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  • Professional Golfer Paul Azinger Was Diagnosed ...  PRO

    Contributed by Todd Randolph on Jun 30, 2001
    based on 74 ratings
     | 2,936 views

    Professional golfer Paul Azinger was diagnosed with cancer at age 33. He had just won a PGA championship and had ten tournament victories to his credit. He wrote, "A genuine feeling of fear came over me. I could die from cancer. Then another reality hit me even harder. I’m going to die eventually ...read more

  • Compassion's Reward  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
    based on 16 ratings
     | 5,210 views

    COMPASSION'S REWARD Born over sixty years ago in Yugoslavia, she responded to God’s call on her life while still a teenager. A missionary’s strong challenge to give her life to teaching in India resulted in her appointment to the city of Calcutta. Some months later she saw a sight which ...read more

  • The Answer To Death, Citation: Robert Russell, ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 1, 2003
    based on 13 ratings
     | 3,925 views

    [The Answer to Death, Citation: Robert Russell, "Resurrection Promises," Preaching Today, Tape No. 151.] Professional golfer Paul Azinger was diagnosed with cancer at age 33. He had just won a PGA championship and had ten tournament victories to his credit. He wrote, "A genuine feeling of fear ...read more

  • Clenched Fist Toward God  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 28, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
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    Clenched Fist Toward God A story I heard personally from Malcolm Muggeridge (that stirred me then and still does even yet) was his account of a conversation he had with Svetlana Stalin, the daughter of Josef Stalin. She spent some time with Muggeridge in his home in England while they were working ...read more

  • Story: There Was An Article In One Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,136 views

    STORY: There was an article in one of the magazines where a one year old had such a serious medical condition that only an experimental medical procedure MIGHT help her. Otherwise she would die in a short time. Certain members of the family were strongly opposed to going ahead with it. The parents ...read more

  • There Was An Article In One Of The Magazines ...

    Contributed by Neil Partington on Jul 31, 2007
     | 1,337 views

    There was an article in one of the magazines where a one year old had such a serious medical condition that only an experimental medical procedure MIGHT help her. Otherwise she would die in a short time. Certain members of the family were strongly opposed to going ahead with it. The parents were ...read more

  • Your Will Gives Out First

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
     | 1,866 views

    YOUR WILL GIVES OUT FIRST I can remember trying out for the cross country team at my high school, I could not understand how some of these guys did it, they could run and be fine at the finish line, I on the other hand was literally dying and giving up a mile short. The coach told me that the ...read more

  • Will Gives Out First

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 1,799 views

    Will Gives Out First I can remember trying out for the cross country team at my high school. I could not understand how some of these guys did it. they could run and be fine at the finish line. I on the other hand was literally dying and giving up a mile short. The coach told me that the great ...read more

  • The Story Is Told About A Man Who Lay On His ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Mar 16, 2009
     | 1,222 views

    The story is told about a man who lay on his death bed with his family and friends gathered around him. As he lay there he asked a friend to check and see if there was anything in his pockets. The friend checked and found the man had a dime in one pocket. The dying man asked him to place it in ...read more

  • Seasick Hope  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 8,202 views

    SEASICK HOPE A passenger on an ocean liner was enduring a rough Atlantic crossing. As he leaned over the rail, his face a shade of green, a steward came along and tried to encourage him: "Don’t be discouraged, sir! No one’s ever died of seasickness yet!" The nauseous passenger looked up at the ...read more

  • We Need A Spiritual Transplantation. Like A ...

    Contributed by Mark Pierce on May 25, 2010
     | 2,100 views

    We need a spiritual transplantation. Like a blood disease patient with bad blood we are born with an inbred spirit bent towards evil. We need God's Spirit! Patients with blood diseases often need a transplantation. Registry of millions, 6,000 people check every day for new donors Go to ...read more

  • After A Battle In The Civil War, A Chaplain Came ...

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 11, 2012
     | 1,552 views

    After a battle in the Civil War, a chaplain came to see a dying man. The chaplain took the soldier's hand and asked, "Brother, what can I do for you?" The soldier replied, "Chaplain, I want you to kneel down and return thanks to God for me." "Thanks for what?" asked the Chaplain. The man continued, ...read more

  • Chaplain Ernst Gordon In His Book "Through The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on May 8, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,027 views

    ’Chaplain Ernst Gordon in his book "Through the Valley of the Quai" tells of the hardship prisoners of War during World War II as they were imprisoned by the Japanese army. These men wrote Chaplain Gordon were reduced to skeletons, riddled with disease, and the only way they could survive was by ...read more

  • One Friday Afternoon, After A Long Day At The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 1,871 views

    One Friday afternoon, after a long day at the office you are driving home and you turn the radio on. You hear about a little village in India where a few villagers died suddenly from some kind of mysterious flu. You don’t think much about it, but on Sunday, coming home from church, you hear about ...read more

  • The Stages Of Loss

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 20, 2010
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    THE STAGES OF LOSS Several years ago a profound and dramatic research project began in Chicago's Billings Hospital. It was a seminar on death, in which psychiatists, chaplains, nurses, and medical doctors studied the ultimate human crisis of facing death. Basic findings is that the very ill ...read more

  • Jurgen Moltmann Says, "Expectation Makes Life ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 6, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,158 views

    Jurgen Moltmann says, “Expectation makes life good, for in expectation we can accept our whole present and find joy not only in its joy but also in its sorrow, happiness not only in its happiness but also in its pain. Thus hope goes on its way through the midst of happiness and pain, because in ...read more

  • H. You See Dear Friends, We Learn More About God ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,648 views

    H. YOU SEE DEAR FRIENDS, WE LEARN MORE ABOUT GOD IN THE VALLEY THAN WE DO ON A MOUNTAIN TOP, BECAUSE OUR HEARING IS MORE ACUTE 1. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SUFFERING DOES, IS REMIND US HOW FRAIL AND DEPENDANT ON GOD WE ARE. I. THAT’S WHY C. S. LEWIS CALLED SUFFERING AND PAIN, "GOD’S MEGAPHONE" AND ...read more

  • The Emblem Of Suffering And Shame

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
     | 4,016 views

    THE EMBLEM OF SUFFERING AND SHAME Crucifixion was a form of execution that the Romans had learned from the Persians. The Persians had developed a method of crucifying victims by impaling them on a pole. Later cultures developed different methods of crucifixion, And Rome employed several of them. ...read more

  • 6. Similarities Between The Death Of Stephen ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 10, 2008
     | 9,682 views

    6. Similarities between the death of Stephen and the death of Jesus (note: I have altered): 1. Both were tried before the high priest 2. Both were accused by false witnesses 3. Both were accused of threatening to destroy the temple 4. Both mention "the Son of Man" 5. Both charged with blasphemy 6. ...read more

  • Not Long Ago, Off The Coast Of The Dominican ...

    Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
     | 1,645 views

    Not long ago, off the coast of the Dominican Republic, a couple was attempting to break the free-diving record (a sport of testing how deep a person can go on one gulp of air). After Audrey had descended to the predetermined depth of 561 ft, her lift bag tragically did not inflate. What should ...read more

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