... SPIRITUAL AND THE PHYSICAL, BETWEEN THINGS OF PRAISE AND THINGS OF POVERTY. Writers can do that sometimes--they can bridge a gulf. Anthony Trollope, the great British novelist, said that he never wrote a story merely to entertain or to describe something. He said ... know it? It's "NO!" isn't it?! That's usually the first word we learn in our childhood. Maybe because we hear it so often! No, Wayne, No! Don't touch! Stay out! Don't do that! No! So we learn to shake our heads, No! early in life. But that's true ...
... thousand years later we are still telling the story. And to think it was all in our behalf. Pastor Anthony Evans tells about a Sunday school teacher in his church who was telling her preschoolers about Jesus’ arrest, trial ... family’s life, but it cost her own. As the train smashed into their car, Alice was too close, and she felt its entire fury. Wayne Rouse writes, “Our Lord and Savior expressed extravagant love for the unlovely, the wretched, the worst of the worst. He saved our lives while giving ...
... his broken leg they let him off. Now was that good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?(1) Luck. Sometime ago, Christian therapist Wayne Oates wrote a book entitled Luck, A Secular Faith,(2) in which he claimed that modern people no longer believe in a ... out into the world, you do not go alone; you go with each other, and your God goes with you. Vaya con Dios. Amen. 1. Anthony de Mello, Sadhana: A Way to God: Christian Exercises in Eastern Form, (St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1979), 134 in Homiletics, J/S, 94 ...
... sister and seeking reconciliation and by going to God and seeking his help in finding release. Nobody shoots someone else because they are insolent to them, do they? Heaven help us, sometimes it does happen. There is a better way. It is the way of reconciliation and Divine love. 1. Anthony Campolo, SEVEN DEADLY SINS, (Wheaton, Illinois: Victor Books, 1987). 2. Wade Burton 3. Dr ...
