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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
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You
hope for things you can hold in your hand...and what you can hold in your
heart...and hold in your soul things that can be good and worthy of the holding....some
more, some less and some you pray to not hold or want to hold at all.
A new golf club, a new book, the new kind of sandwich
from the sub shop, the steering wheel to a new car, the handshake of a new
friend...
You hold in your head.
Knowledge that
lets you think better and do your job at work better and how to succeed at the
business of living better...
You hold in your heart your loves and hopefully no
hates. You hold their an appreciation of
beauty of all kinds.
You hold in your soul the awe you have for the fact of
God.
Hopefully...You
have by now, in the wisdom gained by your added
days of living, increasing maturity to pray for your tomorrows and
follow up your prayers with action.
... for you do not want to spend 24 hours a day with a
fool.
What is hope? It is faith in perpetual motion?
It
is the great antidote for despair.
The way to find the strength of hope is to seek with
consistent persistence your eternal God.
Show how much you believe and seek this Lord of life and
I will know how great is your hope and how wide are your dreams.
Would you kill hope and by so doing guarantee the two of you will
never meet?
Then spend the whole of your life repeating the words,
"It can't be done." "It
can't happen." "It can't..."
Do you spend the most of your time fearing how one way or
the other you will be hurt, seeing just over each day's horizon nothing but
potential disaster, overwhelmed with the fact of darkness...never seeking the
light of a positive thought...
...then you know hopelessness and know it well.
Do you talk
about God's love and think often about God's love and how you are never alone
for God is always there with extra power and peace when you need it?
There are
conversations that are essential...this is the ultimate one....and if you can
... you can probably give me a good definition of hope.
There is a word
I love among a few others. It is the
word "encouragement" and I embrace it
and remind myself to seek ways to find more of its substance in my daily life.
Such as..."You may be older than dirt but be
encouraged. Just buy a new shovel and
build a hill from which you can see more of the good things in life."
Would you be filled more often with a spirit of
encouragement? Then do not discourage
others.
Don't be the kind of person who when they see you coming
put up their umbrella...you know...the kind of person who is always raining on
other people's parade.
United States runner Marla Runyon has been legally
blind for 22 years. Even so, she competed in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in
Sydney, Australia.
In fact she qualified for the finals in
the 1500 meter race. (Marla finished eighth, three seconds behind the medal
winners.)
How does she do it? Marla can’t see in color, and what she does see is just a fuzzy blob.
How does she do it? Marla can’t see in color, and what she does see is just a fuzzy blob.
In a race she just follows the blob of
figures in front of her. She told TV commentator Tom Hammonds that the real
difficulty was in rounding the final turn and "racing toward a finish line
that I can’t see. I just know where it is."
The future is fuzzy. That is what the future is all about...which
is why we need to pray courageous prayers that carry us toward each new
challenging finish line of each new challenger.
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QUOTES ON HOPE
Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it
becomes faith. ~Robert Brault
Hope is faith holding out its hand in
the dark. ~George Iles
God sends the dawn
that we might see
the might-have-beens
that still might be. ~Robert Brault
that we might see
the might-have-beens
that still might be. ~Robert Brault
He that lives upon hope will die
fasting. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
When
you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the
face of God. ~Charles L. Allen
Some see a hopeless end, while others
see an endless hope. ~Author Unknown
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
~Tertullian
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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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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
- LEISURE, A BLESSING OR A CURSE ( Continuation)
- SPIRITUALLY MOULDED OR MOULDY (Continuation of Ser...
- CHRISTIANITY BY REFLEX
- LEISURE, A BLESSING OR A CURSE?
- SPIRITUALLY MOULDED OR MOULDY
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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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REVIEWS 8 YEARS AFTER IT'S PUBLICATION.
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