THE SEAL OF SUNSET

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 A number of years back on "The Merv Griffin Show," the guest was a body builder.

          During the interview, Merv asked "Why do you develop those particular muscles?"

          The body builder simply stepped forward and flexed a series of well-defined muscles from chest to calf.

          The audience applauded. "What do you use all those muscles for?"

          Merv asked. Again, the muscular specimen flexed, and biceps and triceps sprouted to impressive proportions.

          "But what do you USE those muscles for?" Merv persisted. The body builder was bewildered. He didn't have an answer other than to display his well-developed frame.

          We have to be careful as we build our spiritual muscles for like the muscle builder...if we are not careful...we will be building them so we can show off our spiritual muscles  and receive praise for them.

          Bible reading pushups..for then folk will say of us..."He/she is a good man/woman look how much they study the Bible.  And studying the Bible is good...but what then do we do with these spiritual truths...how often do we put these muscles in action by loving the unloveable and forgiving the unforgiveable?

          Prayer exercises  and it does indeed strengthen our souls but then do we go out and physically help someone we have been praying for.

          Spiritual muscles gained from spiritual exercises are good but they must be used in Christian works and actions.

There is no particular virtue to growing old if you do not grow up.  Someone once wrote on the tombstone of a recently deceased, “Died at 30, buried at 80.” 

With no God above, with no friends about, with no goal set before you to achieve, you can grow weary of SO MUCH NOTHINGNESS and feel a fatigue for which there is no cure.

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Two NEW SERIES began on WYRICK'S WRITINGS Recently.

DOES DISCOURAGEMENT MAKE A BIG DENT IN YOUR LIFE? (Oct 13th)

HOW TO TURN BAD TIMES INTO GOOD TIMES

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      Began Tuesday Sept 13                                                         CAN GOD SMILE?  CAN GOD CRY?   Plus recent other additions Christianity by Reflex, Stretching your Soul, The Galilee Gallery etc.

DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 9TH BOOK (The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln) by Rev. Wyrick

...at Christmas time.

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POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20 CENTURY

SPECIAL SALE...We've managed to purchase new copies of my book "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN at a very good price...therefore...just send $3 (NO CHARGE FOR POSTAGE OR HANDLING) to:

Pageantry Inc. (The Church Without Walls) 7430 SW 59th Street, Miami, Florida 33143 

and we will immediately send you a copy of this book about which has been written...

"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understaning and appreciation of Lincoln...(Lt. Colonel C.A.Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)

"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)

"THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN is an extremely well written book...it is both scholarly and very readable.  I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of that President with an altered and enlarged vision of the man. (William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer, author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn.)                                             

GO TO SPEAKER.NEIL TO SEE NEIL'S ONE MAN AWARD WINNING DRAMATIZATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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CHOOSE YOU THIS DAY

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Two gentlemen were one day crossing the river in a ferryboat.

 A dispute about faith and works arose, one saying that good works were of small importance and that faith was everything, the other asserting the contrary.

 Neither being able to convince the other, the ferryman asked permission to give his opinion. Upon consent he said, "I hold in my hand two oars.

That in my right hand, I call 'faith'; the other, in my left, 'works.'

Now, gentlemen, please observe. I pull the oar of faith and pull that alone. See! the boat goes round and round, and the boat makes no progress.

I do the same with the oar of works with precisely similar results -- no advance. Mark! I pull both together.

We go on apace, and in a very few minutes we shall be at our landing place.

So, in my humble opinion neither faith without works nor works without faith will suffice.

Let there be both, and the haven of eternal rest is sure to be reached."

On the 23^rd of September, 1928, I became a part of this world.  Not in 1898 as did my mother, or 1890 as did my father or 1859 as did my grandfather. 

For whatever reason, in the halls of heaven it was decreed that this totally marvelous process called birth would be successful in my case those 83 years ago.  I didn’t choose the day of my beginning. 

But during the 25,550 days of the average lifetime I do get to chose whether I will give glory and praise to the worthwhile or the worthless.  I do get to have a faith that is robust, ineffectual, or tattle-tale gray. 

