the purpose of proclaiming the gospel through publishing Moreover, there were no qualms whatsoever about the practice in the minds of many ministers in the Church of England and the Church of Scotland and in the churches of France and Holland. A quarter-century has brought great changes to the preaching landscape, and today's list of contributing editors includes names that would have been unknown to most pastors 25 years ago: Rick Warren, Bryan Chapell, James MacDonald, Robert Smith, Dave Stone, James Emery White and Ed Young Jr. (though his pastor dad would have been a good . The General Motors advertising executive took up cigar smoking two decades ago after a memorable dinner at New York City's "21.". 77 NAT SHERMAN
An occasional cigar smoker, Fields used cigars as props in many of his movies to make him "look boorish," according to biographer James Curtis. This Montecristo No. His "Seinfeld" smoking misadventures include trading in Cubans (the people, not the cigar) and burning down a cabin with a discarded stogie. Depression of spirit is no index of declining grace; the very loss of joy and the absence of assurance may be accompanied by the greatest advancement in the spiritual life.8 We should therefore not be too easily dismayed by our troubles: in a failing world, friends will fail us, we will hurt, and we will feel our frailty and emptiness. William Eugene Scott (August 14, 1929 - February 21, 2005) was an American minister and teacher who served for almost 50 years as a pastor and broadcaster in Los Angeles, California. The 42nd president is known for chewing cigars on the golf course, but there have been only a few reports of his actually smoking a cigar. Somewhere between Rocky and Rambo lies Stallone the connoisseur. Being a pastor, he was sensitively aware of how to give such theology to people who are in the throes of pain. There is only one way to salvation that is only in Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12). As the story goes, the prime minister requested that a special mask be created that would allow him to smoke while airborne. The same questions could be asked about drinking beer, or wine, or eating pork, orthe list goes on. Since all have sinned and fallen short of Gods standard, every human is in big trouble (Romans 3:23). Favorite cigar: Petit Upmann, 3 FIDEL CASTRO
Despite being admired, Kipling was criticized by many of his peers for his support of British colonialism and racial prejudice. The man for whom the imposing Churchill cigar size is named smoked eight to 10 cigars a day, primarily Cuban brands. Why? He was Charles Spurgeon. Gene Scott, the flamboyant and plain-speaking pastor and television preacher who was as adept at staring down a live television audience to raise money as he was at holding forth with an erudite. Burns, who lived to 100, credited his 10- to 15-cigar-a-day habit over a 70-year span with not only keeping him spry on stage but also with helping him outlive his physician. The legendary star of vaudeville, radio, TV and film resurrected his movie career in the 1970s with starring roles in The Sunshine Boys and Oh, God! It's well known that the first lady bans tobacco smoke from the White House, but does the chief executive light up somewhere else--say, for instance, on a state visit overseas? Now, any complaints Maria might make about her husband's cigar smoking can be parried with a quick reference to her dad. Though our trials may come from the world, the flesh, and the Devil, they are overruled and ordained by God, who treats them as an important part of our new life in Christ.5 For a start, we simply could not be like Christ if we are not treated like him, if we have a life of ease when he had so much pain. The thread is about smoking, I used to smoke, long since quit of course, but I was miraculously delivered by the Lord and have absolutely no desire to smoke now. Holiness is not the way to Jesus; Jesus is the way to holiness. Regardless of their status, everyone on the list shares one trait: the love of a good cigar, 1 WINSTON CHURCHILL
Worshippers at the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, one of the many churches Wigglesworth visited. colin creevey death scene deleted scene nuface cancer warning thyroid how to use parentheses on ba ii plus greyhound bus killer crime scene photos does jesse metcalfe have a kid maggie's car in the high note what tube lines are on strike tomorrow Not surprisingly, Shore couldn't sleep, as the sounds emanating from the Babe's bed were hard to shut out. The bulbous-nosed, nasal-voiced comedic actor started out as a vaudeville juggler, teaching himself the skill with cigar boxes. No, I had nothing to do with it, unless they saw it on my FB page. He's most nettled by acquaintances who cadge rare cigars only to let them go out after four or five puffs. 67 OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN I
2 or a Montecristo No. In a world of blown-dry newsmen anchored to their studio desks, Rather enjoys being out in the field, smoking a cigar. The cigar-loving author is also famous for saying, "A woman is a woman but a good cigar is a smoke.". Having survived a poverty-stricken childhood, Chaplin's sympathies were always with the underdog, famously symbolized in his character, the Tramp. Naturally, the request was fulfilled. A Singing Faith. Craig Gross, 43, with his wife and two kids. 46 JOHN HUSTON
During the Roaring Twenties, Capone had controlled gambling, prostitution and bootlegging rackets. . And, not withstanding what brother Pentecost has said, I intend to smoke a good cigar to the glory of God before I go to bed tonight. Favorite cigar: Hoyo de Monterrey, 9 JACK NICHOLSON
