This is a continuation of a series of Lenten thoughts appropriate to the remembering our Christ with all the awe He truly deserves.. Please consider sharing these Lenten thoughts with a host of your friends.
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
In this wonderful opportunity called living, do you regularly consider giving your all toward sowing healing rather than destruction?
Making harmony rather than discord?
Creating peace rather than strife?
Making the world a better place to live in rather than living in such a manner people will be glad when finally you leave it? I’m sure your answer is yes, of course I want to be a good, loving human being. But now having said, yes, you are faced with the challenge of actually doing it.
Plato called love, “divine madness.” And to those who have heard but not completely understood the Lord’s teachings, the kind of love He calls for must really seem a little off the wall. Yet it is His commandments to follow an unselfish love that can keep us from being inhumane.
In simple terms, you cannot prayerfully think on the Lord, and hate your fellowman. You cannot pray to God, and mouth obscenities toward another human being.
Or, as that oft sung hymn relates, “Oh what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.” I’d like to make an insert “carry everything WITH LOVE to God in prayer.”
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins” Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
THE BATTLEFIELD OF SELF
This is a continuation of a series of Lenten thoughts appropriate to the remembering our Christ with all the awe He truly deserves.. Please consider sharing these Lenten thoughts with a host of your friends.
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
CHECK OUT JANUARY 15TH I STARTED A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER ON MY OTHER BLOG. SEE BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
Genesis 6:9-14
Noah was a righteous man,
blameless among the people of his time,
and he walked with God.
When I consider commitment, I often think of Noah and the God-ordered Ark.
Of how challenging and comforting it is to read of a man so committed to God he could ignore the ridicule of his neighbors and keep on keeping on for a total of 120 years.
Without paralyzing pride to slow him down, nothing was too small for him to do. He readily cut the timbers, patiently crafted the planks, with honest fortitude chiseled the wood and bored the holes, until finally one day he had constructed a massive monument to the will of his Heavenly Father.
If he had given this 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high ship a name, it would have had to be Commitment.
Now when it comes to a heavenly command to commitment it is highly doubtful you will ever be asked to build an ark or anything near that size as a giant monument.
However, you have already been commanded to make your life a monument. “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2)
I’m sure you all have your own mental description of what commitment is, but have you ever considered that actually it is a battlefield?
A place where your best self constantly battles your worst self? Were I to ask you which self do you want to win, your answer would be immediate and sincere. You would reply, “I want that self that does not just talk victory to win.
I do not want to be a victim of my own weak and willy-nilly follow through in things I have committed myself to do. I have said, ‘Lord, here am I take me.’ That is what I want to do. That is who I want to be.”
Remember Nicodemus?
Most anyone who has read the Bible knows he was a Pharisee, a leader among the Jews. An insider who proudly boasted to Jesus, “I know who you are. You are a teacher from the hills of Galilee. We know you come from God.”
He spoke with pride. A theologian who had the right answer. But, bright and shining student that he was, he still he had come by night to have a secret conversation with the Nazarene.
What happened next was a natural outgrown of the piercing way Jesus had in getting to the heart of a matter. Jesus looked at him, saw his fear that others might find out how he felt about Him, saw his reluctance to commit to the truth and said in so many words, “Talk is cheap but birth is final. Nicodemus, you must be born again.”
Suddenly, it was no longer a conference to gain knowledge, but a call to commitment.
Now it was not just a visit in the night, but a call to make it a pilgrimage. And Nicodemus wasn’t illuminated. He was confused and for a short while he was plain scared.
“How can anyone be born again after growing old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb?” he asked.
“Nicodemus,” the Bible does not have Jesus call him by name but I like to think that at such a personal time of the soul searching, He did. Simply, softly with a warm, kind, teaching voice, “Nicodemus, God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not (be lost) but may have eternal life.”
And in this very personal time, as we talk about our souls, remember He says again, “Nicodemus, Neil, John, Grace, Florence, whatever your name is…God so loved you and me that He included us in that promise. He really did.
What was the response of Nicodemus? Well, it is worth noting that one time in the Temple when the crowds were shouting for Jesus’ scalp, one man would stand up to defend Him. And the name of that man? Nicodemus.
