A Best Seller, and more than 1,000 saved.

Blog 3-16-09

Lindsay and Marilyn Terry
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PUBLISHED WORKS
Lindsay

A Best Seller, and more than 1,000 saved.

As I stated in my last blog, one of the great joys of my life has been the writing of the tracts for American Tract Society (ATS), and Good News Publishers (GNP), the two largest tract publishing companies in the world.

After I had written a number of successful tracts, I settled on what I thought to be a great idea for a new tract. It was an old subject that I wanted to present in a new and different manner -- The Cross.

In order to tell the whole story of the cross, I knew I must do a lot of research about crucifixion. Some of things that I learned were surprising. I found that this method of execution started some six hundred years before Christ. It was abolished in the year 337 AD by Emperor Constantine I, out of veneration for Jesus Christ, the most famous victim of crucifixion.

After finishing the tract I submitted it to Good News Publishers, who secured the permission of Thomas Kinkade to use his famous “Sunrise” painting on the front. The Cross has been translated into Spanish -- La Cruz.

A veteran missionary in Mexico told me that he knows, personally, of at least 1,000 people who have accepted Christ as a direct result of the use La Cruz.

A combination of the two translations have sold approximately three million copies. It has for several years been one of the best-selling tracts published by Good News Publishers.

THE PAINTINGS
Marilyn

Patients enjoy them!

In recent times Flagler Hospital, a high-rise health center here in St. Augustine, Florida, has refurbished eight rooms on the eighth floor of their main tower making them uniquely elaborate and attractive with space for both the patients and family members. These suites have been called their “VIP” rooms.

To render the walls more attractive they decided to purchase some original oil paintings that could be enjoyed by people using those rooms. They even placed original, framed art in the bathrooms. Because it is a health center the paintings are of necessity framed in a special manner to allow thorough cleaning in their constant battle to prevent staph infection.

They settled on eight of Marilyn’s paintings for those rooms, some of which you can see in the “Marilyn’s Art” section of our website. Four of the eight paintings they chose are -- The View, Flameboyant, Croton and Surfside Palms.


LIFE’S JOURNEY
Temptation

The person who is no long tempted has long since been laid to rest.
- Jerry McCant

A man who was asked to speak to a group of young men, asked an older man, “What shall I speak on?” His reply, “There is only one subject worth speaking about and that is ‘temptation.” He was simply emphasizing the universality of temptation for us all!

The greatest temptation for most of us, especially young people, is to do what the rest of the gang is doing. All too often it is wrong. Wisdom, for the most part, comes with maturity, and the road to maturity and self-discipline is long and hard and most of us never quite get to the end of it. Apart from God we are as weak as water.

We are out of “Paradise” now, but the “tree of temptation” still stands where it did then, in the midst, where all roads meet, where we must pass it every day. Someone has defined temptation as an influence by which a man receives a momentum in the direction of evil.

The appeal of temptation is to satisfy a legitimate need in a wrong way, or as Dr. Warren Wiersbe put it, “Temptation is an opportunity to solve a problem out of the will of God.”

Sad is the condition of the man, woman, teenager or child who does not realize that apart from the protective power of God in our lives, we are as weak as water.

Scriptures that are helpful with Temptation.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. - Matt. 6:13

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. - Prov. 4:14,15

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. - Romans 6:12,13

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. - James 1:13,14

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. - Eph. 6:11



There are several good protections against temptation,
but the best one of all is cowardice.
- Mark Twain

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you a second chance.
- A. O. Batista

We are never strong enough to risk walking into temptation.
- Unknown