CONVICTION

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Sociology professor Anthony Campolo recalls a deeply moving incident that happened in a Christian junior high camp where he served.

        One of the campers, a boy with spastic paralysis, was the object of heartless ridicule.   When he would ask a question, the boys would deliberately answer in a halting, mimicking way.        

        One night his cabin group chose him to lead the devotions before the entire camp. It was one more effort to have some "fun" at his expense.

         Unashamedly the spastic boy stood up, and in his strained, slurred manner -- each word coming with enormous effort -- he said simple, "Jesus loves me -- and I love Jesus!"

         That was all. Conviction fell upon those junior-highers. Many began to cry. Revival gripped the camp.

        Years afterward, Campolo still meets men in the ministry who came to Christ because of that testimony.

        Some things are right and some things are wrong and as Christians we have to put our stamp of disproval on them.

        And then there is today when to call a sin a sin is described by some as being judgmental. At which time all discussion comes to an immediate close.  Everyone is intimidated and our lives become tattle tale grey...civility at any cost.

        I'm not saying be mean-spirited .  I am saying that if too many no longer have the strength of their convictions then as the old cliché' goes "If we stand for nothing we will be standing for anything."   

        Think what the world would be like if evil or bad or whatever you would call it had never been criticized by either word or deed.  Whatever there were no principles that men had been willing to die for or live for or both.

        In life there are perspectives...they are our aim and if we have no moral bulls eye we will spend our existence missing the target.

        We have our Christ and Christian teachings and while none of us comes close to living as we should it does not mean we must not consistently keep aiming and reaming toward our best.

Is being silent when we should speak up a sin?  Is it?

 

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"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our unjderstanding 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

JEALOUSY

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Two shopkeepers were bitter rivals.

        Their stores were directly across the street from each other, and they would spend each day keeping track of each other's business.

         If one got a customer, he would smile in triumph at his rival.

        One night an angel appeared to one of the shopkeepers in a dream and said, "I will give you anything you ask, but whatever you receive, your competitor will receive twice as much.

        Would you be rich? You can be very rich, but he will be twice as wealthy.

        Do you wish to live a long and healthy life? You can, but his life will be longer and healthier. What is your desire?"

        The man frowned, thought for a moment, and then said, "Here is my request: Strike me blind in one eye!"

        To live a life as an opera singer constantly singing "Me... Me...Me" is a sin and a shame and the emotional trauma it produces so unnecessary.  

      I've known people who have refused to participate in various activities if they could not be number one. 

      Pouted because they were not chosen number one in the choir or first choice in a play OR...

      and so pouted and stayed permanently put out...

      and quit the choir and wouldn't play a lesser part in the play...OR

          Think about it...Not what you can't do but what you can do...

      think about this the next time you sit in your backyard and hear some birds senging their bird songs into the air.

        Among them is one bird who possesses a bird voice better than all the others....yet they all sing...and so it is with all we humans...only one can be the number one singer or baseball player or golfer but thousands who possess the gift of gratitude make themselves content by enjoying life and not putting a number on their back.

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"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our unjderstanding 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

SOME MORE THOUGHTS ON PRAYING

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Some more thoughts on praying.   Prayer should be spontaneous but that does not mean it is not a good idea to think through the structure of what you have prayed.

          When you prayed, first did you listen?  Some people take the scripture that reads “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth” and rewrite it to read, “Listen Lord, thy servant speaketh.” (1 Samuel 3:10)

          Could what you prayed for be considered a Christian prayer?  Remember …if you end your prayer with the words “In Jesus name” you certainly want to have prayed a prayer he would approve.

          Was it a prayer you really wanted to be answered, something you really wanted to take place, an improvement in your person you were really committed to following through on.  A half hearted prayer is a wasted opportunity.

          Promise what you will do to help make the prayer come true.  You have prayed for help with your business?  Have you promised to work longer and harder?         

          You have asked for better health?  Are you committed to better a better diet and more exercise? 

Pray your prayer and then be patient.  You really don’t have to remind God about the prayer you just prayed two minutes ago.   He heard you.  He will answer your prayer in his own way in his own time. In short, don’t make your prayer an anxiety center.

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 "Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our unjderstanding 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 ofCunard

THY KINGDOM COME

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yes the below is for sat jan 7 2012 2012

THY KINGDOM COME

In 1857 there was a 46 year old man named Jeremiah Lamphere who lived in New York City. Jeremiah loved the Lord tremendously, but he didn’t feel that he could do much for the Lord until he began to feel a burden for the lost and accepted an invitation from his church to be an inner city missionary.

