... came to an untimely end. (1) Yes, be "Quick to listen" (hearing from God). "Be slow to speak" (unless we are speaking for God informed by his word). James was saying to the church--You can win more people to Christ with your ears than with your mouth. Now the phrase, "Slow to anger." There is a scene I have never forgotten in the movie Forrest Gump. Forrest and Jenny came upon the house in which Jenny had been raised. The house is falling down. It holds many broken promises and painful memories for her. She ...
... Grow (Nashville: the Upper Room, 1983). 3. Carol Tavris, The Misunderstood Emotion (New York: A Touchstone Book, 1982). 4. C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (New York: Macmillan, 1946). 5. James I. Fehl, Editor, Standard Lesson Commentary, 1982 83 (Cincinnati: Standard Publishing Company, 1982). 6. Forrest Gump, Robert Zemeckis, dir., cited in Raymond McHenry, Something to Think About (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1998). 7. Dr. John Vertefeuille, http://www.cedarpark.org/thechapel/services/2010 ...
... this gun for him or I will come over and steal him.” That day they cut a deal. Penny Baxter had done Lemm Forrester in with a slick tongue. Later, Penny’s conscience got to bothering him. “My words were straight said,” reasoned Penny, “but my intentions were ... do what needs to be done. On the night in which Jesus was betrayed, he gathered his disciples in an upper room. James and John were jockeying for position. Judas was cashing in while Peter was boasting, as usual. In the rush to get everything ...
... I cannot think of another act of human kindness in my lifetime which can compare with his.” (4) Bartimaeus would have known how young James felt. His world was totally dark when Jesus gave him the gift of sight. This is why he became a follower of Jesus. Listen to ... we are as wise as he. May we, too, follow Jesus all the days of our life as well. 1. Jon Forrest, https://www.fccclovis.com/blog/blindness. 2. https://www.history.com/topics/brooklyn-bridge. 3. Stawicki, Michal; Ingraham, Jeannie. 99 Perseverance ...
... ?" He answered, "Someone with time." The road from Bethlehem reveals the sliver of the divine that is in all of us. Dr. F. Forrester Church, a Unitarian minister, said that "we can't see the divine in ourselves easily, so we have to recognize it in others ... . The story happens through flesh and blood -- God incarnate -- your Christ comes! All this happens from taking a different road home. James Taylor wrote a popular and intriguing song about the Magi. The song is titled "Home By Another Way." In part it ...
