Table Of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
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A Dad's Christmas Meditations
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Twenty-Five Hours In A Day
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How To Make A Man Out Of A Boy
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Great Simplicity
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The Means, The End, And The By-Product
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To A Rose After A Funeral
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Hurry Back
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He Made The Stars Also
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Leadership
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The Glory Of Your Presence
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The Unfinished Man
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Here, Hereafter, And Afterwards
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When It's Over
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Ups And Downs
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Home Without A Mother
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The Love Circle
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After His Kind
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I Need You
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The Mistakes Of Job
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Friend Or Slave?
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A Coffin Or A Hope Chest?
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Strength And Beauty
Foreword
Another BLUE DENIM AND LACE. After the author's
famous book, BLUE DENIM AND LACE, was published, readers began asking for more.
That is exactly what is found in STRENGTH AND BEAUTY-- more of BLUE DENIM AND
LACE. To show that every Christian should combine strength and beauty in his
personality, Dr. Hyles uses, among others, the following chapters: "To a Rose
After a Funeral," "Here, Hereafter, and Afterwards," "How to Make a Man Out of a
Boy," "Leadership," "Mistakes of Job," "A Coffin or a Hope Chest"' "I Need You,"
and "The Glory of Your Presence."
Dr. Jack Hyles is the Pastor of the famous First
Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana. During the twelve years of his pastorate
here, he has seen the church grow from a little over 700 in Sunday school to an
average of over 5,000. Now with property valued into the millions of dollars,
the First Baptist Church in Hammond operates a fleet of 108 buses; its own
junior high and high school, with plans to open an elementary school in a few
months; a full-time rescue mission; a nationwide radio broadcast heard on 66
stations; a work with retarded children; a ministry for the deaf; and a special
program for Spanish-speaking people, along with many other ministries.
Dr. Hyles has authored 16 books. Among the best
known of these are THE HYLES CHURCH MANUAL, THE HYLES SUNDAY SCHOOL MANUAL, BLUE
DENIM AND LACE, JACK HYLES' CHURCH BUS HANDBOOK, and LET'S GO SOUL WINNING. He
now presents this new volume hoping that it will enable God's people everywhere
to possess both strength and beauty.
Introduction
Another "BLUE DENIM AND LACE"?
Yes, those who have read my book, BLUE DENIM AND
LACE, will be reminded again and again of its pages as they explore STRENGTH AND
BEAUTY.
In both, I have tried to encourage the beautiful to
be useful, and the useful to be beautiful. It was said of our Lord that He was
full of grace AND truth. The Psalmist admonishes us that strength and beauty can
associate in the same personality, and that honour and majesty should blend. The
Apostle Paul reminds us that zeal and knowledge should accompany each other. It
is sad but true that these pairs are too seldom seen together; yet it is also
true that they may and should be found in all of us.
In my life I have found that when I attain grace,
truth often flees, and when I acquire truth, grace is absent. It seems that
knowledge and zeal are strange bed-fellows, and that strength and beauty refuse
to go steady. Like the children's see-saw, the proper balance is hard to find.
To that end, I give you STRENGTH AND BEAUTY. May
the Holy Spirit use it to help us to acquire zeal AND knowledge, honour AND
majesty, grace AND truth, strength AND beauty, with the proper proportion of
each.
May He use it as another BLUE DENIM AND LACE.
Dr. Jack Hyles