So in July of 1857 he started walking up and down the streets of New York passing out tracts and talking to people about Jesus, but he wasn’t having any success. Then God put it on his heart to try prayer. So he printed up a bunch of tracts, and he passed them out to anyone and everyone met. He invited anyone who wanted to come to the 3rd floor of the Old North Dutch Reform Church on Fulton St. in New York City from 12 to 1 on Wednesday to pray. He passed out hundreds and hundreds of fliers and put up posters everywhere he could.

Wednesday came and at noon nobody showed up. So Jeremiah got on his knees and started praying. For 30 minutes he prayed by himself when finally five other people walked in. The next week 20 people came. The next week between 30 and 40 people came. They then decided to meet every day from 12:00 to 1:00 to pray for the city.

Before long a few ministers started coming and they said, "We need to start this at our churches." Within six months there were over 5000 prayer groups meeting everyday in N.Y. Soon the word spread all over the country. Prayer meetings were started in Philadelphia, Detroit, and Washington D.C. In fact President Franklin Pierce started going almost every day to a noonday prayer meeting. By 1859 some 15,000 cities in America were having downtown prayer meetings everyday at noon, and thousands were brought to Christ.

The great thing about this revival is that there is not a famous preacher associated with it. It was all started by one man wanting to pray.

2000 years ago, on a hillside over-looking the Sea of Galilee, one of the Disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray.  What He told them has come to be known as THE LORD’S PRAYER. 

          We often start our own personal prayers the same way He taught, “Our Father…” and if we think about it, we are not just praying toward a heavenly Person in a heavenly place, but talking with Him in a very close, personal relationship.

“Hallowed be thy name…” and we add this spiritual clause to remind ourselves we have just connected with the Lord of the Universe, the Creator of all things including, and most importantly right then, ourselves. 

          “Thy Kingdom come.  Thy will be done…”  Be careful; give considerable thought when you repeat this.  Saying and meaning, “Thy will be done…” can be dangerous.  It may force you onto a rooftop frantically beating a drum. 

What am I talking about?  Well, in a play I saw many years ago there are soldiers preparing for a surprise attack on a village.  

However, a farm family sees what is happening.  They muse on what they should do.  They know they should somehow warn the villagers but they also know that if they try to do so they will quite likely be shot.  So instead of running into town to spread the alarm, they simply take the safer route and begin to pray.

          However, their mute daughter leaves them down on their knees, climbs to the roof and begins to loudly beat on a drum the family has had for years.  Her frantic beating awakens the villagers and at least some of them escape.  The girl is shot. 

“Thy Kingdom come.  Thy will be done.”  It is a dangerous part of the Lord’s Prayer if it is taken at face value and we force ourselves toward actions we know may well have adverse as well as positive consequences.

          “Give us this day our daily bread…”  The French classes I took years ago have pretty much gone to some hidden recess in my brain, however, one French word bourrer, which means “to stuff” came to mind as I considered this because deep down inside when we pray this prayer we are right on the edge of praying that our lives be stuffed with “stuff.” 

Food, and complete financial success, and friends that love us so much we do not have to try to improve, and newer and bigger houses and cars and …well, some of the poor and hungry when they pray “Give us this day our daily bread” mean just what they say…but in a rich America, many Americans really do mean something else.

          “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors…” which is the Presbyterian way of putting it, or “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us “ how Methodist and others say it. 

 Or “Forgive us of our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.”  And this is not a casual part of the prayer.  It is a deep emotional spiritual need we all cannot really survive without. 

Forgiveness from our God and our forgiveness toward our fellowman, our spouse, our children, our friends, even strangers from off the streets.  If we do not forgive, as we ask God to forgive us, we shrink, we grow sick, we die inside.

          “And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil…”  But prayer without our follow-through is like reading a cookbook but never making it into the kitchen. 

          “For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory,” and the stating of this fact cannot be done too often.

Prayer without improvement makes prayer a Tower of Babel.  When we have asked for God’s forgiveness and His guidance it should all be building blocks upon which to build a better you and me.  Otherwise, we only fill the air with words but do not construct a personal sanctuary. 

