President Theodore Roosevelt used to have a pet dog that was always getting into fights and being beaten by other dogs. A reporter once asked the president about that. The reporter stated, ‘Your dog is not much of a fighter, is he, Mr President?’ Roosevelt replied, ‘That is not true. He is a wonderful fighter! He is just a poor judge of dogs.’
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The worship offered to God in most churches on Sunday needs updating. It needs to become more contemporary, but not in the way most people think. When I talk about the need for more contemporary worship in our churches, I am not thinking in terms of bands versus orchestras, or worship teams versus choir, or even throwing out the hymnal. The update has to do with who we worship, not how we worship.
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There are times in life when things can get so bad that running away seems like the best and only solution. That is why each and every day people quit their jobs, file for divorce, leave the ministry, or drop out of school. They have run out of steam and so they run. They envy the very birds that are flying overhead and wish that they too could migrate to another warmer and sunnier place.
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Phillips Brooks, the former New England clergyman, was known for his calm, cool demeanor. So you can guess the surprise of his associates when they found him pacing up and down the floor of his study like a lion in a cage. One of the friends asked, ‘What is the trouble, Dr Brooks?’ He abruptly responded, ‘The trouble is that I am in a hurry, but God isn’t.’
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