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acclaimed One Man Dramas ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN CHARLES WESLEY, MARTIN LUTHER (NBC Special) click on the link
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Below
the thoughts below read a quote from Rev. Wyrick's applauded 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ARAHAM LINCOLN...AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM AND ON KINDLE
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Each day of your life you make two important decisions.
When to speak up and when
to shut up.
By way of example.
The
great evangelist Dwight L. Moody had delivered a stirring message at an
evangelistic meeting. When he had finished a young college graduate came up to
him and said, "Sir, I detected 13 grammatical errors in your sermon."
To
which Dwight L. Moody replied, "Thank you young man, for such careful
attention, but may I reply by saying that I am using all the grammar I've got
to the glory of God. What about you?"
There are no idle comments without consequences. A father tells a son he is no good or stupid or...and that son carries the scar into his seventies.
A mother tells her son he can do anything and the confidence
this begins continues for a lifetime.
If
you call another human being by an ethnic slur does it make any difference?
If you pollute the air with degrading comments how does
it affect the world in which we all live?
If
you populate the community where you make your existence with half truths and
outright lies does it add to an ambience of trust?
Do you gossip and complain and constantly add to discord?
What difference
does it make?
"...every idle word
that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." Matthew 12:36
One
woman in a community who had a particularly worthless tongue and used it for
all it was not worth, was once asked by someone "Do you get paid for all
the damage you do with your tongue?
There
was a rather natural period of flabbergasted silence and then the woman
sputtered a reply, "Why-y-y of course not."
"Well,
then" was the retort, "you
certainly work cheap."
This is a
wonderful world but it can be wrecked with a little mind and a big mouth.
Newspapermen with pad and pen often hear a person being
interviewed say, "This is off the record." But what we say within earshot of anyone else
is never "off-the-record."
Think of all
the tongues that were responsible for Christ hanging on a cross.
The politically correct and
cowardly tongue of Pilate. The deceitful
tongue of Caiphas. The traitorous tongue
of Judas.
A number of years ago a study was made on thousands of
cases to see who was filled with more tension. It is not surprising
that people who were constantly critical of other people suffered the greatest
degree of depression and tension.
Would
you like to have a book printed that contained all the things you have said
about people in the last year? One man had a
prayer he prayed often, "Lord, fill my mouth with proper stuff, and nudge
me I've said enough."
QUOTES
ON WATCHING WHAT YOU SAY
"Be careful of the words you say,
Keep them short and sweet.
You never know, from day to day,
Which ones you'll have to eat."
- Anonymous
Keep them short and sweet.
You never know, from day to day,
Which ones you'll have to eat."
- Anonymous
"Colors fade, temples crumble,
empires fall, but wise words endure."
- Edward Thorndike
- Edward Thorndike
"The good man brings good things out
of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of
the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth
speaks."
- Luke 6:45
- Luke 6:45
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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
To
Order and Read
Neil's 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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QUOTES ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL INSPIRING INFORMATIVE book
STILL RECEIVING RAVE
REVIEWS 8 YEARS AFTER IT'S PUBLICATION.
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