My email messages come through Earthlink which has a delightful program called Spam Blocker.  It blocks all kind of email messages I have no interest in and which might create for me and my computer harm. 

In the real world my faith can be considered my personal Spam Blocker. 

 I live in a changing culture and it is constantly sending me messages and spiritual and moral TRUTHS and there are viruses that would infect these positive messages if  they are not blocked.

And yes,  if I do not constantly make a joyful noise to my Lord many other less joyful or spiritually productive noises may come breaking through. 

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DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 9TH BOOK (The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln) by Rev. Wyrick

AT CHRISTMAS TIME

available on amazon.com

ANOTHER BOOK BY REV. WYRICK "POIOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY"

available on Amazon.com

Two NEW SERIES began on WYRICK'S WRITINGS Recently.

 

DOES DISCOURAGEMENT MAKE A BIG DENT IN YOUR LIFE? (Oct 13th)

HOW TO TURN BAD TIMES INTO GOOD TIMES

(Oct 25th)

To read them

 

Click below to go to the blog

http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com

      Began Tuesday Sept 13                                                         CAN GOD SMILE?  CAN GOD CRY?   Plus recent other additions Christianity by Reflex, Stretching your Soul, The Galilee Gallery etc.

DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 9TH BOOK (The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln) by Rev. Wyrick

...at Christmas time.

ANOTHER OF REV. WYRICK'S BOOKS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM

POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20 CENTURY

SPECIAL SALE...We've managed to purchase new copies of my book "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN at a very good price...therefore...just send $3 (NO CHARGE FOR POSTAGE OR HANDLING) to:

Pageantry Inc. (The Church Without Walls) 7430 SW 59th Street, Miami, Florida 33143 

and we will immediately send you a copy of this book about which has been written...

"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understaning and appreciation of Lincoln...(Lt. Colonel C.A.Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)

"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)

"THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN is an extremely well written book...it is both scholarly and very readable.  I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of that President with an altered and enlarged vision of the man. (William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer, author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn.)                                             

GO TO SPEAKER.NEIL TO SEE NEIL'S ONE MAN AWARD WINNING DRAMATIZATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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THE WHY OF YOUR LIVING

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President John F. Kennedy in a speech that he was never able to deliver due to his assassination, wrote these words:

"We in this country, in this generation, are by destiny rather than choice the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, goodwill toward men."

What will God ask?

           In that future time of questions perhaps he will inquire not what you have destroyed but what you have built, not what you have condemned but what you have blessed, not where you have planted seeds of discord by faultfinding but where you have cultivated a bountiful harvest of improvement.

          Perhaps he will ask, How often did you love?

           How often did you contain your anger as against letting it roam destructively wherever it wished? 

          How often did you forgive? 

          How often did you promote unity and make the angels sing? 

          What will God ask?  I, too, must wait to find out, but while we live, it does justice to time and eternity to ask the questions and at the same time look for honest answers rather than withering excuses.

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DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 9TH BOOK (The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln) by Rev. Wyrick

AT CHRISTMAS TIME

available on amazon.com

ANOTHER BOOK BY REV. WYRICK "POIOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY"

available on Amazon.com

Two NEW SERIES began on WYRICK'S WRITINGS Recently.

DOES DISCOURAGEMENT MAKE A BIG DENT IN YOUR LIFE? (Oct 13th)

HOW TO TURN BAD TIMES INTO GOOD TIMES

(Oct 25th)

To read them

Click below to go to the blog

http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com

      Began Tuesday Sept 13                                                         CAN GOD SMILE?  CAN GOD CRY?   Plus recent other additions Christianity by Reflex, Stretching your Soul, The Galilee Gallery etc.

DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 9TH BOOK (The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln) by Rev. Wyrick

...at Christmas time.

ANOTHER OF REV. WYRICK'S BOOKS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM

POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20 CENTURY

SPECIAL SALE...We've managed to purchase new copies of my book "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN at a very good price...therefore...just send $3 (NO CHARGE FOR POSTAGE OR HANDLING) to:

Pageantry Inc. (The Church Without Walls) 7430 SW 59th Street, Miami, Florida 33143 

and we will immediately send you a copy of this book about which has been written...

