The Gospel in Athletic PhrasesYoung Men's Christian Association Press, 1907 - 101 pages |
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... Christ there is no forgiveness . Not only in baseball , but also in the experience of too many men , comes " Three strikes and out . " Like food for our bodies , the food for our souls may be rejected until the power to receive it ...
... Christ there is no forgiveness . Not only in baseball , but also in the experience of too many men , comes " Three strikes and out . " Like food for our bodies , the food for our souls may be rejected until the power to receive it ...
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... Christ can see right through our intellectual jugglery with words . He who makes of right his wrong and he who makes of wrong his right , Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah . ( Prov . 17 : 15 ; cf. Prov . 24 : 24. ) When ...
... Christ can see right through our intellectual jugglery with words . He who makes of right his wrong and he who makes of wrong his right , Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah . ( Prov . 17 : 15 ; cf. Prov . 24 : 24. ) When ...
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... Christ pleads for the new heart , He urges man to break with him who is the father of lies and swear fidelity to Him who is the God of truth , whose ways are happiness , and whose paths are peace . " Nor dare we speak of David's awful ...
... Christ pleads for the new heart , He urges man to break with him who is the father of lies and swear fidelity to Him who is the God of truth , whose ways are happiness , and whose paths are peace . " Nor dare we speak of David's awful ...
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... Christ puts us , on the devil's level . Individual Coaching : -Is your character a paper - wad ? Then , although you may cover it with tin - foil and put it in a sealed box you cannot make it a league ball . SCORING . This " They're off ...
... Christ puts us , on the devil's level . Individual Coaching : -Is your character a paper - wad ? Then , although you may cover it with tin - foil and put it in a sealed box you cannot make it a league ball . SCORING . This " They're off ...
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... Christ's application to him of His bold universal rule , that every cause of stumbling must be sacri- ficed , compelled him to see himself as in a mir- ror , but he could not persuade himself that to give up his wealth was the " good ...
... Christ's application to him of His bold universal rule , that every cause of stumbling must be sacri- ficed , compelled him to see himself as in a mir- ror , but he could not persuade himself that to give up his wealth was the " good ...
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Acts apostle ATHLETIC PHRASES Baal battle Beatitudes BUCKING THE LINE Canaan Christians cern character Chris Christ Jesus comes conscience consecrated cross death devil disci drifting Edom Elijah enthusiasm evil eyes face failure faith FEET TO GAIN fight follow Gethsemane give goal God's Goliath GOSPEL IN ATHLETIC grace Gulf Stream hands Haran Christians hath heart heaven heed Holy idolatries Individual Coaching Individual Coaching:-Are Israel Jehovah John Judas kingdom Kingdom of God Kings lives look Lord Luke Mark Master Matt motto ness ourselves path Paul Peter Pharisees Phil prayer QUITTERS race Read righteousness SACRIFICE HIT salvation Satan score SCRUB SHINNY shouts sinful sinner soul SPEED TO BURN spirit sprinter stand strength sure SWEEP sword thee thing thou art thought tian tion unto victory watch words worldliness YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY young
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Page 23 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Page 43 - Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Page 16 - O wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 96 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Page 82 - Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Page 32 - And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn The world's poor, routed leavings ? or will they, Who fail'd under the heat of this life's day, Support the fervours of the heavenly morn ? No, no ! the energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun ; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing — only he, His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
Page 29 - No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. God stoops o'er his head, Satan looks up between his feet — both tug — He's left, himself, i' the middle: the soul wakes And grows.
Page 21 - O Lord and Master of us all! Whate'er our name or sign, We own thy sway, we hear thy call, We test our lives by thine.
Page 32 - Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph ? Pray " Lead us into no such temptations. Lord ! " Yea, but, O Thou whose servants are the bold, Lead such temptations by the head and hair, Reluctant dragons, up to who dares fight, That so he may do battle and have praise...
Page 96 - For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to youward.