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"SOME ARE SENT, SOME JUST WENT!"
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IF MY PEOPLE ...
"Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints" (Ephesians 6:18).
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AUDIO MESSAGE CENTER: NEW TEACHINGS FROM DR. BROWN. |
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LogoRhema Snippets
Thursday, April 30, 2009.
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The Unspoken Sermon.
After a few weeks, the pastor decided to
visit him.
It was a chilly evening. The pastor
found the
man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire.
Guessing the reason for his pastor's
visit,
the man welcomed him, and led him to a
comfortable chair near the fireplace and waited.
The pastor made himself at home but said
nothing. In the grave silence, he
contemplated the dance of the flames around
the burning logs. After some minutes, the
pastor took the fire tongs, and carefully
picked up a brightly burning ember and placed
it to one side of the hearth all alone.
Then he sat back in his chair, still
silent.
The host watched all this in quiet
contemplation. As the separated ember's flame
flickered and diminished, there was a
momentary glow and then its fire was no more.
Soon it was cold and dead.
Not a word had been spoken since the
initial
greeting. The pastor glanced at his watch and
realized it was time to leave. He slowly
stood up, picked up the cold, dead amber and
placed it back in the middle of the fire.
Immediately it began to glow, once
more with
the light and warmth of the burning coals
around it.
As the pastor reached the door to
leave, his
host said with a tear running down his cheek,
"Thank you so much for your visit and
especially for the fiery sermon. I shall be
back in church next Sunday."
Sometimes, the best 'sermons' are the
ones
left unspoken!
"Be not rash with thy mouth,
and let not
thine heart be hasty to utter any thing
before God: for God is in heaven, and thou
upon the earth: therefore let thy words be
few... and a fool's voice is known by
multitude of words." (Ecclesiastes
5:2-3).
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Holy Humor.
The United Way discovered that it had never
received a donation from the city's most
successful lawyer. So a United Way volunteer
paid the lawyer a visit in his lavish office.
The volunteer opened the meeting by saying,
"Our research shows that even though
your annual income is over two million
dollars, you don't give a penny to charity!
Wouldn't you like to give something back to
your community through the United Way?"
The lawyer thinks for a minute and
says, "First, did your research also show you
that my mother is dying after a long, painful
illness and she has huge medical bills that
are far beyond her ability to pay?"
Embarrassed, the United Way rep
mumbles, "Uh... no, I didn't know that."
"Secondly," says the lawyer, "my
brotherm a disabled veteran, is blind and
confined to a wheelchair and is unable to
support his wife and six children."
The stricken United Way rep begins to
stammer an apology, but is cut off again.
"Thirdly, did your research also show
you that my sister's husband died in a
dreadful car accident, leaving her penniless
with a mortgage and three children, one of
whom is disabled and another has learning
disabilities requiring an array of private
tutors?"
The humiliated United Way rep,
completely beaten, says, "I'm so sorry, I had
no idea!"
And the lawyer says, "So... if I
didn't give any money to them, what the heck
makes you think I'd ever give any to you?!!!"
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