by Robert F. Turner (STUFF ABOUT THINGS, 1976) Has anyone seen a plain, old-fashioned sinner lately? They are getting mighty hard to find. If the prodigal son were living today (as if he were not), he wouldn’t be a sinner. A juvenile delinquent perhaps, but his parents would be to blame for that. “There areContinue reading “Where Are the Sinners?”
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What Faith Is All About
By Robert F. Turner (Plain Talk, June 1981) Some years back I received word that a dear friend and brother in the Lord was dying with cancer. I wrote a letter to him, which said in part: “They say you are going to die—like the rest of us. What have “they” ever known about anything?Continue reading “What Faith Is All About”
Excuses
by Robert F. Turner (excerpt from Stuff about Things, 1976, p. 56) I like that Mark Twain story about not loaning his axe because he had to use it to eat his soup—or something like that. He said if he didn’t want to do a thing, one excuse was as good as another. Reminds meContinue reading “Excuses”
Peter Hurt My Feelings
By Robert S. TurnerNovember 1966, available via Plain Talk, at http://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org When Peter first came to Antioch, he came to eat with me—or people like me. He visited in my home, and treated me as his equal. We were both children of God, and he treated me like a brother—which I was. Then some “bigContinue reading “Peter Hurt My Feelings”
Little Things in Life
By Robert S. Turner It is the little things that get under one’s skin that really trouble us in this life. Like “little foxes that spoil the vineyards” (Song 2:15), the effect is out of proportion to the initial cause. When we react in an exaggerated manner, our response cultivates the soil, waters and fertilizesContinue reading “Little Things in Life”