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Let me close with a true story of a humble black pastor in the inner city of Chicago who was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
“He was in his late sixties and had been a minister throughout his adult life. His love for the Lord was so profound that it was reflected in everything he said. When he
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Illustration- Mistake at the Movies
A young fellow named John had purchased movie tickets for his girlfriend and himself. While he got the popcorn, she went inside to find seats.
By the time he was served, the previews were being shown. As he fumbled his way in the dark, he sat down and gave his
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Illustration- Lazy
I heard about a man whose family sent him to the doctor because he constantly complained of being too sick to work. The doctor examined his patient, then told him to get dressed and meet him in his office.
When the man came into the office and sat down, he said, “Give it to me
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Illustration- Two Brothers
You may have heard about the two brothers who were wicked, ungodly, lewd men. The were perverts, adulterers, drunkards, thieves, brawlers, blasphemous- you name it
One of the brothers died, and the other brother came to a preacher sand said, “I will give you a thousand
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Illustration- Servant’s Heart
A minister shared how in his church they were in desperate need of a person to teach a junior high boys class.
• Those willing to do it came down to a list with one name on it.
• When the minister heard the name he said, ‘You have got to be kidding’.
He says now
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The story is told of Mother Tereasa entering a home for the gravely ill and dying. At one bedside was a young nun who was cleaning a gaping wound in the neck of a woman being devoured by maggots. The exposed flesh was covered with the squirming creatures, and the nun was removing them one by one,
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There is a story about the Apostle John at the end of his life. He was the pastor at the church in Ephesus, and at this point he was so old that he could no longer walk. Sunday after Sunday they other elders would carry him in on a mat and set him in the middle of the assembly. From this mat he
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January 6, 1850, was bitterly cold in Colchester, England, a hard-biting blizzard keeping most worshipers at home.
At the Primitive Methodist Chapel on Artillery Street only about a dozen showed up.
When it became apparent that even the pastor would not arrive, a man rose and spoke from Isaiah
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Dietrich Bonheoffer once asked this question of us,
"Do we understand that instead we get a messiah who gives us power all right, but it’s a whole new kind of power, it’s THE POWER OF SUFFERING LOVE
It’s a power that looks me in the eye, forgives my sin, my fear, my anger, my resentment, my
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