Post Year: 1983
Florida Today: A Feast Worth Celebrating
Posted onFlorida Today: To Live Again- Easter’s Message is Hope
Posted onObedience in the Wilderness
Posted on — Leave a commentAh, Yes, Our Man Will Bring Down the House (Satire)
Posted on — Leave a commentInterview with Pat Robertson
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Posted on — Leave a commentThere Is Life After Death for Christians
Posted on — Leave a commentWhy Don’t Media Give More Good News?
Posted on — Leave a commentTax Season: ‘Tis the Season for Lying
Posted on — Leave a commentWhatever Controls You Is Your God
Posted on — Leave a commentGod’s Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Posted on — Leave a commentChristians Enrich Our Lives and Community
Posted onAdvancing Years Have Devastating Effects
Posted on — Leave a commentTake My Silver and My Gold (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentWisdom Is Seeing World As God Does (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentDivorce (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentTruth and Fact Aren’t Necessarily the Same (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentNovember (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentBald Is Beautiful (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentLittle Black Lies (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentPlanting a Tree (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentI’m Me! (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentCall to Unity (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentStopping Too Soon (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentTruth (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentIt Must Be Terrible to Grow Old (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentWhat Is My God? (unknown date, 1982-1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentStraightTalk with Jamie
Posted onStraightTalk with Jamie (Ministries magazine – Fall 1983) (Q&A with Jamie) – Q. I’m a pastor who is considering a call to a new church and the finance committee has asked if I will be willing to come for less than I’m being paid in my present position. How should I respond?…
Conducting The Small Meeting
Posted onConducting The Small Meeting (Ministries magazine – Fall 1983) – When you think of a group of Christian leaders seated around a conference table, your mind should conjure up the impression of a great reservoir of spiritual power. Unfortunately, instead of a reservoir what you often find is a swamp. Both contain water, but while the reservoir is pure water, waiting to be channeled, a swamp is stale, defies runoff (much less channeled use), and is a breeding place for unpleasant — even dangerous — things…
Reconciliation (publication unknown, around 1983)
Posted onReconciliation (Publication unknown, around 1983) Jamie discusses the importance of reconciliation with former associates, relatives, and friends, and the difference between that and the restoration of relationships, which may never be possible. He uses his own life, and his church, as an example. “It has been 15 years since the Brevard Baptist Association refused to seat our church at the annual association meeting….”
(12 editions) At the beginning of the year
Posted on(12 editions) At the beginning of the year I felt the Lord was saying it was time to grow…;We are changing. The cloud is moving and God has told us to stay under it…; and more…
Practicing the principle of ‘the greater need’ (January
Posted on — Leave a commentPracticing the principle of ‘the greater need’ (January 1983) – What happens when a person or church — or a national ministry — receives a gift someone else needs more than they do?…
A dad remembers and rejoices (February 1983) –
Posted on — Leave a commentA dad remembers and rejoices (February 1983) – Dear Bonnie: Your call from Tulsa, telling us that you are expecting your first baby, has filled the old home place with joy…
My statements don’t carry as much weight as
Posted on — Leave a commentMy statements don’t carry as much weight as they used to (March 1983) – For years I’ve watched my fat friends lose weight then condemn the rest of us fatties for not being as spiritual as they are…
The death penalty. Is it right? (April 1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentThe death penalty. Is it right? (April 1983) – Last fall a young Spirit-filled couple who lived a few miles from us opened their hearts to a lonely Cuban refugee. One morning when the husband called his bride from work she didn’t answer. Worried, he hurried home. He found her naked body sprawled on the floor. There were 17 stab wounds and she had been sexually tortured before she died. An 11-inch butcher knife protruded from her neck…
The greatest serenade (May 1983) – I’ve missed
Posted on — Leave a commentThe greatest serenade (May 1983) – I’ve missed the song of the whippoorwills in the early morning hours this year. Each year, since we have moved out into the pine trees in the rural section of our little Florida community, the whippoorwills have returned in February. Nocturnal songsters, they have serenaded me with their plaintive calls coming through the tall trees in front of our house, wafting their echoing voices into our upstairs bedroom long before dawn…
Bibles bound in shoe leather (June 1983) –
Posted on — Leave a commentBibles bound in shoe leather (June 1983) – I thought the fighting had died down, but it seems the evangelicals are still shooting at each other over the question of whether the Bible is “inerrant” or merely “inspired.” It seems to me, though, that unless the Word of God is transferred from book to heart, the question of inerrancy is meaningless. It all came to mind this last week when I was cleaning out my bookcase and found an old Bible with the pages half-missing and the cover chewed away by roaches. The sensible thing was to throw it away, but somehow it didn’t seem right to drop a Bible in the trash can…
What If My Floppy Disk Flaps (July 1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentWhat If My Floppy Disk Flaps (July 1983) – An article in The Wall Street Journal begins “Real men don’t ear quiche. Real women don’t pump gas. And real managers don’t use computer terminals.” The writer is saying that managers should manage people who in turn use computers…..
Child rearing: a remembered art (August 1983) –
Posted on — Leave a commentChild rearing: a remembered art (August 1983) – One affliction common among grandparents is the urge to take over. I’ve watched my mother, who is 85, do this to our children. Now, as my own five children grow up, marry and start having children of their own I find myself doing the same thing. In fact, it’s hard to keep from taking over when you know you can do it better — and with my five grandchildren I am no exception…
Good news is news also (September 1983) –
Posted on — Leave a commentGood news is news also (September 1983) – Recently one f America’s leading journalists, George Cornell, ripped into some o his fellow editors at a gathering of the Associated Press managing editors. “Why,” he asked, “do most newspapers carry and entire section of sports events daily, but only one page of religious news weekly?”…
The deception of divorce (October 1983) – I’ve
Posted on — Leave a commentThe deception of divorce (October 1983) – I’ve just hung up the phone after talking to the aged mother of a young minister whose wife had filed for divorce. The old woman was crying. Great convulsive sobs. “But what will become of those two precious grandchildren?”…
I was scared. I didn’t go (November 1983)
Posted on — Leave a commentI was scared. I didn’t go (November 1983) – In March of 1975 I received an impassioned plea from an ad hoc committee of missionaries in South Vietnam. The letter was written and signed by a Christian and Missionary Alliance missionary representing a large number of missionaries from many denominations…
Their roads just stop (December 1983) – Irian
Posted on — Leave a commentTheir roads just stop (December 1983) – Irian Jaya is — quite literally — earth’s uttermost part. Lying six degrees south of the equator in the South Pacific, it makes up the western half of the island of New Guinea. Even the Indonesian travel brochure stuck in the seat pocket of the Garuda Airlines described it as “primitive” with extreme heat in the snake-infested jungles…