Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
                
                
                
                    Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. There are some things only learned
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. There are some things only
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 11, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illus.:  “The Furnace Keeper”
One of the ancient kings of Persia loved to mingle with his people in disguise.  Once, dressed as a poor man, he descended the long flight of stairs, dark and damp to the tiny cellar where the fireman, seated on ashes, was tending the furnace..  The king sat down
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 26, 2025
                
                
                
                    [143].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – IN THE FURNACE AND THE LIONS’ DEN
This poem is the telling of two stories in Daniel, one of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the blazing furnace, and the other of Daniel in the lion’s den.
Both stories testify to the goodness of God, and both are examples of
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 13, 2025
                
                
                
                    [081].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FIERY BIRTH OF LIFE
THIS POEM IS STRICTLY COPYRIGHT.  IT MUST NOT BE ALTERED OR TAKEN.  IF IT IS USED I WOULD APPRECIATE KNOWING THAT.  The use in the Lord’s service is why I wrote it.
I have had some of my efforts stolen and reproduced in other’s names.  This has
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 2, 2007
                
                
                
                    Poem: An Unknown author expressed this concept in a Poem called: “In the Crucible”
Out from the mine and the darkness,
Out from the damp and the mold,
Out from the fiery furnace,
Cometh each grain of gold.
Crushed into atoms and leveled
Down to the humblest dust
With never a heart to pity,
With
                    
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                    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Augustine the fiery defender of the faith accepted Christ in the most unusual
way. After resisting God for a long time Augustine heard a child playing
nearby, saying, TOLLE LEGE, TOLLE LEGE, which means, Take, Read. He promptly
read a random verse from the Bible, Romans 13:13- 14, and gave his life
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Dec 27, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Near Cripple Creek, Colorado, gold and tellurium occur mixed as tellurite ore. The refining methods of the early mining camps could not separate the two elements, so the ore was thrown into a scrap heap.
One day a miner mistook a lump of ore for coal and tossed it into his stove. Later, while
                    
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                    Contributed by C Jordan on Jan 27, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was a fiery old revival preacher named Peter Cartwright who was famous for telling it like it was. He was preaching one time near Washington D.C. and the people of the church heard that Andrew Jackson was coming to visit. So they pulled Mr. Cartwright aside and said, "Listen Peter, the
                    
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                    Contributed by Bradley  Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
                
                
                
                    VICTOR FRANKL: PRISONER STORY
Victor Frankl was a Viennese psychiatrist whose entire family was captured and kept in Concentration camps in Nazi Germany. While Frankl was being held prisoner his father, mother and wife all died in camps.  Only Frankl’s sister and himself survived.
Dr. Frankl has
                    
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                    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Oct 18, 2025
                
                
                
                    I’d like to introduce you to another great Daniel. Now this man is remembered as a great, a great in his sport and a great in New Zealand. Here he is playing in the jersey of the Worlds most successful rugby franchise, consistently the best team in New Zealand also. You can all appreciate just how
                    
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                    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Dec 8, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dr. Ian Paisley, the fiery Irish cleric and politician was reputed to have been preaching one Sunday on the End Times - and in particular on the Day of Judgment. As he reached the climax of his address he said that on the Day of Judgment "there would be wailing and gnashing of teeth." At which
                    
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