The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
04211 – Battles Inside Ourselves
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04196 – Never Too Late
One of the curses of historyis that we cannot go back and change the course leadingto disasters, no matter how much we might wish to.The past has its own terrible inevitability.But it is never too late to change the future.
03778 – Most Meaningful to Us
What we had done was to seek out, in our chosen home community, those things that were the most meaningful to us. We realized that it is all too easy to ignore the natural beauty and simple pleasure right around us and to complain instead about dull surroundings or...
01977 – Love will Return in Another Way
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet...
01591 – Scapegoating is Human Nature
Human nature, when it is seeking power, wants either to play the victim or to create victims of others. In fact, the second follows from the first. Once we start feeling sorry for ourselves, we will soon find someone else to blame, accuse or attack—and with impunity!...
00243 – Separation of Church & State
True, separation of church and state does not define Baptist theology, but it is a logical, inextricable, inevitable corollary of religious liberty as we know it. It is the plug which, if pulled out of our machine, the motor dies. We go no more.