The Gospel in Athletic PhrasesYoung Men's Christian Association Press, 1907 - 101 pages |
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... strong enough and sup- ple enough to do all sorts of athletic stunts , and yet not have the moral power to tear him- self free from the steel - fingered clutch of sin , so his soul is a whipped soul . Every form of evil , big or little ...
... strong enough and sup- ple enough to do all sorts of athletic stunts , and yet not have the moral power to tear him- self free from the steel - fingered clutch of sin , so his soul is a whipped soul . Every form of evil , big or little ...
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... strong athlete . Fit food must be eaten if we would be robust . And the one best food for spiritual strength is the Word of God . A Christian cannot be strong until he learns that the secret of power lies in the daily medita- tion on ...
... strong athlete . Fit food must be eaten if we would be robust . And the one best food for spiritual strength is the Word of God . A Christian cannot be strong until he learns that the secret of power lies in the daily medita- tion on ...
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... swayed , it broke , And fell in darkening thunder at one stroke . The strong shaft , with an angel on the crown . Fell ruining ; a thousand years went down ! FACING . The game of lacrosse is commenced by a 24 TRAINING .
... swayed , it broke , And fell in darkening thunder at one stroke . The strong shaft , with an angel on the crown . Fell ruining ; a thousand years went down ! FACING . The game of lacrosse is commenced by a 24 TRAINING .
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... terpretation of life that was coming into the world , yet He kept sweet and strong His prin- ciples . How did He do it ? Only as we can do it , by sticking to the fundamentals of life and letting go the puny and non - essential .
... terpretation of life that was coming into the world , yet He kept sweet and strong His prin- ciples . How did He do it ? Only as we can do it , by sticking to the fundamentals of life and letting go the puny and non - essential .
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... strong " ( 1 Cor . 16:13 ) is the wise counsel of the experienced Paul . If we are to be Christian young men , carelessness must give way to caution , fickleness to fixed- ness , childishness to character , inability to in- fluence ...
... strong " ( 1 Cor . 16:13 ) is the wise counsel of the experienced Paul . If we are to be Christian young men , carelessness must give way to caution , fickleness to fixed- ness , childishness to character , inability to in- fluence ...
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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
Popular passages
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.