Rely on yourself –
you’ll fail now and later.
Rely on God everyday –
eternity couldn’t be better. – eab, 2/4/09
Archive for February 4th, 2009
Rely
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Brother Webb
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Sometime last month you had a birthday;
The exact date, I’m sorry, I forgot.
You turned eighty-five, 85, I say.
Eighty-five years Brother, is a lot.
Four score and five is almost enough
To be antique. (Don’t be offended,
Antiques, you know, I love in the rough,
So stick with me till I’m ended.)
You’ve lived to see the horse-less carriage,
Turn from touring car to streamline.
And conversely the steam, steel-horse rage,
Once strong, you’ve seen fully decline.
The airplane you saw at its outset,[1]
Not dreaming that soon, oh so soon,
The bi-plane would give way to the jet,
And you’d live to see men on the moon.
As I’d mention a “great,” you’d known him:
Rees,[2] Fleming,[3] Culp,[4] Uncle Bud,[5] and Ruth,[6]
Anderson,[7] Stalker,[8] and Wireman.[9]
You’ve been privileged to hear preach the truth.
You have lived and known such a spectrum,
Of the past, and ones who have gone on.
You’re the one for me, who connects them,
A living, Godly historian.[10]
So I’m glad to have had you Brother,
As pastor, advisor, and friend.
With wishes for many another,
These (late) birthday greetings I send. – eab, 2/75
[1] He saw one of the Wright Brothers fly.
[2] J D Webb Sr. was ordained by Seth C Rees, ate with Uncle Buddy, told about Stalker’s previous affliction, and had Wireman as evangelist when Webb pastored the Pilgrim Holiness church in Bremen, Ohio.
[3] John and Bona Fleming were brothers.
[4] George B Culp
[5] At Webb’s sister’s house he ate breakfast with Uncle Buddy (Rueben Robinson)
[6] C W (Christian Wismer) Ruth
[7] T M (Tony) Anderson
[8] Charlie Stalker
[9] I had privilege of hearing “Bulldog” Charlie Wireman.
[10] His first car was a 1914 Cadillac which he owned in 1916.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer – birth, Feb. 4, 1906
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship, (NY: Macmillan, 1963), 45.
Discipleship without Jesus Christ is a way of our own choosing. It may be the ideal way. It may even lead to martyrdom but it is devoid of all promise. Jesus will certainly reject it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship, (NY: Macmillan, 1963), 64.
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cost of Discipleship, (NY: Macmillan, 1963), 69.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born this date (2/4/1906) in Breslau, Poland. He was a Lutheran minister who readily saw through the wrongness of the churches backing Hitler. Bonhoeffer was hung for allegedly plotting to “take out” Hitler. His Cost of Discipleship is very good reading.
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