CHRISTIANITY BY REFLEX

Starting on my other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS on Nov 1...a 3 day series on HOW TO LESSEN ANXIETY.

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A different sermon is begun on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. 

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       The sermons found on this blog are selected sermons preached by Rev. Wyrick during a ministry of over 50 years.  This syndicated columnist/minister thanks you for visiting.

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How can you make your faith a vibrant, living part of your daily existence?  Be faithful to your church, even if it isn’t perfect and its leadership isn’t unerring.  Realize your church can never do its job if you are doing nothing but tearing it apart by a host of ongoing complaints.

 Another story to make my point.  A minister had had a car for many years and finally it began to break down.  He simply didn’t have the mechanical knowledge to repair it, nor did he feel he could afford to have it worked on, so he sold it to a young mechanical genius in high school.

The young man was ecstatic.  “I will make it as good as new.  Thank you for the opportunity.”

And so he began to work on the car.  Month after month when the minister would pass by his house, he would see the garage door open and the young man diligently working away.  Over a year had past and he continued to work on the car to

make it perfect before he drove it.  Two years

passed and a third year was about to become a reality and still the car was not being driven.

Shaking his head, the minister muttered to himself, “I know that ole car wasn’t perfect and that it needed a lot of repair, but mechanical genius or not he seems to have forgotten that cars are for going places and getting things done.”

The church…your faith…they are for going places and getting things done.  Never forget it.

Have you ever heard of the LOST & NOT FOUND Department?  And what is in that department you might ask. 

All the people who never learned to make up their minds and constantly labor in the throes of indecision and procrastination.

All the people who are always making promises and pledges and not fulfilling them.  Dreaming dreams and forgetting them.  Having faith and letting it shrivel and almost die.

All the people who have no goals in life and therefore no reason for living.

Know this...“Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.”  Let me repeat that…“Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.”  (Struthers Bart)