Contributed by Lynn Malone on Mar 23, 2006
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Reinhold Niebuhr, a famous American Protestant theologian in the 20th century, served as both a working pastor in Detroit and a respected professor at Yale University. He told the story of a flatland farm boy who, all his young life, dreamed of being a sailor on a tall-masted sailing ship. He
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Methodist
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 23, 2006
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Rev. John McNeil told the following story:
A ship once wrecked on the Irish coast. The captain was a careful one. Nor had the weather been of so severe a kind to explain the wide distance the ship had swerved from her course. The ship went down, but so much interest was attached to the disaster
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 18, 2008
The Celtic was of spirituality was amazingly holistic. It did not reflect the dualism of the modern age. The Irish such as Patrick understood that the earth was the Lord’s. They saw God’s hand at work in nature (in their environment). They saw their work on earth to be part of their spiritual
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Church Of God
Contributed by Robert Leroe on Dec 9, 2008
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FAIR-WEATHER CHRISTIANS
During the American Revolution, farmers who joined the Continental Army during the spring and summer went AWOL in the fall and winter. They were known as "summer soldiers". They signed up with the Army after their crops were planted, they fought the British over the
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Congregational
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Martin Moore-Ede, in his book Twenty-Four Hour Society: Understanding Human Limits in a World That Never Stops, says, “Our most notorious industrial accidents in recent years — Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the fatal navigational error of Korean Air Lines 007 — all occurred in the
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Methodist
Contributed by Jeff Ruth on May 17, 2003
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In our text we have and example of going back and the tragic results. The Israelites come to the border of the promised land. Moses sends out twelve spies. They scope out the scene. They come back and give their report. Ten of them said, ”We have seen this good land. We saw great walled cities. And
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Story: About 14 years ago I went on a training conference when I was working as a Patent Attorney for a Swiss multinational company called Sandoz.
And one of the conundrums they set us to test our ingenuity was this:
You are in a plane flying over the desert and as you are sitting near the
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Anglican
FOUR CHAPLAINS
It was the evening of Feb. 2, 1943, and the U.S. Army Transport Ship Dorchester was crowded to capacity. Hans J. Danielsen, the ship's captain, was concerned and cautious. He knew they were in dangerous waters; German U-boats were constantly prowling these vital sea lanes,
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Lutheran
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 27, 2002
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John Newton was a rough, dirty sailor with a foul mouth and an appetite for rotten living. He hated life and life hated him. He was captain of a slave ship. Then someone placed in his hands a copy of Thomas a Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ. He also had the gift of a good mother who told him about
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Contributed by Mark Mccool on Apr 21, 2003
During the Bosnian Conflict, NATO forces were sent to assist matters in protecting the Croats from Serbian aggression.
During this conflict and while in faithful service, 29 year old United States Air Force pilot, Captain Scott O’Grady, was shot down on June 2, 1995, while flying his F-16 Falcon
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Pentecostal
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SHIPWRECK AND STRANDED
A man was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. He painstakingly built a little hut for protection and a place to keep the few items he had salvaged from the wreck. He prayed fervently for his rescue, scanning the horizon for a ship, but NOTHING. For weeks he lived under
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Dec 24, 2006
Story: “Our Father’s Home”
Two strangers, a small boy and an older man, were fishing from the banks of the Mississippi River.
As time passed they discovered that, although the fishing was rather poor, conversation was good.
And by the time the sun began to sink in the west they had talked of
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Christian Church
Contributed by Tim White on Jun 19, 2009
John Newton was a rough, dirty sailor with a foul mouth and an appetite for rotten living. He hated life and life hated him. He was captain of a slave ship. Then someone placed in his hands a copy of Thomas a Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ. He also had the gift of a good mother who told him about
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 13, 2008
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The Hinsons sang:
I’m enlisted as a soldier in this mighty army band,
marching out to battle with my weapon in my hand,
heard the captain give the orders and they don’t include retreat,
We’re crossing o’er the border to a land of no defeat.
Now tell me who’s gonna fight and who is gonna win,
who’s
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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In 1986, there were two ships that collided off the Russian coast. Hundreds of people were thrown to their deaths in the icy waters. When the authorities investigated the cause of the accident they did not find any mechanical or technical problems. They found a human problem.
Seems that both
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 30, 2004
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[Illustration]
Jesus stressed the positive effect we can have on others when He said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16 RSV).
But if sin dims our testimony so that our “light” is no longer visible,
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