In suffering, then, it is not only the case that we get to draw nearer to Christ, becoming more like him and leaning more fully on him. On the whole, therefore, it is good for a man to bear the yoke; good for a man to breast the billows; good for a man to pass through fire and through water, and so to learn sublime lessons.7 Trouble can strengthen, and trouble can reveal the work that needs to be done in us. 2 on the Bulls' bus. His favorite cigar coup occurred on a flight from Europe after filming The War of the Roses in the late 1980s, when he asked every passenger if they would mind if he smoked his cigar. Twain's penchant for cigars didn't necessarily mean he smoked the best cigars. Hopefully not while they were preaching. He then invited the man and 11 other friends over for dinner, offering each a cigar afterward. The pain, the politics, the opposition, and the overwork (as well as bereavements, like that of his young grandson) all affected him deeply, if in waves. He began smoking at 24, enjoyed an average of 20 cigars a day, and was rarely photographed without his tobacco companion. Favorite cigar: El Producto, 5 MARK TWAIN
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Escape the Nazis in The Great Escape? Although you feel hopeless and helpless, I want to assure you that there is hope and there is help. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any" (1 Corinthians 6:12). The author who penned Of Human Bondage once wrote that the only resolution of his youth he kept was to smoke a cigar following lunch and dinner. Is smoking and being a Christian incompatible? "I smoked them until I was blue in the face," he once lamented. The 1950s teen idol and composer of "My Way" likes his cigars one way, and that's Cuban. Often the camera would catch him in the act, smoke rising past Letterman's face as he wore a "Who, me?" On a road trip, he snuck a woman into the room he was sharing with Ernie Shore, a fellow Red Sox pitcher (who once combined with Ruth to pitch a perfect game against the Washington Senators). At the end of the meal, Faust turned to Busch and asked, "Now, how do we order the best cigars in the house?" Naturally, we are quick to take suffering to mean that God is against us or has somehow weakened in his love and care for us. We don't smoke! (I know of no preachers that chewed tobacco; but I'm sure there were some that did. Stopping in a store that sold expensive gadgets for the Man Who Has Everything, as he described it, Cosby hoped to find some device that would keep his cigar warm. As well as recommending such physical palliatives for the mental sufferer, Spurgeon urged patient carefulness in making any assessment of the situation. 62 ELVIS PRESLEY
Austinis this THE Austin?I havent heard from you in a bit. "This just goes to show that if you want to be classy and manly like these honorable people, smoke ." At 5'11'' and 245 pounds I must say that I was devastated to see the G word brought into the post. One of the best times to smoke a cigar is while he's reading a script, says the former star of "Magnum, P.I." Martin-Lloyd Jones, himself one of the greatest preachers of all time, says that George Whitfield was the greatest preachers that England ever produced. I suggest that the greater question, if we are truly Christians, is not "May I smoke? Is it Gods will that you would quit? If we cannot smoke to the glory of God and fully yield ourselves to Him, then the question is settled. And when he couldnt make it that far, he found a simple walk in the countryside would help. The fact remains that moderation in all things is a Godly attribute. The change helped relax him, and eventually Nicholson got down to a 12 handicap. It is not Biblically wrong to smoke, it has just been passed down for some time now by Christians that it is evil. During their honeymoon in Paris, Ruth went shopping for an evening bag, trying larger and larger sizes until she found one that could fit four of Miltie's mammoth Cubans. The Montecristo No. For instance, though John Wesley totally opposed the drinking of tea, hence the term tee-totaler, he was something of an authority on the taste of ale. Here! Starting out with Macanudos, Ashtons and Fonsecas, Limbaugh soon gravitated toward Havanas. Other famous Christians who smoked or still do are J.R.R. Another great preacher of Londonthe Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeonsmoked cigars quite often. In 1874, Dr. George F. Pentecost, a Baptist pastor from America, visited the Tabernacle, and Spurgeon had him sit on the platform for the evening service. Again, we do not believe this argument holds any weight. Jack has written 1284 articles on What Christians Want To Know! Some of his fondest memories are of his father smoking White Owls during his childhood in New Jersey. "If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to," Burns quipped at age 98, "I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral." A member of the smoking Rat Pack, Davis entertained audiences with his singing, dancing, acting and impressions. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. 51 JOHN WAYNE
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Most men would be thrilled if their wives relished the smoke wafting from their cigars. As mayor of New York, Giuliani has focused on quality of life issues and watched crime rates plunge. The Four Most Important Things We Could Ever Tell An on-again, off-again smoker, Letterman has brought cigar notoriety to late-night television. Jonathan you are spot on. When the cigar lasted only 20 minutes, Groucho demanded a replacement. In an 1890 sermon titled The Tenderness of Jesus, for example, he spoke, while feeling his own weakness, about Christ as the High Priest who feels for us in our infirmities. What are you going to say?". Everyone shortly excused themselves, and the next morning Twain found the cigars sprawled outside--except for the one left on the plate of the man from whom the cigars had been filched. 47 ADOLPHUS BUSCH
