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  • Our Hope Of Rescue  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2003
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,910 views

    OUR HOPE OF RESCUE Did you see the story on CNN this past Sunday of the rescued POWs? When Kenneth Krueger pulled his big rig in front of former POW Shoshana Johnson’s home and began whooping and blowing on the horn, I understood the joy and relief that she was alive and would be home soon. ...read more

  • A Hope Beyond This Life  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jun 8, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,692 views

    A HOPE BEYOND THIS LIFE Russell Davis was a 10-year-old boy who knew a hope that went beyond this life. He had fought cancer for 4 years when he wrote this note to his best friend. Dear Brian, How are you doing? I’m alright in the hospital but a little sleepy. I know that you worry about me some ...read more

  • The Power Of Godly Hope

    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Feb 23, 2006
     | 3,253 views

    *King Duncan tells the story that reminds us of the power of this hope. This happened in 1993, to a man named Terry Stout. Terry was the business manager for the Psychiatry Department at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. *One Fall morning Terry was running a little late, but (I’m sure led by ...read more

  • Hope Is Not The Conviction That Something Will ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 3,557 views

    "Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes ...read more

  • Where There Is No Hope In The Future, There Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Where there is no hope in the future, there is no ...read more

  • Hope Is A Powerful Thing….

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Oct 31, 2007
     | 1,432 views

    Hope is a powerful thing…. A number of years ago researchers performed an experiment to see the effect hope has on those undergoing hardship. Two sets of laboratory rats were placed in separate tubs of water. The researchers left one set in the water and found that within an hour they had all ...read more

  • Poem Called Hope  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 26, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,286 views

    Poem called Hope It’s magic and it’s free. It’s not in a prescription. It’s not in an IV. It punctuates our laughter, it sparkles in our tears. It simmers under sorrows, and dissipates our fears. Do you know what Hope is? It’s reaching past today. It’s dreaming of tomorrow. It’s trying a ...read more

  • Hope Is Certain, Not Uncertain

    Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 25, 2008
     | 3,395 views

    HOPE IS CERTAIN, NOT UNCERTAIN Our use of the word "hope" is usually based on uncertainty. Suppose an engaged couple says, "We have an outdoor wedding planned for Saturday; we hope it doesn't rain." In saying this, they are saying that the possibility of rain is there, but their preference is for ...read more

  • We Need Hope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
     | 2,850 views

    WE NEED HOPE Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Dusk was falling on the Saturday before Christmas in 1927 the S-4 submarine (S-class submarines, were the first class of submarines built ...read more

  • Linus On The Hope In The Truth

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,512 views

    Linus on the Hope in the Truth A Peanuts cartoon pictured Lucy and Linus looking out the window at a steady downpour of rain. "Boy," said Lucy, "look at it rain. What if it floods the whole world?" "It will never do that," Linus replied confidently. "In the ninth chapter of Genesis, God promised ...read more

  • Hope Of A Good Day

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
     | 4,184 views

    Hope of a Good Day Max Lucado, preacher and writer, teaches that "every day deserves a chance." He feels so strongly about it, he wrote a book with the same title. Regardless of what is in our day, if we give it a chance, it can become a "good" day. Of course, coupled with this thought is the ...read more

  • Hope Changes Everything

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jan 3, 2009
     | 3,040 views

    HOPE CHANGES EVERYTHING From Parade magazine comes the story of self-made millionaire Eugene Land, who greatly changed the lives of a sixth-grade class in East Harlem. Mr. Lang had been asked to speak to a class of 59 sixth-graders. What could he say to inspire these students, most of whom would ...read more

  • Hope Brings Survival

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
     | 3,261 views

    HOPE BRINGS SURVIVAL Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychologist, survived death camps of Nazi Germany. Frankl was determined to know why some survived and some did not. He looked at several factors: health, vitality, family, survival skills, intelligence. He concluded that none of these factors was ...read more

  • Hope And A Grateful Heart  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,023 views

    HOPE AND A GRATEFUL HEART There is an old legend of a man who found the barn where Satan kept his seeds ready to be sown in the human heart. On finding the seeds of discouragement more numerous than others, he learned that those seeds could be made to grow almost anywhere. When questioned, Satan ...read more

  • There's Always Hope  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
    based on 3 ratings
     | 5,077 views

    THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE Ever felt like your life was the most unlucky of all? No matter what, the human spirit can be an amazing thing. Take for example the case of Larry Hanratty, who was named by the Los Angeles Times in 2007 the most unlucky man in California. This poor man was nearly executed to ...read more

  • Alexander The Great On Hope

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
    based on 1 rating
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    ALEXANDER THE GREAT ON HOPE Jesus is a sign of hope, and the friend of those who will not let hope die. He must increase, and we must decrease. The Macedonian king, Alexander the Great, was about to launch a great campaign. It would be trying and difficult. It would mean slogging across the ...read more

  • The Hope Of 3:16  PRO

    Contributed by James Mercer on Dec 8, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,841 views

    THE HOPE OF 3:16 I don’t know about you, but I will be glad to turn the calendar to a new decade in a few weeks. An ongoing war on two fronts, the Great Recession draining our family resources, the growing immorality of our country, tragic accidents and gruesome killers all over the news. The ...read more

  • Hope Needs A Foundation

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
     | 2,523 views

    HOPE NEEDS A FOUNDATION A little over a month before he died, the famous atheist Jean-Paul Sartre, when trying to resist strong feelings of despair, would often say to himself, "I know I shall die in hope." ...read more

  • Living Without Hope

    Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Mar 17, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,770 views

    LIVING WITHOUT HOPE There was one TV spot which we leased and in my opinion crossed all barriers being the most thought-provoking. It pictured a man sitting in a room by himself with the camera coming up from behind him slowly. As the picture slowly panned past the man to show his dejected face, ...read more

  • The Story Of Faith Hope

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
     | 2,109 views

    THE STORY OF FAITH HOPE Myah Hope was given the news that she was pregnant. Like most mothers to be, she dreamed of what giving birth to a child and raising them would be like. But when she was 19 weeks pregnant, she was told that something was wrong with her baby's head. The doctor said that ...read more

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