... to command. Not to be left hanging by himself, his colleague, a Ms. Joann Byrd, wrote a column in which she tried to explain Weisskopf’s faux pas. Byrd said readers needed to understand that most journalists don’t know any of “these ... obeyed, no spiritual wars to wage. As a result, this young man dismissed this god as being irrelevant. I thought about years ago when Robert Murray M’Cheyne, the sainted pastor from Dundee who died so young, preached these words to his flock there: Some of you have truly ...
... harsh reality that it is never easy for two people to cohabit the same space. One of the men on the first expedition of Admiral Byrd to the South Pole told of the difficult circumstances of having a dozen men living together in exceedingly close quarters for the winter's night ... Christlikenessthose are the keys. 1. Leslie Parrott, EASY TO LIVE WITH, cited in Robert Schuller, POWER IDEAS FOR A HAPPY FAMILY (Charlotte, N.C.: Commission Press, 1972). 2. Bennett Cerf, STORIES TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD (New York: ...
... Book of Ecclesiastes is the famous line, "For every time there is a season." Pete Seeger took that and made a song out of it. The Byrds, some of you will remember, made a record of it. It was so popular, it was sung in church youth camps back in those days. The ... newspapers, which I assume people consult today out of curiosity, or innocent amusement. Though the other day I read that Robert Citron, the Controller of Orange County, who got into trouble investing pension funds in high risk instruments and lost ...
When Death Comes Too Soon How can you summarize the life of Curtis Ryan? The words of the obituary convey nothing of the real personality that was shown through his life. They list some brief facts, but they are too fragmentary to express the full impact of his life upon yours. All of us realize that life is a gift of God and we somehow vaguely realize that death is a part of living. James, the Apostle, said: "For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away ...
