In Sermon Illustrations: "Enduring Trials"

In Discipleship Journal, Carole Mayhall Tells Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005

In Discipleship Journal, Carole Mayhall tells of a woman who went to a diet center to lose weight. The director took her to a full-length mirror. On it he outlined a figure and told her, “This is what I want you to be like at the end of the program.” Days of intense dieting and exercise followed, ...read more

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Antonio Was An Italian Boy Who Loved Music, But ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005

Antonio was an Italian boy who loved music, but whenever he tried to sing the music that was in his heart, it came out so badly that all his friends laughed at him. Next to singing, the boy loved to hear the violin. He had a pocketknife he always carried with him and he would whittle all sorts of ...read more

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Royt Blount, Quoted By Karin Winegar In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005

Royt Blount, quoted by Karin Winegar in Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune When Ralph Houk was manager of the New York Yankees, baseball schedules were even more exacting than they are now, with double-headers almost every week. Occasionally a player would get sick of the grind and approach Houk, ...read more

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Plato Wrote The First Sentence Of His Famous ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005

Plato wrote the first sentence of his famous Republic nine different ways before he was satisfied. Cicero practiced speaking before friends every day for thirty years to perfect his elocution. Noah Webster labored 36 years writing his dictionary, crossing the Atlantic twice to gather material. ...read more

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Bertoldo De Giovanni Is A Name Even The Most ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005

Bertoldo de Giovanni is a name even the most enthusiastic lover of art is unlikely to recognize. He was the pupil of Donatello, the greatest sculptor of his time, and he was the teacher of Michelangelo, the greatest sculptor of all time. Michelangelo was only 14 years old when he came to Bertoldo, ...read more

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Persistence Paid Off For American Astronomer ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005

Persistence paid off for American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet Pluto. After astronomers calculated a probable orbit for this “suspected” heavenly body, Tombaugh took up the search in March 1929. Time magazine recorded the investigation: “He examined scores of telescopic ...read more

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Johnny Fulton Was Run Over By A Car At The Age Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005

Johnny Fulton was run over by a car at the age of three. He suffered crushed hips, broken ribs, a fractured skull, and compound fractures in his legs. It did not look as if he would live. But he would not give up. In fact, he later ran the half-mile in less than two minutes. Walt Davis was totally ...read more

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Famed Educator Booker T. Washington Recalled The ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2005

Famed educator Booker T. Washington recalled the “entrance exam” that earned him a place at the Hampton Institute in Virginia as a young man. The head teacher ordered Washington to take a broom and sweep the classroom. Because he knew this was his chance, he swept the room three times and dusted ...read more

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Video Clip From Movie "Ray"

Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jan 7, 2006

Video Clip from movie "Ray" Chapter:13 Start:1:09:26 End:1:12:06 - 2:40 This clip shows Ray Charles as a child falling down and his mother painfully watching (not rescuing) him ...read more

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Denomination: Christian Church

On The Fourth Of July In 1951, Florence Chadwick, ...  PRO

Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 30, 2006

On the Fourth of July in 1951, Florence Chadwick, the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions, attempted to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast. The challenge was not so much the distance, but the bone-chilling waters of the Pacific. To complicate matters, a dense ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:6

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Denomination: Lutheran

Every Morning In Africa A Gazelle Wakes Up. It ...

Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jan 31, 2006

“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes and it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn’t matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, ...read more

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Denomination: Pentecostal

In The Dark Of Night, A Bedouin In The Sands Of ...

Contributed by Bruce Mccoy on Feb 8, 2006

In the dark of night, a Bedouin in the sands of Arabia was eating dates as he lay in his tent. As he took a date & bit into it – he found a worm inside. He bit into another & discovered a worm in it, too. He tried another…& saw a worm in the next one as well. There was a worm in ...read more

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Denomination: Baptist

It Is The Duty Of All Nations To Acknowledge The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to ...read more

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The Idea That The Service To God Should Have ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"The idea that the service to God should have only to do with a church altar, singing, reading, sacrifice, and the like is without doubt but the worst trick of the devil. How could the devil have led us more effectively astray than by the narrow conception that service to God takes place only in a ...read more

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Courage Is Contagious. When A Brave Man Takes A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often ...read more

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Press Forward. Do Not Stop, Do Not Linger In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set ...read more

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Do Not Waver, But Give Him That Which He ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

“Do not waver, but give him that which he desires, your hearts; it is the heart the Lord Jesus Christ wanteth; and when you have an inward principle wrought in your hearts by this same Jesus, then you will feel ...read more

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Learn, O Saints! From What Has Been Said, To Sit ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006

“Learn, O saints! From what has been said, to sit loose to all your worldly comforts; and stand ready prepared to part with everything, when God ...read more

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By Perseverance

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2006

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” ...read more

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3. The Bitter Road To Dachau By Robert L. Wise ...

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 14, 2006

3. The Bitter Road to Dachau by Robert L. Wise reviewed by Cheryl Russell: a. Pastor Christian Reger’s descent into hell begins in 1940. As a leader in the Confessing Church during World War II, he is arrested by the Nazis and eventually sent to the Dachau concentration camp. Here, as prisoner ...read more

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Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational