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The Pinecone
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August 2013
f r om Don J oh n s on , K i r b y P i n e s Chap l a i n
Chaplain’s COrner
August 1
Reverend Nate Smith
River Oaks Reformed Presbyterian
August 8
Reverend Joe Jernigan
Bellevue Baptist
August 15
Reverend Dr. Susan Sharpe
Wesleyan Hills United Methodist
August 22
Dave Phillips
Germantown Church of Christ
August 29
Reverend Jeff Findlay
First Evangelical
Augu s t Ve s pe r
Se r v i ce s
brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye: Or how can you say to your
brother, Let me remove the speck out of your eye; and look, a plank is in your own eye?
Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to
remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:1-5)
Let’s move beyond criticism to encouragement of others. We will be surprised at what
this does for them and us. And we may be surprised at the future results that blossom
from their lives and deeds.
Till next time, Don Johnson, Kirby Pines Chaplain
WHEN WE’RE WRONG
Stephen Pile in his book,
Incomplete Book of Failures
,
gives some interesting statements that
were at first accepted but later proven to be very wrong. Consider the following:
“
Far too noisy, my dear Mozart. Far too many notes.”
--
The Emperor Ferdinand, after the first performance of The Marriage of Figaro.
“
If Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon fall into disuse.”
--
Philip Hale, Boston music critic, 1817.
“
You will never amount to very much.”
--
A Munich schoolmaster to Albert Einstein, aged 10.
“
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant… utterly impossible.”
--
Simon Newcomb (1835-1909)
“
Rembrandt is not to be compared in the painting of character with our extraordinarily gifted English artist Mr. Rippingille.”
--
John Hunt (1775-1848).
“
We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out.”
--
Decca Recording Company when turning down the Beatles in 1962.
The trend of those days long ago continues to be expressed in our current time. We are too prone to wrongly evaluate others. How
easy it is to misjudge! Thinking ourselves to be the ultimate evaluator of all that is important and lasting, we label others and their
actions and accomplishments with a diminished critique that will finally be seen for what it is and rejected by facts and the future.
From the famous Sermon On The Mount, Jesus states, “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you
will be judged; and with the same measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your
