Helmut Thielicke wrote in his book, How the World Began:
When Jesus loved a guilt-laden person and helped him, he saw in him an erring child of God. He saw in him a human being whom his Father loved and grieved over because he was going wrong. He saw him as God originally designed and meant [...]
Jim Winkler is the secretary of our denomination’s General Board of Church and Society. Here’s how he understands our role in the global war against poverty:
We have worked and will continue to work to help the U.S. Congress understand that the federal budget is a moral document. It is a reflection of what and whom [...]
God does not have hands, we do. Our hands are God’s. It is up to us what God will see and hear, up to us, what God will do. Humanity is the organ of consciousness of the universe … Without our eyes the Holy One of Being would be blind.
- Lawrence Kushner
In Will Campbell’s book, Brother to a Dragonfly, he tells the story of his awakening to grace. When asked to condense the Christian message to 10 words or less, Will responded, “We’re all bastards, but God loves us anyway.” Later, on the darkest day of Campbell’s life, an Alabama deputy sheriff gunned down Will’s young [...]
According to Victor Herbert:
“He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must cross himself.”
THE MEDICAL PARK IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE HIRING OF DR. DAVID CASH AS NEW PHYSICIA
A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending services
regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the preacher decided to visit
him.
It was a chilly evening. The preacher found the man at home alone, sitting
before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his preacher’s visit, the man
welcomed him, led him to a comfortable chair [...]
From an old Erma Bombeck column:
In church the other Sunday, I was intent on a small child who was truning around smiling at everyone. He wasn’t gurgling, spitting, humming, kicking, tearing the hymnals, or rummaging through his mother’s handbag. He was just smiling. Finally, his mother jerked him about and in a stage whisper that [...]
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