Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.
01196 – Doing Good
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01178 – Worship: The Church’s Offering to God
Every act of worship should be understood as part of the Church's offering to God. "Any action that does not meet with that qualification does not deserve to be a part of a worship experience." [C. Weldon Gaddy, The Gift of Worship] All the music, from prelude to...
01151 – Let Us Not Waste Time!
Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed,...
01137 – Gladdening Others’ Hearts
Life is short and we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel with us. So be swift to love. Make haste to be kind.
01134 – Post-9/11: We Need God More than Ever
One other picture that will always be a part of my memory of that week is the way people all across the land crowded into their places of worship. ...My fear is that we are beginning to think and act like we are on our own again and we can do it alone. ...We need God...
01132 – Pain Lessens, but is Never Gone
It has been said, "time heals all wounds." I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind (protecting its sanity), covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
00964 – Love Places Us Inescapably in Time
The principle of neighborly love encapsulates the balance between time and eternity which is vital to the practice of true hope. Since love is not, for an ideal human being, living in a state of abstract perfection but rather for someone in particular, someone...
00962 – Love and Time
Love and time—those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent. from Aztec
00930 – Prayer: Spending Time with a Close Friend
I spend time with my closest friends not because of what they can do for me but for the pleasure of their company. How can I do that with God?
00921 – Hymnody Old & New
Hymnody needs to be popular. It is more closely related to folk song than to art song… It is because hymnody is, in its very essence, a kind of folk song that we must never close the door to new hymns written in the idiom of our day… Time has a way of selecting the...