The top-selling author of legal thrillers such as The Firm enjoys smoking four cigars a week. Most members of the Christian clergy and many lay people have been a preacher to the unconverted. 63 MILTON HERSHEY
The thread is about smoking, I used to smoke, long since quit of course, but I was miraculously delivered by the Lord and have absolutely no desire to smoke now. I have now and then entertained the idea of taking up pipe smoking in my later years, and when I do I always think of Spurgeon and his cigars. 78 PAUL VOLCKER
Do you expect to be crowned with gold where he was crowned with thorns? Michael Reeves (PhD, Kings College, London) is president and professor of theology at Union School of Theology in Bridgend and Oxford, United Kingdom. Still if my fellow posters could go a little easier on those of us who are not exactly skinny I would deeply appreciated it. Spurgeon's ministry was marked by his constant looking to Christ for his salvation. Read them in the archive below. And all this was in the public eye and was jumped on by his many critics, not making it easier to bear. I was browsing through the church library Sunday morning and my daughter wandered in wanting to know what I was looking for. However, he did not preach a subsequent Baptism of the Holy Spirit and I believe the Bible does. He often stated that he couldn't work without cigars and that "smoking was one of the greatest pleasures in life." In such times Christ draws near to us to walk with his people in the furnace. While serving as Fidel Castro's right-hand man during the Cuban revolution, he allowed himself two indulgences: books and cigars. It enabled him to deliver a striking and most unusual lecture to his students titled The Ministers Fainting Fits, in which he said: Knowing by most painful experience what deep depression of spirit means, being visited therewith at seasons by no means few or far between, I thought it might be consolatory to some of my brethren if I gave my thoughts thereon, that younger men might not fancy that some strange thing had happened to them when they became for a season possessed by melancholy; and that sadder men might know that one upon whom the sun has shone right joyously did not always walk in the light.3, Before seeking relief from such melancholy, Spurgeon sought to understand Gods purposes in these things that he might actually profit from the experience. 2s on the golf course. Favorite cigar: Cohiba Corona Especial, 4 GEORGE BURNS
Once, as he would later relate in his essay "Concerning Tobacco," he pilfered a handful of costly and elegant cigars from a friend's house, removed the labels, and placed the smokes in a box identified by his favorite brand. Enthusiastic smokers can also be found in the ranks of conservative evangelicals. It does not come from human beings or human opinions. Off the field, the Babe loved the good life: food, drink, women--and cigars. Does he or doesn't he? Myths About the Bible: Was the Eye of the Needle a Gate? Will a Christian who has been born again be lost if they dont stop smoking? . IBM's smoking chairman initiated a partnership with 21 states and school districts in which students benefited from the firm's technology and technical assistance. Thomas served as an assistant district attorney in Missouri, went into private practice for Monsanto, and later chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Part of MBNA's success is due to Lerner's introduction of affinity credit cards, which benefit the group issuing them. We must assume that if ever in his lifetime Spurgeon was embarrassed it was now! Instead, the move backfired, as a fired-up Celtics squad blew the Royals off the court. know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 43 H. L. MENCKEN
First of all, the Bible does not directly condemn smoking or using tobacco. In these two practices we see that Spurgeon was very human a man of his times. 82 PAUL ANKA
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Welles was a lover of the good life, especially fine cigars; he intentionally wrote cigar-smoking characters, such as Touch of Evil's police captain Hank Quinlan, into his films. The next day, Shore noticed four or five cigar butts next to a sleeping Ruth. I was looking for biographies. But in the 1930 film Little Caesar, Robinson not only launched his 50-year film career, but also set the stereotype of the American gangster forever in the minds of the moviegoing public. Smoke cigars? 55 GEORGE HAMILTON
Like what you just read? All I can say is this, there is only one Holy Spirit and his main function is to sanctify and bring believers into a deeper holiness. (As someone once said, you can smoke and still go to heaven . A standout pitcher for the Boston Red Sox before being traded to the New York Yankees, Ruth was the greatest slugger of his time, and perhaps of all time. . In his letter Spurgeon explains . Lewis, Chuck Colson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Billy Graham, and Jerry Farwell (although the last two quit in their latter years). After being turned on to cigars by Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor-director-producer moved over the years from Cuban Cohibas to Partagas Serie D No. Humans are unable to save themselves. 54 GEORGE S. PATTON
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