... to maintain their own dignity. And gentleness brings out the best in others. B. Let me tell you about a young friend of mine. Ron and Amy Martini went to school with him. His name is John Moon. John is about 6' 6" a big old boy. He played football for TCU, I ... 1985 2. The Pastor's Story File (Saratoga Press, P.O. Box 8, Platteville, CO, 80651; 970-785-2990), Jan 1987 3. Victor Lee, Sports Spectrum; reprinted in Men of Integrity (May/June 2002) 4. The Pastor's Story File (Saratoga Press, P.O. Box 8, Platteville ...
... about us, “He is as loving as his heavenly Father.” “She is as compassionate as her God?” And yet that is exactly how we are to live. Amy Grant sang a song a few years back: “She has her Father’s eyes.” She was talking about our Heavenly Father. (4) Such a transformation would be ... G. Long, http://day1.org/3823-the_start_of_the_trail. 4. http://www.aberdeenmethodist.info/Reichsermons/christian_love.pdf. 5. Lee A. Koontz, http://reflectious.com/2011/03/08/ashes-to-ashes-an-ash-wednesday-sermon/. 6 ...
... was ever jailed. The case is still a catalyst in racial relations. Film: Amistad. In this film (1997) based on historical events, Amistad is a ship carrying slaves between Cuba and the United States in 1839. During the crossing, one of the Africans named ... to do good. Film: To Kill a Mockingbird. In this enduring, Academy Award–winning film (1962) based on the novel by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch, the main character (played by Gregory Peck), is a lawyer who chooses to defend a wrongly accused black man in ...
“I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near: A star shall appear from Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel. . .” Numbers 24:17. “I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.” Isaiah 49:6 [1] In the Catacombs of Priscilla you will find one of the oldest paintings of the early church –a depiction of Mother Mary with the Christ child, and beside her, Balaam the gentile prophet, who is pointing to a “star,” the sign of the ...
... main character concludes that his endless hunger for the road is fraught with loneliness and that he wants and desires love and home. Johnny Lee expressed a similar feeling in his 1980 song, “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places,” as his character finally finds a relationship ... Jesus, no hungry ghost can live. But you…will. [1] See Amy Weintraub, “Compassionate Practice: Embracing the Hungry Ghost,” Yoga Chicago, March/April 2008, https://yogachicago.com/2014/03/compassionate-practice-embracing- ...