Ancient Ways for Modern Days

Ancient Ways for Modern Days

Where do you turn for advice and wisdom?

I call some great friends and listen to some awesome podcasts. Naturally, my #1 goto person is my awesome wife. Of course, there’s always The View, Oprah or Talk Radio.

And people say alot of things to help. But my frame of reference for all I hear, read and seek out is found in the ancient ways of the man Jesus.

His ways are anti-establishment, cross-cultural and timeless.

His teachings build on love, mercy and justice for all.

His life was sacrifice, healing and inspiration.

His power is undeniable, inexhaustible and available.

Ancient ways for modern days. I’m not consistent with its application. But I’m committed to following – and learning. That’s really why I write. I’m just passing on what I’m learning from this Man.

Somebody I haven’t seen in a while saw me today and screamed, “Oh my God!!!”

I said, “Well, thanks for the compliment but I’m not quite there yet. Tryin’ though.”

I’d like to be like Jesus even in a small way. That’s a good goal, don’t you think?

 

“Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.

He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born.

He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself…

While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed up on a cross between two thieves.

While He was dying His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth – His coat. When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.

Nineteen long centuries have come and gone, and today He is still a centerpiece of the human race and leader of history’s column of progress.

I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that were ever built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.”

These paragraphs are quoted often and were adapted from a sermon by Dr James Allan Francis in “The Real Jesus and Other Sermons” © 1926 by the Judson Press of Philadelphia (pp 123-124 titled “Arise Sir Knight!”).
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