Civic responsibility means doing something, not complaining that something ought to be done, as in this story told by William Bennett in The Moral Compass, pages 613-614. ————————– There is a story told of a king who lived long ago in a country across the sea. He was a very wise king, and […]
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By Dorothy Sayers, British writer (1893-1957), Creation or Chaos, 1949, pages 56-57: The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that
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By William Willimon, Pastor, pages 92-93, Abingdon Press, 2002: A woman in my church suffered from periodic bouts of depression. These were described to me as times when she felt “down and depressed.” During such times, she would often call me to come by her house for a visit. I would have conversation
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By Edna Hong, Bright Valley of Love, copyright 1976, Augsburg Publishing House, pages 98-9. In his next (confirmation) class Pastor Wilm picked up the subject of what’s a guy to do with himself when he’s no longer just a boy. “Tell me,” he asked, “what do you think
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From Randy Alcorn’s blog at http://www.epm.org/blog February 21, 2014 Like jackrabbits on a hot tin roof, some of us are never still—always doing, always going. We strive to justify our worth by creating motion. Do the laundry, plant the flowers, wash the floor, attend the meeting, make the phone call, plan the
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Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and author, John Ploughman’s Talks: Plain Advice for Plain People, 1869, Chapter 19 Hard work is the grand secret of success. Nothing but rags and poverty can come of idleness. “Diligence is the mother of good luck,” says poor Richard. Believe in traveling on step by step; don’t expect
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To many people, work is a necessary evil. The goal in life is to put in only enough time to retire and relax. But that attitude and that goal are contrary to a Christian perspective on work. Christians honor the fundamental dignity of workers, for we worship a God who labored to make
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