... Black people aren't supposed to be lawyers, Maddox said. Rather than lashing out or turning bitter, this kind of attitude inspired Vernon Jordan to work harder to reach his goals. (5) The reason things will work out fine, says St. Paul, is because all of ... for Preachers, Teachers, & Writers. Craig Brian Larson, ed. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1996), p. 216. 5. "Great Expectations" by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. with Annette Gordon-Reed, Reader's Digest, Jan. 2002, pp. 91-95. 6. Luci Shaw, Stories for the ...
... Some letters had been short, some long. Some had borne news from home while others had very little about the family. But always at the end of each letter after her signature, his mother had written, "Remember son, if you trust God, He will take care of you." Vernon Jordan said that out there in the darkness while he lay in his blood his mother's words came back to him, "Remember, son, if you trust God, He will take care of you." Later, when his mother came from Atlanta to Ft. Wayne and stood at his bedside ...
... your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves.” That’s interesting, don’t you think? “Make up your mind not to worry beforehand . . .” Vernon Jordan is a lawyer, civil rights activist and former national director of the Urban League. In May 1980, a man named Joseph Paul Franklin tried to assassinate Jordan. Afterward, from his hospital bed, Jordan told his pastor, Gardner Taylor, that he had a vision that he had died in the shooting, and all his life had passed before his eyes ...
... whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River . . .” What was John’s message? “Repent and be baptized.” Pastor Bill Hybels tells of a conversation he had with a young ... in A Foxfire Christmas, Eliot Wigginton, et. al. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Univ of North Carolina Press, 1989). 7. Vernon Howard, Inspire Yourself (Grants Pass, OR: Four Star Books, Inc., 1975). 8. “The Speaker’s Digest,” Quote, April 1995 ...
