Contributed by Clark Tanner on Aug 31, 2007
There is a very old story about a man and his boy who were walking through the jungle and came upon a man who had fallen into a pit dug to trap lions. He had been trying in vain for hours to climb out and had accomplished nothing except to exhaust himself.
Nighttime was about to fall and both he
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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With regard to alcohol abuse:
1. Currently, nearly 14 million Americans—1 in every 13 adults-abuse alcohol or are alcoholic.
2. Several million more adults engage in risky drinking patterns that could lead to alcohol problems.
3. Even more scary and sad is how young people are when they get
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Mar 20, 2008
Tom Dooley was a young doctor who organized hospitals, raised money, and literally poured out his life in the service of the afflicted peoples of Southeast Asia. Here was a man whose deep relationship with God motivated him to abandon a soft career in the United States for a desperately difficult
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Maximilian Kolbe was a Catholic priest, who was put in a Nazi concentration camp for his faith. On May 28, 1941, he was transferred to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. One day a man in Kolbe’s block escaped. All of the men from that block were brought out into the hot sun and made to stand
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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a good preacher friend of mine told me personally this story.
One day while visiting the nursing home, he came across a lady who was very discouraged. In fact, she wanted to die. He made it a point to visit her every time he went, and one day she finally opened up to him and told this very sad
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 24, 2016
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RENEWED LIKE THE EAGLE
When the Psalmist mentions the renewal of the eagle, he may be referring to the "molting process" in an eagle’s life. As eagles age, their beaks and talons become encrusted with calcium. Thus, neither is as sharp as they once were. When this happens the aging eagle cannot
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Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 31, 2023
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Where your ability ... and the worlds need intersect... is where you are most needed ......and can and will be ... where you will do the most good.
The author Loren Eisely ... would go to the ocean ...to do his writing.
He had a habit ... of walking on the beach ... before he began ...his
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 24, 2013
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THE BLOOD AND WATER
Before I became a minister I attended a secular college for a couple of years. While I was there I took several classes I thought would help me when I went to Bible college, and some of those classes were in Philosophy.
Now Philosophy and Christianity are somewhat at odds.
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Contributed by Mark Holdcroft on Nov 8, 2003
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Only a few days ago I saw a video of the Bradford City fire disaster, as part of a fire training exercise at work. I was eight years old when it happened, and had heard about it, but I had never seen the footage, that was captured live, by a shocked camera crew who just kept filming.
On Saturday
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 3, 2001
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Many years ago, Indian youths would go away in solitude to prepare for manhood. One such youth hiked into a beautiful valley, green with trees, bright with flowers. There he fasted. But on the third day, as he looked up at the surrounding mountains, he noticed one tall rugged peak, capped with
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I love the story of a king that wanted to show his people how much he loved them.
So, he decided to pay for a great feast for his kingdom.
He decided to have a great meal and invite every family.
The king would provide all the meat, all the vegetables, all the desserts ...
everything, the
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 9, 2002
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[illustration, James Dobson, New Man, October, 1994, p. 36.]
This is an exert from an article that James Dobson wrote in 1994 about Stephen Hawking, whom I believe has since died…
Stephen Hawking is an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and perhaps the most intelligent man on earth.
He has
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