Cut It Out

Watch the word “Cut.”

When your engine “Cuts out” that’s trouble.

When preachers “Cut up” (too much) that’s trouble.

When a car “Cuts in” that can be trouble.

When the fig tree is “Cut down” that’s trouble.

When moma’s hair is “Cut off” that’s trouble.              

 -eab, 7/12/10

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THE SPIRIT

It means so little,

When so little meet,

If the Spirit meets them not.

But when two or three

And the Spirit meet,

The meeting means a lot. [1]

                – eab, Jul. ’74

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^[1] Written at my first pastorate in Maryville, TN.

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Beverly Carradine – converted to Christ, July 12, 1874

We love to give to those we love.

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 5.

…We give the name of virtues to our vices and go on self-deceived.                  

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 19.

The church was never sent to entertain men.                                         

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 23.

All men have not the same means to be generous.  But all have the same power to be liberal.     

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 36.

Entertainment opens the floodgates and literally submerges the church in worldliness.

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 59.

Time does not and cannot regenerate.  

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 71.

God wants the church to be a perfect contrast to the world.      

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 78.

The giver gives character to the gift.

– Beverly Carradine, Church Entertainments, original printer/date unknown; reprint, Salem, OH: Allegheny Pub., 1989, 87.

Beverly Carradine was converted to Christ this date, 7/12/187 and became a great Methodist evangelist.

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