10 COMMANDMENTS FOR CHOIRS

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1. Thou shalt not make a joyful noise unto the Lord with a sour puss. 

2. Thou shalt open thy mouth to sing but not to complain or bear false notes or witness. 

3. Thou shalt not try to steal the show for it is God thou art honoring and not thyself. 


4. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors voice, but neither shalt thou become overly impressed with thine own. 


5. Thou shalt honor choir practice night and keep it free, for he or she who does not practice becomes a monument to imperfection. 

6. Thou shalt remember where thou art during Sunday worship and keep it holy.
A giggling chattering choir is an abomination to the Lord, a worry to the preacher, and an irritation to the pew. 

7. Thou shalt not put off joining the choir for procrastination doesn’t know or care about harmony. Thou shalt not put off quittin the choir when thou hast lost thy voice for then it is a gift in reverse. 

8. Thou shalt not mumble thy words, but rather remember there is great charity in clarity. 

9. Thou shalt not kill thy choir by competing with the choir director for his or her job. 

10. Thou shalt not quit thy choir when thy feelings are hurt, but rather raise up these feelings fo the ministration of the Lord. 


(This was first published in the Presbyterian Outlook in 1964. It has been published in many different magazines since and sent around from church to church. Please feel free to use it in any way you wish, placed in the choir room, etc. Most choir members are dedicated pleasing individuals who labor with diligence to give of their best to their Lord…but then we are all human and need to be reminded from time to time how it is we should conduct ourselves.)
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Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled ANXIETY, FIGHT IT OR FEED IT (First in new series

“Remember Erma Bombeck? She wrote a piece one day about a little boy named Donald. I have a feeling he was a composite rather than a real person. Nevertheless, getting inside Donald’s head is a good way to emphasize how foolishly we all can capture more uptight bugs than we know what to do with. 

Just before his first day of school six-year old Donald proved he had worrying down pat. His thoughts were as follows: My name is Donald. I don’t know anything. I have new underwear, a loose tooth and I didn’t sleep much last night. What if a bell rings and a man yells, “Where do you belong?” and I don’t know? …”

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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
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“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do. 

Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?
Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger. 


Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”

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TRANSFORMED OR CONFORMED (2nd in a series of two)

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A minister, a boy scout, and a computer expert were the only passengers on a small plane. The pilot came back to the cabin and said that the plane was going down but there were only three parachutes and four people.


The pilot then added, "I should have one of the parachutes because I have a wife and three small children." So he took one and jumped.

The computer whiz said, "I should have one of the parachutes because I am the smartest man in the world and everyone needs me."
So he took one and jumped.


The minister turned to the boy scout and said, "I have lived a good life and the Lord has been good to me. You take the remaining chute and I’ll go down with the plane."

The boy scout said, "Relax, reverend, the smartest man in the world just picked up my knapsack and jumped out!"
Sometimes, in the midst of this great adventure called life, this gift from God, if we are not careful we can be too smart for our good.

We pick and chose and we pick and chose badly.


And when it comes to moments when someone declares they are the masters of their fate and the captains of their souls it is a monumental mistake…monumental beyond the ability to so declare.

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The book of Romans 12:2 does lift up such an inspired quote, AS FOLLOWS, for us to chew on and digest in the center of our souls, “Be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (I sometimes like to think of this as a “rewiring of your mind.”

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Transformed or conformed? Making history or allowing ourselves to be made by it? Trans-formed or conformed? Molding society or shaped by it? Choosing Christ to such an extent that He is the master of our deeds rather than being influenced by every idle thought and action that proceedeth out of the mouths of our fellowmen.

Choose ye this day who you will be and who you will serve and give your soul to.


Remember that the greatest danger to freedom is freedom itself.


No one can take your freedom of choice away from you, but you can give it away. And remember! There is no one else on earth like you, and when you deny your destiny, you spit in the face of your heavenly father.

Therefore, allow God the privilege of making some revisions in your life because when He is through, you will be more courageous, more at peace, more kind, more like the child of this Father you were meant to be.


He will keep you from calling that which is evil, good. He will lead you to not pollute the air with profanity and call it freedom of expression. He will reward your choice with His ongoing presence.
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2 Corinthians 5:17
”Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”
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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES entitled ANGER IS A KILLER.
(ON WYRICK’S WRITINGS) (3)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/


“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?

Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.
Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”

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V. Neil Wyrick’s ninth book is THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN and is now available on amazon.com at some rather good discount prices

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