{"id":2669,"date":"2022-06-23T18:09:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2022-06-23T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:09:18","slug":"blog-june-23rd-god-given-ideas-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"Blog June 23rd \u201cGod Given Ideas\u201d \u2013 Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, one more \u201cGod Given Ideas\u201d from UCBs \u201cThe Word For Today\u201d written by Bob and Debbie Gass.
\nIn What the World Owes to Christians, Dr Victor Pierce, an Oxford scholar, shares the story of the typewriter. \u2018The typewriter was a forerunner to the modern word processor. But how did a Christian come to invent it? To write sermons. Seriously!
\nChristopher Sholes was concerned about his pastor who\u2019d been busy all week visiting victims of an epidemic, comforting the bereaved and conducting funerals. Consequently, he had no time to write his Sunday sermons. One day Sholes, discussing with a friend what could be done, said, \u201cIt seems a pity there ain\u2019t some quick method of writing for busy folks like parsons.\u201d His friend replied, \u201cWhy not invent a machine?\u201d Sholes responded, \u201cI\u2019ll try.\u201d That rainy afternoon was the beginning of months of hard work. Finally a group assembled one day to see him tap out on paper, in capital letters, C LATHAM SHOLES, NOV 1867.
\nSix years later the Remingtons recognised the typewriter as something that could revolutionise business. In those days clerks were mostly men, but the Young Women\u2019s Christian Association started offering courses in typing for women. Initially it created a scandal, but as the first typists to be trained were women, employers rushed to hire them. Hence the typewriter and the YWCA determined that a woman\u2019s place was not only at home, but could also be in the office.\u2019 Is it okay for me to pray for God to bless my business? Yes! God wants to bless your business so that you can help carry out His, which is the business of reaching the world with the gospel.<\/p>\n

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I Will Tell featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album ” I Look Up To The Heavens” recorded and produced by John Hodgkinson So, one more \u201cGod Given Ideas\u201d from UCBs \u201cThe Word For Today\u201d written by Bob and Debbie Gass. In What the World Owes to Christians, Dr Victor Pierce, an Oxford scholar, shares […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}