Many years ago the great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick told of a teenage girl stricken with polio. As he visited with her, she told him about a conversation she’d had with one of her friends, who told her, "Affliction does so color life." To which this courageous young girl agreed, but said that
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
Chuck Swindoll tells this story about one of his daughters when she was quite small. One day he came home tired from a long day of ministry. As he sat in his easy chair in front of a relaxing football game, hoping to catch the last half in peace, his young daughter approached him and began
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Contributed by Michael Luke on Mar 26, 2007
Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Charles Darnay, a young Frenchman
condemned to die in the guillotine. But when Sidney Carton, his friend, heard about Darnay’s
sentence, he was determined to find a way to save him.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Aug 26, 2002
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For Joachim Neander praise was evoked by life-changing memories from his youth. To say he was a rebel is probably an understatement. Most of his youth was spent with little regard for God and His Word. Sometimes he even outrightly mocked the Word of God and those who preached it. Neander and
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Lutheran
Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 16, 2003
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ILLUSTRATION… From Stress/Unstress by Keith W. Wehnert, 1981, Augsburg
Symptoms of Stress Overload
1. Decision-making becomes difficult (both major and minor kinds).
2. Excessive daydreaming or fantasizing about “getting away from it all.”
3. Increased use of cigarettes and/or alcohol.
4. Increased
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Contributed by Abimbola Salu on Sep 8, 2003
Imagine if you see an offer in a store, in a magazine or on the Internet offering to give you One Million dollars. Imagine that all you have to do is to make a phone call, write a letter or send an e-mail and you will automatically win this gift –no gimmicks, no gadgets, you don’t need to buy
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Baptist
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The death of C.S. Lewis in Nov. 22, 1963 has for years been overshadowed by the assisination of President John F. Kennedy on the same day. While the anniversary of Lewis’ death seldom gets much press, throngs of people crowd into Arlington Memorial Cemetary to watch the changing of the guard at the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Joel Santos on Sep 24, 2004
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When cartoonist Charles Schulz dined in the home of a friend, the host remarked that he needed something to setoff his dinner jacket. He disappeared and returned a few minutes with a heavy chain from which a medallion hung, and across the face of the medallion were the letters "love". Schultz
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 29, 2007
One of my earliest childhood recollections was in N. Wales and I was told by my mother never to eat a certain seed on a tree yet my brother and his friends encouraged me to eat it a similiar scenario to Adam and Eve do’nt you think? ...I was tempted to eat some laburnum seeds - I gave in to
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, which in the 1960’s became what is today the missions agency OMF International, knew the secret of strength through weakness. Complimented once by a friend on the impact of the mission, Hudson answered, “It seemed to me that God looked over the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Another story is told of an elderly German woman who, as her village was being entered by an American unit during the final days of the Second World War, she stood in the middle of the street holding a small U.S. flag. Her friends told her she was crazy; she should hide and wait to see who would
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Jerry Jones, a gospel preacher, tells about a Christian man and his wife who lost their young SON in a TRAGIC ACCIDENT on Good Friday in 1996. The boy’s funeral was on Easter Sunday. During the MEMORIAL service the father got up and shared with his family and friends that Easter had taken on a new
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Holiness
Are you living a HOLY life? If I went to your friends at work and asked, "Is (you) a Christian?" How would they answer?
Would they say "Absolutely! The guy prays at every meal, he will pray with people who are hurting, he always is there to help out, and he is the best employee at our
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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