Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 11, 2012
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,
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on May 8, 2006
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’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
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Lutheran
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
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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
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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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
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
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.
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 10, 2008
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
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
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
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OUR LOVE SO FAINT, THINE SO GREAT
The great hymn writer, Isaac Watts, once asked in a hymn: "Dear Lord, and shall we ever live at this poor dying rate? Our love so faint, so cold to Thee, and Thine to us so great?"
Likely so, unless God himself startles us and shakes us free from our complacency.
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 6, 2004
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Forgiveness in Action
Pastor Hayes a man in his middle forties, was well-loved by his congregation, and faithful to God and to his family. He enjoyed a successful ministry in an exuberantly vital, growing church. Just when everything seemed to be going well, a cloud came over this man and his
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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Let me read to you; A Story of friendship
Out of the furnaces of war come many true stories of sacrificial friendship. One such story tells of two friends in World War I, who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together and fought side-by-side in
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Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 19, 2008
WORLD WAR 1 FRIENDS – Powerful Illustration
Out of the furnaces of war come many true stories of sacrificial friendship. One such story tells of two friends in World War I, who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together and fought side-by-side in
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Contributed by Richard Francis on Aug 19, 2008
I recently heard Robert Fergusson a minister at the Hillsong Church in Sydney define four types of people with a heart for people, people who are inspiring, not comfortable to be around, go out into communities to help the sick, wounded, bleeding, dying ones into a deep pool of blessing, these
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Scientists studied a native tribe in South America whose people have been dying prematurely for generations. After thorough investigation, the cause of premature death was determined. The disease was transmitted by an insect that lived in the walls of their adobe homes. This new information
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