Paul A Fowler

Christian, Husband, Father of three, Son, Sibling of four, Pastor - Christ Church IL

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The difference between good preaching and great preaching is this: editing. When you try to say everything you really are saying nothing. ~ Pastor Romell Williams #bristol23 @simeontrust

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Exegesis is not exposition. Exegesis is what I do in my study. Exposition is what I should do in the pulpit. This is why your sermon is long, boring, and people are asleep. ~Pastor Romell Williams #bristol23 @simeontrust

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Many times we trade in faithfulness to the text for relevance. You should be doing both. ~ Pastor Romell Williams #bristol23 @simeontrust

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If you've not come to this conviction you ought not to be preaching: you are totally and utterly dependent on God. ~ Pastor Mike Bullmore #bristol23 @simeontrust

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“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.”
— Miguel de Unamuno

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@fredshowradio Paulina forget to hit the on air button again? Or maybe I'm the only one working today...

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The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our personalities; and one does not, therefore, cease playing a role simply because one has begun to understand it. James Baldwin.

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And I would blister it all over, from centre to circumference, until it gives signs of a purer and a better life than it is now manifesting to the world." Frederick Douglass American Anti-Slavery Anniversary 1847.

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"But it is asked, “What good will this do?” or “What good has it done?” “Have you not irritated, have you not annoyed your American friends, and the American people rather, than done them good?” I admit that we have irritated them. They deserve to be irritated.

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I am anxious to irritate the American people on this question. As it is in physics, so in morals, there are cases which demand irritation, and counter irritation. The conscience of the American public needs this irritation.

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“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ― Thomas Jefferson.

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There was a very cautious man who never laughed or played. He never risked, he never tried, he never sang or prayed. When one day he passed away his insurance was denied. For since he never really lived they claimed he never died. John Maxwells Developing the Leader within You

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When the true history of the anti-slavery cause shall be written, women will occupy a large space in its pages; for the cause of the slave has been peculiarly woman's cause. ~Frederick Douglass

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No man can be free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling, and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending, and maintaining that liberty. ~Frederick Douglass

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The psalmist does not say the heavens probably proclaim the glory of God, they surely and clearly do. ~Cornelius Van Til

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Living then among such men, who are so confused, so ignorant of what they say, and of evils they have or have not, & why they have them, or how they shall be relieved of them, I think it's worth the trouble for a man to watch constantly "Whether I also am one of them...~Epictetus

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If, then, the things which are independent of the will are neither good nor bad, and all the things which do depend on the will are within our power, and no man can take them from us or give them to us, if we do not choose, where is room left for anxiety? ~Epictetus, Discourses

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...when it is in our power to look after one thing, and attach ourselves to it, we prefer to look after many things and be bound to many things... since, then, we are bound to many things, we are depressed by them and dragged down. Epictetus

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Where there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them. ~Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

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"...justice, alone of the virtues, is thought to be 'another's good', because it is related to our neighbor; for it does what is advantageous to another..." Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.