"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understaning and appreciation of Lincoln...(Lt. Colonel C.A.Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)

"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)

"THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN is an extremely well written book...it is both scholarly and very readable.  I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of that President with an altered and enlarged vision of the man. (William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer, author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn.)                                             

GO TO SPEAKER.NEIL TO SEE NEIL'S ONE MAN AWARD WINNING DRAMATIZATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

. CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING

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ONCE UPON A TIME

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A drill sergeant barked out an order to a bunch of recruits: "All you dumbbells, get moving!"

        All but one obeyed.

        Angered by his seeming defiance, the sergeant marched up to him and growled, "Well?"

        The young recruit replied, "There certainly were a lot of them, Sir!"

        When is it wise to take advice or an order?  When is wisdom best served by listening and then making a wise and well thought decisions.

Once upon a time there was a person who was a fool, and he stayed that way. 

          He would never listen to advice.

           He would never study to gain information either secular or sacred.  He had a hard head and every day it grew harder, a cruel heart and ever day it grew more mean, a weak soul and as the days passed

          He did nothing to improve the twisted and dark path down which he passed. 

          He cursed God, found fault with people, carried a chip on his shoulder, and never sang a song. 

          He found every day more miserable than the last and blamed everybody and everything buthimself.

          And one day he died, unblessed, unlovely and unloved, a destiny never having found his better self, a life wasted. 

Once upon a time…every life begins that way, and an unknown number of tomorrows stretch ahead – to what?

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DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 9TH BOOK (The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln) by Rev. Wyrick

AT CHRISTMAS TIME

available on amazon.com

 

ANOTHER BOOK BY REV. WYRICK "POIOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY"

available on Amazon.com

 

Two NEW SERIES began on WYRICK'S WRITINGS Recently.

 

DOES DISCOURAGEMENT MAKE A BIG DENT IN YOUR LIFE? (Oct 13th)

HOW TO TURN BAD TIMES INTO GOOD TIMES

(Oct 25th)

To read them

Click below to go to the blog

http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com

      Began Tuesday Sept 13                                                         CAN GOD SMILE?  CAN GOD CRY?   Plus recent other additions Christianity by Reflex, Stretching your Soul, The Galilee Gallery etc.

DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 9TH BOOK (The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln) by Rev. Wyrick

...at Christmas time.

ANOTHER OF REV. WYRICK'S BOOKS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM

POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20 CENTURY

SPECIAL SALE...We've managed to purchase new copies of my book "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN at a very good price...therefore...just send $3 (NO CHARGE FOR POSTAGE OR HANDLING) to:

Pageantry Inc. (The Church Without Walls) 7430 SW 59th Street, Miami, Florida 33143 

and we will immediately send you a copy of this book about which has been written...

"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understaning and appreciation of Lincoln...(Lt. Colonel C.A.Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)

"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)

"THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN is an extremely well written book...it is both scholarly and very readable.  I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of that President with an altered and enlarged vision of the man. (William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer, author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn.)                                          

GO TO SPEAKER.NEIL TO SEE NEIL'S ONE MAN AWARD WINNING DRAMATIZATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

. CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING

http://www.speakerneil.com/

BE NOT PROUD OF LOUD

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BE NOT PROUD OF LOUD/nov 9 2011

I heard a loudmouth today. 

          His tongue was a whip, his thoughts a sickness.

          His heart was turned off while his volume was turned up high  It wasn’t a cold day to begin with, but the pettiness of his anger sent a chill up my spine.  

          I only hope that listening to it sent some wisdom into my soul.  I have heard his kind before bellowing over nothing as if all of time and eternity were at stake. 

          I have been guilty myself.  But it is so foolish, so unreasonable. 

          The book of Proverbs had a word for it.  It reads “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” (Proverbs 16:32)

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DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 9TH BOOK (The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln) by Rev. Wyrick

AT CHRISTMAS TIME

available on amazon.com

 

ANOTHER BOOK BY REV. WYRICK "POIOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY"

available on Amazon.com

Two NEW SERIES began on WYRICK'S WRITINGS Recently.