Born again, energized, motivated. The widow who gave all her money; the Syrophoenician woman who gave all her pride; the Samaritan who gave all his gratitude; the Roman Centurion who gave all his will; John the Baptist who gave all his body and his zeal; Simon Peter who gave all his mind; Mary of Bethany who gave all her heart.” (paraphrase of comments made by Glenn Clark in his book, “A Man’s Reach”) The magic word is all.
Not part time but full employment of the soul. A life not falling away from its best by blaming heredity, or environment, or people, or places or things. Rather a life reaching up and saying “Being born again is one whale of a step but if I am going to consider it I certainly ought to go all the way.”
Robert Browning put it well, “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.”
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins” Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
CHECK OUT JANUARY 15TH I STARTED A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER ON MY OTHER BLOG. SEE BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
Genesis 6:9-14
Noah was a righteous man,
blameless among the people of his time,
and he walked with God.
When I consider commitment, I often think of Noah and the God-ordered Ark.
Of how challenging and comforting it is to read of a man so committed to God he could ignore the ridicule of his neighbors and keep on keeping on for a total of 120 years.
Without paralyzing pride to slow him down, nothing was too small for him to do. He readily cut the timbers, patiently crafted the planks, with honest fortitude chiseled the wood and bored the holes, until finally one day he had constructed a massive monument to the will of his Heavenly Father.
If he had given this 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high ship a name, it would have had to be Commitment.
Now when it comes to a heavenly command to commitment it is highly doubtful you will ever be asked to build an ark or anything near that size as a giant monument.
However, you have already been commanded to make your life a monument. “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2)
I’m sure you all have your own mental description of what commitment is, but have you ever considered that actually it is a battlefield?
A place where your best self constantly battles your worst self? Were I to ask you which self do you want to win, your answer would be immediate and sincere. You would reply, “I want that self that does not just talk victory to win.
I do not want to be a victim of my own weak and willy-nilly follow through in things I have committed myself to do. I have said, ‘Lord, here am I take me.’ That is what I want to do. That is who I want to be.”
Remember Nicodemus?
Most anyone who has read the Bible knows he was a Pharisee, a leader among the Jews. An insider who proudly boasted to Jesus, “I know who you are. You are a teacher from the hills of Galilee. We know you come from God.”
He spoke with pride. A theologian who had the right answer. But, bright and shining student that he was, he still he had come by night to have a secret conversation with the Nazarene.
What happened next was a natural outgrown of the piercing way Jesus had in getting to the heart of a matter. Jesus looked at him, saw his fear that others might find out how he felt about Him, saw his reluctance to commit to the truth and said in so many words, “Talk is cheap but birth is final. Nicodemus, you must be born again.”
Suddenly, it was no longer a conference to gain knowledge, but a call to commitment.
Now it was not just a visit in the night, but a call to make it a pilgrimage. And Nicodemus wasn’t illuminated. He was confused and for a short while he was plain scared.
“How can anyone be born again after growing old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb?” he asked.
“Nicodemus,” the Bible does not have Jesus call him by name but I like to think that at such a personal time of the soul searching, He did. Simply, softly with a warm, kind, teaching voice, “Nicodemus, God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not (be lost) but may have eternal life.”
And in this very personal time, as we talk about our souls, remember He says again, “Nicodemus, Neil, John, Grace, Florence, whatever your name is…God so loved you and me that He included us in that promise. He really did.
What was the response of Nicodemus? Well, it is worth noting that one time in the Temple when the crowds were shouting for Jesus’ scalp, one man would stand up to defend Him. And the name of that man? Nicodemus.
Born again, energized, motivated. The widow who gave all her money; the Syrophoenician woman who gave all her pride; the Samaritan who gave all his gratitude; the Roman Centurion who gave all his will; John the Baptist who gave all his body and his zeal; Simon Peter who gave all his mind; Mary of Bethany who gave all her heart.” (paraphrase of comments made by Glenn Clark in his book, “A Man’s Reach”) The magic word is all.
Not part time but full employment of the soul. A life not falling away from its best by blaming heredity, or environment, or people, or places or things. Rather a life reaching up and saying “Being born again is one whale of a step but if I am going to consider it I certainly ought to go all the way.”
