... Esther goes to the King to beg for the safety of the Jews. On `the third day' Abraham prepares to sacrifice Isaac.' " --(Joan Chittister, In Search of Belief [Liguori, Missouri: Liguori/Triumph, 1999], 135.) Your third day is your "crossover moment in time ... uniform. You're thirty-three years old, you're going to the Hall of Fame, and you're saying okay? You say, "Great, Tommy!" ' Murray, looking at Lasorda like he was a maniac, seemed at a loss for words. Lasorda tried again, `You say it: "I feel great!" ' So ...
... for words entirely. It is Yahweh instead who does all the talking: "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants'; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall ... them that opportunity by his continued presence. More than anything else, Moses stays behind so that his words may be sent ahead. Murray Baumgarten, I think, expresses it best: Moses, the stutterer, allows the Hebrews to become Jews by encouraging them to tell their own ...
... God, who is loving and merciful to all, sends rain on the just and unjust. He waters the garden of the atheist, Madelyn Murray O'Hare, as freely as that of Billy Graham. God's approval cannot be measured by the outer circumstances. It must have ... she would answer, "It was all right, child. God does all things well. And he was with me, even there!" She lived out the truth of the great Isaac Watts hymn she used to love so well and sang; Am I a soldier of the cross? A foll'wer of the Lamb? And shall I fear to ...
... anything," says Paul, "except to love one another." Ah, but that is a tall order. "One another" means Madalyn Murray O’Hair as well as Billy Graham, the hallelujah charismatic along with the social activist, women’s libbers and " ... knew what it meant to deny himself for love. He loved himself enough to offer himself for his brothers, whom he loved even more. As his countryman Isaac Watts had said in verse, he did with his life: But drops of grief can ne’er repay The debt of love I owe: Here, Lord, I ...
... the infant Jesus. And there is no rose garden for most of us. Authentic Christian faith is not to be confused with rose-colored glasses. Dr. Isaac Watts was stricken by a fever that left him an invalid. That did not keep him from writing, "Joy to the World, the Lord Is Come ... to be shared. 1. Jo Carr & Donna Cash, ADVENT, A CALENDAR OF DEVOTIONS, 1982, Abingdon. 2. Dr. Heather Murray Elkins, professor at Drew Theological Seminary. THE 1992 CONVOCATION ON MINISTRY, Split Rock Resort, PA. October, 1992. 3. " ...
