Various Teachings

By Maxwell R Watson

This book is a collection of teachings I have prepared in order to support, encourage and stimulate Christians. I cover issues: of depression, integrity, inconsistency and determination.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Maxwell R Watson
• Release date: Apr 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311352231

Maxwell R Watson

I am now retired. I spent 20 years as a Pastor and then worked in International Humanitarian Aide work. In 2004 I survived a massive stroke and like to encourage people to not give up in their life circumstances.

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Various Teachings

Or

From pulpit to the pen.

By

Maxwell R Watson

Copyright: 2015 by Maxwell R Watson

ISBN: 9781311352231

Published at smashwords.com

Contents

About the Author

A Poem

A collection of quotes for living life or not.

Integrity

Surviving a Life fighting The Black Dog

Never Give Up

Dealing with Discouragement

Conquering Inconsistency

About the Author

Max Watson has been through many transitions in life. He began work at the age of 13 stacking the shelves of a grocery store (this was before supermarkets). He also delivered Telegrams, sewed and laid carpet; all prior to becoming a tradesman electrician, a trade he hated. He grew sideways and went into technical sales and then into the professional sound industry, where he became a manager; holding a middle management position.

He and Christine married, in 1980, and together they have four, now adult children, two sons-in-law and two grandchildren.

Around the early 1980’s when middle management positions were being phased out.

Seeing no future and with his heart on the things of God, he went to study at the Churches of Christ Theological College in New South Wales, Australia, where he eventually earned a Bachelor of Theology degree. After over ten years of both study and ministry, he went to work under the banner of The Foursquare Gospel Church of Australia as both Pastor and School Chaplin in Mt Druitt (a tough area of Western Sydney.)

Again, there was to be another transition; he resigned after seven years at Mt Druitt, he left pastoral ministry and went to run the humanitarian aid project Operation Christmas Child for Samaritans Purse Australia; it was while he was on an assignment in Cambodia in May 2004, he suffered a massive stroke. Full recovery did not happen, and Max was left with Left-side Hemiplegia; meaning his left side is paralysed. He managed to gain a couple of part-time administration jobs; but has most recently concentrated his knowledge and talents to writing. In order to encourage and teach the church he loves.

His books include:

So You Had a Stroke (a free eBook)

Confronted by Poverty on a 1st Mission Trip

The Collected Short Stories and Verse

Lessons in Life from the Life of Abraham

Life is for Living ( a journey through Ecclesiastes)

Living in Christian Joy( a journey through Philippians)

Another look at Psalm23

The Minor Prophets

Christianity 101

His EBooks are cheap and are in all eBook stores. If you can’t find it the go to Max’s Blog:

www.maxwellrwatson.com

He does not write books or his blog to make money, but to serve humanity and to encourage God’s church.

A Poem

Ministry

For 20 years I slaved

12 hour days, 6 of them a week.

Always out of pocket

Never enough for bills

Let alone a holiday

Always giving, giving & giving

No-one to ever give to me

Under attack, being threatened

Nothing quite seems good enough.

Burned-out & depressed, too much trouble,

Easier to just get rid of me fix the problem

Move along, start again

Repeat, repeat, repeat

Even in humility, waiting on God

Was never quite enough

What was I doing, where was I going,

Where are the converts, where is the money?

Sometimes I think I hate the church

For all the pain I still feel,

For the debt I still carry

For the mistrust and the spite,

I choose to forgive & free them

To be all they can become.

For me, I opt to grow,

Surrender every part

Lean not on me, for I have little;

Trust in Him as I have always done.

Find a new voice and proclaim His love

Grow from pulpit to the pen.

A collection of quotes for living life or not.

"The gods too are fond of a joke." Aristotle

"Never seek to evangelise a warthog" Anonymous African Christian.

Never work for silly people. Dr. John Capper

Never date women with tattoos. Max Watson

If you must do that, please wash your hands first. Max Watson

"Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean they are not out to get you. ." Max Watson

Go away...I'm alright. - H. G. Wells, dying words

"I believe there is something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government." Woody AIsaac Asimov

"People who want to share their religious views with you, almost never want you to share yours with them." Woody Allen

"People who want to share their religious views with you, almost never want you to share yours with them." Dave Barry

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." Richard Francis Burton

"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher who’s every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul." Isaac Asimov

"People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behaviour, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people." Johnny Depp

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers." Khalil Gibran

‘The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.’..Audrey Hepburn

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln

"People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk." Stephen King

"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely." Albert Einstein

"Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?" Charles Lindbergh

"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset." George MacDonald

"There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on." George Clooney

"I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart." Sue Monk Kidd

"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend." Jim Morrison

"Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles." Ayrton Senna

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm." Florence Nightingale

"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion." Blaise Pascal

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. John Archibald Wheeler

"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?" Albert Einstein

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor Hugo

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread