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ONE LINERS FOR YOUR SOUL" & ONE A DAY
Take these two seeds of thought
below and turn THEM into a wisdom tree.
YOUR SOUL
if someone were to ask you,
“What is my soul? Your soul?”
How would you answer? Oh, you
could give the dictionary description, “the immaterial essence of an individual
life,” but that’s about as satisfactory an answer as feeding on boiled
cardboard or fried cellophane.
So then “What is the
soul?”
Well, first and foremost,
it is the eternal you. It is not captive
to the calendar by any way or means.
It is like a great ear as
it reacts to all it hears from sources here on earth and from the heaven-sent
voice of God.
It has muscles in the
sense that if not used it shrivels and almost dies. I say almost
because it is never too late for a man or woman to begin a workout program for
this most important part of our being.
Secondly, one very special
quality of our souls, they are color blind.
For all our earthly foolish-ness, ultimately we are brothers and sisters
beneath the Fatherhood of our living God.
To argue other-wise is to
create a world of fenced-in ruts. In
God’s world where stretched souls live, there are no neighborhood restrictions
because the world, the whole world, is our neighborhood.
BELOW IS...YOUR
'ONE A DAY' for Today
KEEP IT SIMPLE BUT KEEP IT ALIVE
(These thoughts are added to each day. Scroll down and read previous One A Days.)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)
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In India, as soon as a peasant has learned one Bible Story, he is sent out to tell it. Then he comes back to learn another.
And yes not how or when the telling of the old old story but its telling.
The man who had been healed of his illness by Jesus was no theologian. He hadn’t been trained in a seminar such as one I heard about recently entitled “THE RE-CHRISTIANIZATION OF MODERN MAN IN A DEPERSONALIZED SOCIETY.”
He read no preparatory pamphlets. He simply had been healed and this was all he knew or cared about. “One thing I know, (John 9:25) I was blind but now I see.”
Indeed, what is evangelism? It is simply one beggar telling another beggar where to find food.”
A great evangelist of many years ago once wrote, “There is approximately one pastor for several hundred members in the churches of America. That one pastor cannot possibly do what God wants all those hundreds of members to be doing. The power of the laity has been called the greatest untapped force in the Christian church.”
Matthew 9:37-38
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."
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BELOW ARE SOME OF THE RAVE REVIEWS ABOUT
"THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN."
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"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 Lincolnshould 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 fullmeasure 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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