... Creatively", February 5, 1989, p. 4). That tells the story. Many of us spend our lives waiting for the rooster to crow, waiting for the hammer to drop, waiting for the next shoe to fall. We wait and worry, certain that something bad is going to happen. We deplete our ... for credit, but they were needed for the students in order to get a degree. "There were no less than three times when Jan Kemp was ordered by the athletic department to change the grades of an athlete from an "F" to an "Incomplete" for them ...
... Lord holds us gently, like the embrace of a parent. At other times God comes upon us with disarming force, like at a Tennebrae service, when we hear the sound of a hammer driving spikes onto a cross, and we're reminded that God~s love is unshakable. God wrestles for our souls, and that is good news, but not easy news. Jacob had ... , p. C4. 5. Lewis Grizzard, "The Name's The Game," SATURDAY EVENING POST, Jan/Feb. 1993, p.26. * Mark Clark is the pastor of the Pellissippi United Methodist Church, Knoxville, TN.
... couldn't see the point; so he said, "Suppose you were hanging over a precipice, suspended by a chain with ten links. If someone took a hammer and smashed every link, where would you go?" "To the bottom of the canyon, of course," she said. "But if he severed only one link, what ... . Mrs. Alice Morse Earle. THE SABBATH IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND. as quoted in "The Blue Laws of New England," LIBERTY, Jan/Feb. 1963, pp. 18-19. 5. Harry Emerson Fosdick. THE MANHOOD OF THE MASTER. (New York: Association Press, 1958). 6. ...
... who says he has never had a doubt in matters of faith wears a No. 6 hat.” (Quoted in Context by Martin E. Marty, Jan. 15, 1989) Tennyson once wrote: “There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.” But note that he said “ ... the Doubter, but Thomas the Believer. Doubt can lead to faith. Only those who have had their faith shattered by the hammer blows of pain and adversity, by their own personal Calvary, can get to the other side of Calvary and experience resurrection ...
