4 results for tag: Service

“Please Sir, I want some more” by Stuart Segall

In the movie “Oliver” young Oliver does the unthinkable and walks up to the master in the house and asks for more soup!  After a harmony of gasps, the next words out of the mouths of all the adults are “What?” Anyone watching the movie would have to have a heart of stone to side with the “adults” questioning the young boys' request. The scene compels the viewer to a heart of compassion for Oliver.  Even though it is a movie, you feel like jumping onto the screen and quickly giving him another bowl of soup. This writer loves this scene in Oliver for it reminds me of myself. I know within me a child still resides.  ...

July 2024

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The Kingdom of Service – by Greg Albrecht

by Greg Albrecht Also a dispute arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. You are those who have stood by me in my trials. And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so ...

The Kingdom of Service

  By Greg Albrecht— Also a dispute arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. You are those who have stood by me in my trials. And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one ...