... put our swords back into their sheaths, even if we are not willing to do so simply because our Lord commanded us to do it. We are supposed to be followers of Jesus. A few years back I read a novel called “the Vicar of Christ” by Walter Murphy. It is the improbable story of a man who is successively, a war hero (Korea), Dean of the Law School (at the University of Michigan,) a Supreme Court Justice, then Chief Justice. This man’s wife dies tragically...and he goes into a monastery to retreat from the ...
... in hearing her tell the story he pictured this man soaring over the peak of that roof like Evel Knievel over the Snake River Canyon. (2) Murphy's Law. We laugh to keep from crying. Our friend Noah wasn't laughing. THE WATERS HAD BEEN RISING AROUND NOAH. He had been cooped up ... saw a star of hope. He prayed. He believed. Six months later he got a job answering mail for Dr. Walter Maier's "Lutheran Hour" radio broadcast. He also wrote rhymes for Christmas cards and helped in the shipping department at ...
... 50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.” And that real clincher, “Murphy was an optimist.” Murphy’s Law is amply illustrated in a joke about a man who was crawling through the desert on his hands ... the firmament showeth His handiwork.” No creation of human hands will ever compare to the majestic creation in which God has placed us. Walter D. Cavett tells about a boy who was taken by his father on a camping trip to the Adirondacks. They hired a guide ...
... Certain "WOW" moments have a way of doing that. There is a true story of a 33-year-old truck driver by the name of Larry Walters who was sitting in his lawn chair in his backyard one day wishing he could fly. For as long as he could remember he had ... He was THAT convinced by what he had witnessed.(3) I wish everyone could have that WOW experience. I am reminded of a "Murphy Brown" episode in which for some reason she asks the staff about their thoughts or feelings about God. There were different responses ...
... election to be Pope and to discover if Declan will accept the election. After much prayer and soul-searching, Walsh accepts the election and takes the name of Pope Francesco I. This highly imaginative and entertaining scenario is told in Walter F. Murphy's novel, The Vicar of Christ. Pope Francesco does not play the pontifical game according to the rules the Vatican prelates have established. He is deeply concerned about the realities of justice and insistent that the Roman Catholic Church reshape itself ...
... the ultimate sacrifice. In 1933 the Morgan family, a group of itinerant revivalists, camped on the town square in Murphy, North Carolina. They hung their wash from the Confederate monument. They were asked to leave, and pleading poverty, requested ... come into our world. 1. N. SCOTT VANCE, "Donald Duck Helps Professor." The Detroit News for Scripps Howard News Service. 2. Walter Anderson, COURAGE IS A THREE-LETTER WORD, (New York: Random House, 1986) 3. James W. Cox, MINISTERS MANUAL, (San Francisco, Harper ...