 

DOES DISCOURAGEMENT MAKE A BIG DENT IN YOUR LIFE? (Oct 13th)

HOW TO TURN BAD TIMES INTO GOOD TIMES

(Oct 25th)

To read them

Click below to go to the blog

http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com

 

      Began Tuesday Sept 13                                                         CAN GOD SMILE?  CAN GOD CRY?   Plus recent other additions Christianity by Reflex, Stretching your Soul, The Galilee Gallery etc.

DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 9TH BOOK (The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln) by Rev. Wyrick

...at Christmas time.

 

ANOTHER OF REV. WYRICK'S BOOKS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM

POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20 CENTURY

SPECIAL SALE...We've managed to purchase new copies of my book "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN at a very good price...therefore...just send $3 (NO CHARGE FOR POSTAGE OR HANDLING) to:

Pageantry Inc. (The Church Without Walls) 7430 SW 59th Street, Miami, Florida 33143 

and we will immediately send you a copy of this book about which has been written...

"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understaning and appreciation of Lincoln...(Lt. Colonel C.A.Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)

"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)

"THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN is an extremely well written book...it is both scholarly and very readable.  I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of that President with an altered and enlarged vision of the man. (William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer, author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn.)                                       

GO TO SPEAKER.NEIL TO SEE NEIL'S ONE MAN AWARD WINNING DRAMATIZATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

. CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING

http://www.speakerneil.com/

MOMENTS WITH MEANING

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          When Robert Louis Stevenson was a boy he once remarked to his mother, "Momma, you can't be good without praying." "How do you know, Robert?" she asked. "Because I've tried!" he answered.

          Go out today and do something you haven’t done in a long time, if ever.

           Read at least fifty lines from the lips of your Lord.  Pray at least five minutes for others without one prayer for yourself.  Call some enemy and try to make he or she a friend. 

          Forget and forgive some hurt that has festered in your soul, making you and the recipient two miserable people. 

          Think on someone you dislike and try to write down about them at least two good points 

          Then look at a leaf and study its symmetry. 

          Hold a flower close and let your eyes move along each intricate, tiny pattern.

           The world is caught up in too much hate, and for all our prideful answers the basic answers that have the strength of eternity in them must come from ever warmer hearts, lives with more of beauty in them and seeing things through a soul that is busy acquiring 20/20 vision.

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DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 9TH BOOK (The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln) by Rev. Wyrick available on Amazon.com

AT CHRISTMAS TIME

ANOTHER BOOK BY REV. WYRICK "POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY" available on Amazon.com

Two NEW SERIES began on WYRICK'S WRITINGS Recently.

 

DOES DISCOURAGEMENT MAKE A BIG DENT IN YOUR LIFE? (Oct 13th)

HOW TO TURN BAD TIMES INTO GOOD TIMES

(Oct 25th)

To read them

Click below to go to the blog

http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com

      Began Tuesday Sept 13                                                         CAN GOD SMILE?  CAN GOD CRY?   Plus recent other additions Christianity by Reflex, Stretching your Soul, The Galilee Gallery etc.

DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED 9TH BOOK (The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln) by Rev. Wyrick

...at Christmas time.

ANOTHER OF REV. WYRICK'S BOOKS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM

POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK FOR THE 20 CENTURY

SPECIAL SALE...We've managed to purchase new copies of my book "THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN at a very good price...therefore...just send $3 (NO CHARGE FOR POSTAGE OR HANDLING) to:

Pageantry Inc. (The Church Without Walls) 7430 SW 59th Street, Miami, Florida 33143 

and we will immediately send you a copy of this book about which has been written...

"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understaning and appreciation of Lincoln...(Lt. Colonel C.A.Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)

"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)

"THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN is an extremely well written book...it is both scholarly and very readable.  I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of that President with an altered and enlarged vision of the man. (William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer, author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn.)                                             

GO TO SPEAKER.NEIL TO SEE NEIL'S ONE MAN AWARD WINNING DRAMATIZATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

. CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING

http://www.speakerneil.com/