Rick Ezell tells this story:
“A university professor tells of being invited to speak at a military base in December and their meeting an unforgettable soldier named Ralph. Ralph had been sent to meet him at the airport; and after they had introduced themselves, they headed toward the baggage claim. As they walked down the concourse, Ralph kept disappearing — once to help an older woman whose suitcase had fallen open, once to lift two toddlers up to where they could see Santa Claus, and again to give directions to someone who was lost. Each time he came back with a big smile on his face.”‘Where did you learn to do that?’ The professor asked. ”‘Do what?’ Ralph said.”‘To be so helpful and considerate to others.’”‘Oh,’ Ralph said, ‘during the war, I guess.’”Then he told the professor about his tour of duty in Vietnam, about how it was his job to clear minefields, and how he watched his friends blow up before his eyes, one after another. ‘I learned to live between steps,’ he said. ‘I never knew whether the next one would be my last, so I learned to get everything I could out of the moment between when I picked up my foot and when I put it down again. Every step I took was a whole new world, and I guess I’ve just been that way ever since.’”A grace-filled life is living between the steps. It understands the remarkable gift of today.”
This morning in our local newspaper I read perhaps the most fascinating obituary I have ever come across – see what you think…
Gale Miller
Gale Miller, of Stumptown, W.Va., passed from this life on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, at his residence, after an extended illness.
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One of the great names in the history of religious music is John Wesley. He, along with nearly all Protestants of his time, fully believed the music God wanted in worship was vocal only. He often taught on the importance of Christian singing, and the following is from his own writing – some instructions of [...]
Another excerpt from John Price’s excellent work Old Light on New Worship. This is from chapter 5, entitled The True Glory of Gospel Worship…
“The eyes of men have never seen a more glorious worship than that of Solomon’s Temple: all the splendour of the Temple and its surrounding buildings; the interior made of the most [...]
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“Manufacturer Recall”
Regardless of make or year, all units known as “human beings” are being recalled by the Manufacturer. This is due to a malfunction in the original prototype unit code named “Adam” and “Eve” AND in all subsequent units. This defect is technically termed “Serious Internal Non-morality,” but more commonly known as “SIN.”
Some of the [...]
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