Things That Endure by J R Miller J.R. Miller, published 1913 http://www.gracegems.org/Miller/BOOKS.htm 1.   Things That Endure 2.   The Cost of Reaching the Best 3.   When Kindness is Unkind 4.   The Interweaving of the Days 5.   Doing, and Not Doubting 6.   No True Work Is Vain 7.   Be a Blessing 8.   Making a Living and Making a Life 9.   Our Lives, Words of God 10.                      Two … Continue reading Things That Endure by J R Miller

          The Prison of W A N T by Max Lucado The passages below are taken from Max Lucado’s book “Traveling Light,” published in 2001 by W. Publishing Group. Come with me to the most populated prison in the world. The facility has more inmates than bunks. More prisoners than plates. More residents than resources. Come … Continue reading The Prison of W A N T by Max Lucado

         The Making of Character by J R Miller J. R. Miller, 1902 http://www.gracegems.org The artist was painting a picture of a dead mother, and was using a photograph as his copy. But to make the face look fresher and younger, he was leaving out the lines and marks of old age and care on the … Continue reading The Making of Character by J R Miller

  Set Our Minds at Ease by St Francis de Sales      The quotations below are from St Francis de Sales (1567-1622), in the book “Set your heart free,” freely adapted into modern English by John Kirvan and published 1997. 1. Patience is not laziness. True patience accepts, not only the great and heavy trials that occasionally … Continue reading Set Our Minds at Ease by St Francis de Sales

Finding the guts to defy the world By Father Roland Rolheiser              www.catholic.org.sg NOBODY goes through life without facing criticism, opposition, misunderstanding, suspicion, and, at some point, having to experience hatred. This is one of the great pains, perhaps the greatest, inside family, church, and community. Eventually we are subject to criticism, our motives and integrity are … Continue reading Finding the guts to defy the world By Father Roland Rolheiser

      Conflicts in Life by Charles R Swindoll The following quotations are from Charles R. Swindoll’s book, “Paul---A Man of Grace and Grit,” published in 2002.             Paul and Barnabas stayed on in Antioch, teaching and preaching the Word of God. But they weren’t alone. There were a number of teachers and preachers at that time in Antioch. After … Continue reading Conflicts in Life by Charles R Swindoll

       Changes in Life by Charles R Swindoll  The following quotations are from Charles R. Swindoll’s book, “Paul---A Man of Grace and Grit,” published in 2002. “Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen who had been brought up … Continue reading Changes in Life by Charles R Swindoll

               While We May by J R Miller J. R. Miller, 1910 http://www.gracegems.org/Miller/SERMONS.htm Mark 14:3-8:While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the … Continue reading While We May by J R Miller