... sad - something terrible. They didn’t want to join something that would make them miserable. Jesus was not that way. Joy surrounded him wherever he went. Too many people have virtues without a supporting spirit and, thus, they make solid morality unpopular. Gerald Johnson wrote a biography of Woodrow Wilson. Listen to a few excerpts: "Woodrow Wilson had a way of rubbing people the wrong way ... He had an unusual share of the more distasteful virtues ... He had the unhappy faculty of being right in the ...
... lesson in patience. Do you know where I can take a crash course?" In a certain orchestral number by Joseph Haydn, the flute player is supposed to sit quietly for seventy-four measures and then come in exactly on the upbeat of the seventy-fifth. Gerald Johnson, historian and writer, plays the flute in the Baltimore symphony. He says that a composer who expects a man to wait that patiently and perform that precisely is looking for a rare individual. IT TAKES HUMILITY TO WAIT. When we wait, we admit there are ...
... when a strange man sat down next to him at a soda fountain, introduced himself as his father, and told Gerald his name was really Leslie King, Jr. President Ford sounds very American, but in our democratic society, would we really ... , which seemed to suit the man much better. Names can say things about our ancestry. In some places, like Sweden or Norway, to be named Johnson means that your father was named John. Your child might well have a different last name if your first name is different from your parents ...
Gerald Hill, a Baptist pastor in Powderly, Texas, tells about a friend of his who was serving in a mission church in Alaska. The water was so ... and the late Bear Bryant of Alabama have had this ability of being able to walk on water attributed to them. Various Washington politicians with big egos such as Henry Kissinger and Lyndon Johnson have also been described this way. Where was the President last night? He was out taking a stroll on the Potomac. Gen. George Patton's soldiers were in awe of him. A member ...
... Christian doesn't do. If you don't drink, smoke, use drugs or run around with the wrong crowd, you're probably a Christian! Gerald Kennedy once put it this way: "Too often we tend to define Christianity as a negative thing. A Christian is someone who pays strict ... inches, but those few inches can make all the difference in the world. 1. Executive Speechwriter Newsletter 2. Elliot Johnson and Al Schierbaum, Our Great and Awesome Savior (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1991), p. 29. 3. ...
