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    Under the Gunn: Inspiration for Preachers
    Under the Gunn: Inspiration for Preachers
    Under the Gunn: Inspiration for Preachers
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    Under the Gunn: Inspiration for Preachers

    By John R. Gunn

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    In these chapters, John R. Gunn mentors preachers and seminarians with cogent, biblically-based reflections in which he confronts the realities and stereotypes of ministerial practice and character. . . . His advice, to young and old . . . is a salutary challenge to who we are and what we are to be about. (James L. Waits, president emeritus, The Fund for Theological Education).

    Men and women led to serve God through church leadership will find this book unfailingly insightful and inspiring.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateOct 17, 2012
    ISBN9781449769642
    Under the Gunn: Inspiration for Preachers
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    John R. Gunn

    John R. Gunn’s popular syndicated newspaper columns on inspirational themes appeared for more than fifty years in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. His messages also reached listeners over two thousand radio stations plus the Armed Forces Radio Network through the broadcast “Be Still and Know.” Other of his books recently published include Under the Gunn: Inspiration for Preachers and Be the Best at Who You Are: 75 Life-Shaping Bible Proverbs.

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      The Angel of the World

      And [the Lord] said [unto Moses] … Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

      —Exodus 3:5

      This was when the angel of the LORD appeared unto [Moses] in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. The burning bush was a symbol of the presence of God. Let me take off my shoes from my feet and stand in awe and reverence in this holy presence!

      Those who allow no place for reverence in their lives leave the door open to all sorts of vile and vicious passions. Reverence, which has been called the mother of all virtues, ought to be the undertone of life. Shakespeare calls it the angel of the world. But for the presence of this angel of reverence the world would soon become so hard and coarse and vulgar that it would be an unfit place in which to live.

      God is … to be had in reverence of all them that are about Him (Ps. 89:7). This means that we should be reverential before all the shrines of religion. Indeed, reverence should control our conduct everywhere, for the great universe itself is God’s own cathedral.

      Oliver Wendell Holmes said that there was in his heart a plant called reverence that needed watering about once a week. This, he said, was the reason why he attended divine worship on the Sabbath day.

      The third commandment, Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain, (Ex. 20:7) is a wall God has built around the garden of the heart where reverence grows. Those who break down the wall and trample the garden destroy the most sacred thing in his life.

      Nothing glorifies life like reverence; nothing debases it like irreverence. We are never as great as when we kneel. True greatness begins and ends with reverence. If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high, says Trollope. The glory of life comes not from the things we command but from the things we reverence.

      Andrew Jackson once said, I don’t care how smart, or how highly educated, or how widely experienced a man may be in this world’s affairs, unless he reverences and believes in something beyond his own self, he will fall short somewhere. It was Ruskin who said, To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world. Certainly there is nothing that lifts life into such a noble state as the attitude of reverence toward God and holy things.

      It is a fact confirmed by human experience in all ages that reverence is essential to wholesome life for the individual and society alike. If we would preserve the most sacred things in our lives, if we would keep human society decent and endurable, we must cultivate and keep alive in our hearts the spirit of

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