Robert Browning put it well, “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.”
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins” Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
\WHAT KIND OF VISION IS THE LEADER OF YOUR BAND OF THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS?
This is a continuation of a series of Lenten thoughts appropriate to the remembering our Christ with all the awe He truly deserves.. Please consider sharing these Lenten thoughts with a host of your friends.
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
CHECK OUT JANUARY 15TH I STARTED A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER ON MY OTHER BLOG. SEE BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
A young man had hated his parents for ten years. They had quarreled and he was not a forgiving person. He didn’t just hold a grudge, he embraced it.
There was a barrenness about his soul that made him unable to feel at ease, either with the world or the inner world of his spirit.
And then one day he found Christ.
And the commandments to love his fellowman and his God with equal vigor overwhelmed him, and his faith became a living thing. He began to trust more and lose his temper less and his favorite hymn became “What a friend I have in Jesus.” He had heard about being born again and now he was and when one night he took stock of how he had changed, he wept with joy.
I have not yet seen one of them, but there are now movies with alternate endings. The story line is changed just enough to reach different conclusions. You get to pick the one you like best. A fascinating idea.
And that is how it is with us and our own lives. If along the way you had reacted differently to certain things, consider how the whole script of your life would have been altered.
It is a “What if “ game we all have played. What would have happened if we had done this or that? Gone here or there? Made a political or theological turn to the right or left? Met this person or that person rather than ones we did meet? You have chosen certain people as your friends, a certain pattern of life to follow, whether to make God number one or further down the list.
What if? When it comes to life and its choices, it is not an idle question.
In your everyday life, how often do you ask yourself, what would Jesus do in this situation? Or do you just wing it? Is faith a factor in your life rather than an aside? There is a difference.
In this colorful world what does your faith look like? Is it a bright and shining thing? Or is it often tattle-tale grey? In the spectrum of your soul it makes a difference, it really does.
“Where there is no vision, the people perish…” says the book of Proverbs. (29:18)
The writer Katherine Logan wrote, “If a vision is of God then it is a vision that comes in advance of a task well done.” (rewritten)
Whoever we are, whatever we do, intermingling a strong faith with life makes us a stronger person, a better person, less of a me-first person.
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins” Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
CHECK OUT JANUARY 15TH I STARTED A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER ON MY OTHER BLOG. SEE BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
A young man had hated his parents for ten years. They had quarreled and he was not a forgiving person. He didn’t just hold a grudge, he embraced it.
There was a barrenness about his soul that made him unable to feel at ease, either with the world or the inner world of his spirit.
And then one day he found Christ.
And the commandments to love his fellowman and his God with equal vigor overwhelmed him, and his faith became a living thing. He began to trust more and lose his temper less and his favorite hymn became “What a friend I have in Jesus.” He had heard about being born again and now he was and when one night he took stock of how he had changed, he wept with joy.
I have not yet seen one of them, but there are now movies with alternate endings. The story line is changed just enough to reach different conclusions. You get to pick the one you like best. A fascinating idea.
And that is how it is with us and our own lives. If along the way you had reacted differently to certain things, consider how the whole script of your life would have been altered.
It is a “What if “ game we all have played. What would have happened if we had done this or that? Gone here or there? Made a political or theological turn to the right or left? Met this person or that person rather than ones we did meet? You have chosen certain people as your friends, a certain pattern of life to follow, whether to make God number one or further down the list.
What if? When it comes to life and its choices, it is not an idle question.
In your everyday life, how often do you ask yourself, what would Jesus do in this situation? Or do you just wing it? Is faith a factor in your life rather than an aside? There is a difference.
In this colorful world what does your faith look like? Is it a bright and shining thing? Or is it often tattle-tale grey? In the spectrum of your soul it makes a difference, it really does.
“Where there is no vision, the people perish…” says the book of Proverbs. (29:18)
The writer Katherine Logan wrote, “If a vision is of God then it is a vision that comes in advance of a task well done.” (rewritten)
Whoever we are, whatever we do, intermingling a strong faith with life makes us a stronger person, a better person, less of a me-first person.
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins” Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
DO YOU COURT DIVINE MADNESS?
