideas be combined?
2. Can you borrow or adapt?
3. Can you give it a new twist?
4. Do you merely need more of the same?
5. Less of the same?
6. Is there a substitute?
7. Can the parts be rearranged?
8. What if we do just the opposite?
9. Can ideas be combined?
A closing thought ...you will make bad
decisions sometimes...we all do...so he best thing to do is to remember again
and again...patiently think a problem through and pray it through and then
act...BECAUSE OFTEN NO DECISION IS A DECISION.
QUOTES
ON WISDOM & DECISIOMS
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when
you would have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson.
A wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Nobody lives
long enough to make them all himself.
Source Unknown.
You don't have to be listed in Who's Who to know what's
what.
Source Unknown.
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross
and which to burn.
David Russell.
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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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HIS WORLD FAMOUS ONE MAN DRAMATIZATIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN, CHARLES WESLEY AND MARTIN LUTHER
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SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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