A prayer worth praying doesn’t just devoutly whisper, “Thy will be done.”  It shouts it loudly from the center of one’s soul

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 "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

"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 retired)

PRAYER...THE GREAT AVENUE TO GOD

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I have spent a lifetime praying and reading others who have done the same and seek to share such wondrous moments. I meld my thoughts with such great and gracious thoughts as a quote from the book by Tim Hansel "When I Feel Guilty."

He writes about what many people want from God...and yes having read it...ask yourself what you want from God.

"I would like to buy $3.00 worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine.

I don't want enough of Him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3.00 worth of God, please."

Prayer? It is the one place our independence seeks dependence. Whether we are thanking God or pleading our case before His throne of mercy, we are in essence saying, “Here am I, Lord, take me.”

And if you say to me, “I try to pray, really I do, but I just can’t concentrate on anything for very long, even God,” I would reply, “Don’t try to conquer a mountain until you have learned how to climb a hill.”

Work on a moment, just one moment, before you extend to a minute, and when you have mastered that then try two minutes – you get the picture.

To enlarge your capacity for things of the spirit you must learn to decrease the time you spend thinking on things less worthy of your thoughts.

And do not fear to turn your life over to God. . Another way of putting it, “Be as bold in prayer as the first person to ever eat an oyster.” (rewrite of a quote by Shirley Grisholm)

I like to call what I am talking about “The Building of a Prayer Fence” A prayer fence to protect ourselves from our worst selves.

We usually know our own particular weaknesses; the places where we have far less control than we would like.

Places where we speak before we think and act before we consider what is wise or prudent. So, visualize a fence, this prayer fence that will keep in your best and keep out your worst.

And believe that if something is worth praying for once, it is worth praying for again and again. Jesus makes no bones about this holy truth. He actually tells us to set up the habit of repeated prayers. “Pray without ceasing.”

Or as An early Greek theologian, Clement of Alexandria, put it, “Prayer is keeping company with God.” And yes, we always become more like whoever we keep company

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"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

"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 retired)

OUR MEMORY FACTORIES (Continuation of Series)

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            It has been over 40 years since a photographer captured the picture of a terribly burned little Vietnamese girl staggering down a highway. 

            The terror in her eyes told it all.  She had been to hell and back for war does not ask for a birth certificate before it does its damage.  It does not discriminate, it simply destroys any and all that lie in its path. 

            One would assume that this little one did not survive, but she did.  Survived to be part of a Veteran’s Day celebration in Washington, DC in the year 1996.  Survived to lay a wreath at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial.

             Survived to speak the following words, “I have suffered a lot from both physical and emotional pain.  Sometimes I could not breathe.  But God saved my life and gave me faith and hope.  Even if I could talk face-to-face with the pilot who dropped the bombs, I would tell him, ‘We cannot change history, but we should try to do good things for the present and for the future to promote peace.”

            Ah, yes, she survived.  Survived to hear the sobs of those who listened to her words of forgiveness.  This little girl, now a grown woman, took an atrocity and turned it into a moment of amazing grace.  Did not forget but also did not let the memory destroy her

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 "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

"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 retired)

"Wyrick has authored a wonderful examination of the spirituality of one of America's history most devoutly relious 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 ofhumility 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 studyofLincoln'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 dear and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in keeping with the character of his 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 if the RMS Titanic, The Lusitania and The Age of Cunard

FAILURE

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Thomas Edison's manufacturing facilities in West Orange, N.J., were heavily damaged by fire one night in December, 1914. Edison lost almost $1 million worth of equipment and the record of much of his work. The next morning, walking about the charred embers of his hopes and dreams, the 67-year-old inventor said: "There is value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Now we can start anew."

FAILURE IS EASY TO COME BY or learn from or/and both

     It isn’t difficult to fail in this adventure called life.  All one has to do is follow these daily dozen…

1. Spend all your time planning but never doing.
2. Try to do three things all at once.
3. Don’t keep after a job until it is finished.
4. Don’t make a priority list.
5. Or…waste your time making one and then conveniently misplacing it.
6. Waste the time of day that you are at your best.
7. Don’t make deadlines.
8. Never do first what you don’t want to do but know you should do or have done.
9. Chase other people’s dreams while calling them your own.
10. Never ask for help.
11. Work hard at being disorganized.
12. Read these suggestions and promptly immediately forget them.

       It isn’t that failure is always bad. Thomas Edison failed thousands of times and learned from every one of them.   He studied them and let them be his teacher.  He let them plow his field of thought by turning them over and over in his mind.

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