This is a continuation of a series of Lenten thoughts appropriate to the remembering our Christ with all the awe He truly deserves.. Please consider sharing these Lenten thoughts with a host of your friends.
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
CHECK OUT JANUARY 15TH I STARTED A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER ON MY OTHER BLOG. SEE BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
In this wonderful opportunity called living, do you regularly consider giving your all toward sowing healing rather than destruction?
Making harmony rather than discord?
Creating peace rather than strife?
Making the world a better place to live in rather than living in such a manner people will be glad when finally you leave it? I’m sure your answer is yes, of course I want to be a good, loving human being. But now having said, yes, you are faced with the challenge of actually doing it.
Plato called love, “divine madness.” And to those who have heard but not completely understood the Lord’s teachings, the kind of love He calls for must really seem a little off the wall. Yet it is His commandments to follow an unselfish love that can keep us from being inhumane.
In simple terms, you cannot prayerfully think on the Lord, and hate your fellowman. You cannot pray to God, and mouth obscenities toward another human being.
Or, as that oft sung hymn relates, “Oh what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.” I’d like to make an insert “carry everything WITH LOVE to God in prayer.”
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins” Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
CHECK OUT JANUARY 15TH I STARTED A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER ON MY OTHER BLOG. SEE BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
In this wonderful opportunity called living, do you regularly consider giving your all toward sowing healing rather than destruction?
Making harmony rather than discord?
Creating peace rather than strife?
Making the world a better place to live in rather than living in such a manner people will be glad when finally you leave it? I’m sure your answer is yes, of course I want to be a good, loving human being. But now having said, yes, you are faced with the challenge of actually doing it.
Plato called love, “divine madness.” And to those who have heard but not completely understood the Lord’s teachings, the kind of love He calls for must really seem a little off the wall. Yet it is His commandments to follow an unselfish love that can keep us from being inhumane.
In simple terms, you cannot prayerfully think on the Lord, and hate your fellowman. You cannot pray to God, and mouth obscenities toward another human being.
Or, as that oft sung hymn relates, “Oh what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.” I’d like to make an insert “carry everything WITH LOVE to God in prayer.”
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins” Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
WHAT IS A PRAYER FENCE?
This is a continuation of a series of Lenten thoughts appropriate to the remembering our Christ with all the awe He truly deserves.. Please consider sharing these Lenten thoughts with a host of your friends.
THESE THOUGHTS ARE ADDED TO EACH SUNDAY, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
FOR THE NEXT few postings MY THOUGHTS WILL BE AIMED AT SPEAKING OF AND TRYING TO GIVE SOME SOMETIMES NEW INSIGHTS INTO PRAYER.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
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.
But just how do you build a fence that works? By holy redundancy. Constant repetition, repeating your needs and the needs of the world ad infinitum.
Believing 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.”
An early Greek theologian, Clement of Alexandria, put it this way, “Prayer is keeping company with God.” Let me add a word – keeping CONSTANT company with God.
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins” Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE TOP OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
THESE THOUGHTS ARE ADDED TO EACH SUNDAY, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
FOR THE NEXT few postings MY THOUGHTS WILL BE AIMED AT SPEAKING OF AND TRYING TO GIVE SOME SOMETIMES NEW INSIGHTS INTO PRAYER.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
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.
But just how do you build a fence that works? By holy redundancy. Constant repetition, repeating your needs and the needs of the world ad infinitum.
Believing 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.”
An early Greek theologian, Clement of Alexandria, put it this way, “Prayer is keeping company with God.” Let me add a word – keeping CONSTANT company with God.
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins” Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE TOP OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
OVER ONE AND A HALF BILLION
This is a continuation of a series of Lenten thoughts appropriate to the remembering our Christ with all the awe He truly deserves.. Please consider sharing these Lenten thoughts with a host of your friends.
THESE THOUGHT ARE ADDED TO EACH SUNDAY, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
FOR THE NEXT few postings MY THOUGHTS WILL BE AIMED AT SPEAKING OF AND TRYING TO GIVE SOME SOMETIMES NEW INSIGHTS INTO PRAYER.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
Did you know that there are 1.6 billion plus Christians in the world?
And it all started out with 12 less one.
Judas wasn’t the best of ground for the words of Christ to grow on. That’s an understatement to say the least.
12 less one to 1.6 billion. That’s a pretty good increase.
That’s a lot of seeding and growing and expanding. For all the times the soil was bad and nothing happened there are 1.6 billion Christians alive right at this moment who threw away the thorns, dug up the rocks, tilled the paved path and grew a faith.
Quite something, eh what?
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins” Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE TOP OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and
THESE THOUGHT ARE ADDED TO EACH SUNDAY, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
FOR THE NEXT few postings MY THOUGHTS WILL BE AIMED AT SPEAKING OF AND TRYING TO GIVE SOME SOMETIMES NEW INSIGHTS INTO PRAYER.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
Did you know that there are 1.6 billion plus Christians in the world?
And it all started out with 12 less one.
Judas wasn’t the best of ground for the words of Christ to grow on. That’s an understatement to say the least.
12 less one to 1.6 billion. That’s a pretty good increase.
That’s a lot of seeding and growing and expanding. For all the times the soil was bad and nothing happened there are 1.6 billion Christians alive right at this moment who threw away the thorns, dug up the rocks, tilled the paved path and grew a faith.
Quite something, eh what?
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins” Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE TOP OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
TALK TO THE ONE WHO KNOWS YOU
This is a continuation of a series of Lenten thoughts appropriate to the remembering our Christ with all the awe He truly deserves.. Please consider sharing these Lenten thoughts with a host of your friends.
THESE THOUGHT ARE ADDED TO EACH SUNDAY, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
FOR THE NEXT few postings MY THOUGHTS WILL BE AIMED AT SPEAKING OF AND TRYING TO GIVE SOME SOMETIMES NEW INSIGHTS INTO PRAYER.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
Sheryl Crow is a singer, not a preacher, but when she sings her song “Light In Your Eyes” she nevertheless preaches a sermon. Perhaps you have heard it, even sung it to yourself. Whether yes or no, it goes, “You gotta talk to the One who made you. Talk to the One who understands. Talk to the One who gave you. All the light in your eyes.”
It is no small thing, this sometimes gentle - sometimes agonizing cry from our immortal souls. This ability to be able to talk with God anytime we want is much more than a long distance call, it is a call completely unlimited by either space or time. It has about it the touch of mortality, for we are mortal when we do it. It has about it the touch of immortality for part of knowing God is that communication with Him is now and evermore shall be. It is about that One who does not slam His door in our face for as Sheryl sings in her song, “Talk to the One who understands.”
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or CLICK ON THE URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or CLICK ON THE URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE TOP OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
THESE THOUGHT ARE ADDED TO EACH SUNDAY, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
These thoughts are added to each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday)
(Scroll down to read previous thoughts)
(Use in your personal or church newsletters)
FOR THE NEXT few postings MY THOUGHTS WILL BE AIMED AT SPEAKING OF AND TRYING TO GIVE SOME SOMETIMES NEW INSIGHTS INTO PRAYER.
To view my other blog “One A Day, Your Spiritual Vitamins”
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
Sheryl Crow is a singer, not a preacher, but when she sings her song “Light In Your Eyes” she nevertheless preaches a sermon. Perhaps you have heard it, even sung it to yourself. Whether yes or no, it goes, “You gotta talk to the One who made you. Talk to the One who understands. Talk to the One who gave you. All the light in your eyes.”
It is no small thing, this sometimes gentle - sometimes agonizing cry from our immortal souls. This ability to be able to talk with God anytime we want is much more than a long distance call, it is a call completely unlimited by either space or time. It has about it the touch of mortality, for we are mortal when we do it. It has about it the touch of immortality for part of knowing God is that communication with Him is now and evermore shall be. It is about that One who does not slam His door in our face for as Sheryl sings in her song, “Talk to the One who understands.”
SOME RECENT POSTINGS ON MY OTHER BLOG “ONE A DAY YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS”…To view them go to “Google Search” type in “Neil Spiritual Vitamins”
Or CLICK ON THE URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/
BE A WARMER! (FEB 5)
A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
WHOEVER SAID FUSSING AND FUMING WAS BEST? (Jan 8)
HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)
And, yes, if this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or CLICK ON THE URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TO RIGHT SIDE TOP OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
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