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  • Suffering Can Become So Intense At Times That We ...

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 24, 2004
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    Suffering can become so intense at times that we don’t know how we can take any more pain. It’s in these moments that Jesus reassures us of His presence and sustains us, even though for reasons we do not understand the hurt is not taken away. Dr. Diane Komp, a pediatric cancer specialist at Yale ...read more

  • Donald Gray Barnhouse Was The Pastor Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    DONALD GRAY BARNHOUSE was the pastor of Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church, when his wife died and left him with young daughters to raise alone. He did something hardly anyone else could do--he conducted his own wife’s funeral. It was while driving to that funeral that he realized he had to ...read more

  • Do You Know The Legend Of The Cherokee Indian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of passage? His dad takes him into the forest blindfolded and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not take off the blindfold until the ray of sun shines through it. He is all by himself. He cannot cry out ...read more

  • A Construction Worker On The Job Site Fell One ...

    Contributed by Don Jones on Oct 23, 2007
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    A construction worker on the job site fell one day. He landed on his back and hurt himself badly. He told the boss he would finish and leave to get help and come back. Well the pain eased a bit and because the job required him to not miss work he ignored medical help and went to work the next ...read more

  • Dr. Robert Seizer, In His Book "Mortal ...

    Contributed by Ronald Franklin on Aug 7, 2008
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    ILLUS: Dr. Robert Seizer, in his book “Mortal Lessons: Notes in the Art of Surgery,” tells the story of a young husband and wife. He had operated to remove a tumor from the wife’s face, but in the process had unavoidably cut a facial nerve. It left her mouth permanently distorted. She asked him, ...read more

  • Two Little Boys Were The Best Of Friends. As They ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 16, 2008
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    Two little boys were the best of friends. As they grew up, their friendship only deepened. One became a preacher and the other a priest. And they would meet each week for coffee at the local Starbucks, no matter what else might be happening. After one such meeting, they shook hands and started to ...read more

  • Forgiveness Quotations

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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    FORGIVENESS QUOTATIONS The late great English religious writer and philanthropist, Hannah More (1745 - 1833) once said: "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart...forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." The late great American Protestant theologian, ...read more

  • Despite His Busy Schedule During The Civil War, ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 26, 2009
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    Despite his busy schedule during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln often visited the hospitals to cheer the wounded. On one occasion he saw a young fellow who was near death. “Is there anything I can do for you?” asked the compassionate President. “Please write a letter to my mother,” came the reply. ...read more

  • The Kindness Of Abraham Lincoln

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
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    THE KINDNESS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Despite his busy schedule during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln often visited the hospitals to cheer the wounded. On one occasion he saw a young fellow who was near death. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the compassionate President. "Please write a ...read more

  • A Mother's Marred Hands  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 13, 2011
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    A MOTHER'S MARRED HANDS There was a teenager who didn’t want to be seen in public with her mother, because her mother’s arms were terribly disfigured. One day when her mother took her shopping and reached out her hand, a clerk looked horrified. Later, crying, the girl told her how embarrassed she ...read more

  • The Sheep Dog  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2011
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    THE SHEEP DOG A man by the name of Keith Miller told of the time when his daughters were very young. They’d drop them off at the church’s children’s chapel on Sundays before the 11 am service. But one day Keith chanced to be in the class when the preacher was telling the story for the day to the ...read more

  • Lincoln Writes A Letter

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 24, 2011
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    LINCOLN WRITES A LETTER Despite his busy schedule during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln often visited the hospitals to cheer the wounded. On one occasion he saw a young fellow who was near death. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the compassionate President. "Please write a letter to ...read more

  • When We Have Nowhere Else To Go  PRO

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 28, 2011
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    WHEN WE HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO Over the years we have had many gut wrenching stores of families killed in an accident only to leave a mother or father behind. To wake up in a hospital bed hurting physically then realize that your entire family is gone would be unfathomable. Now none of us are ...read more

  • The Gates Will Not Prevail

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 17, 2011
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    THE GATES WILL NOT PREVAIL Jesus said: "Upon this rock (of Peter's testimony that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the Living God) I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it" Matthew 16:18 Now the odd thing about Jesus' statement was this: Gates don't attack. ...read more

  • Waking Up In Another Room

    Contributed by Jason W. Lawson on Nov 17, 2011
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    WAKING UP IN ANOTHER ROOM A young child was diagnosed with a terminal disease. The parents knew that he would die soon. The child as well knew that his death would be soon. One night he was sitting in his mother's lap watching television with her. He looked up into her eyes and said, "Mommy does ...read more

  • The Tragedy Of Steve Irwin

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 9, 2011
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    THE TRAGEDY OF STEVE IRWIN I loved to watch Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, but I knew he would die young. You simply do not play with wild animals without sooner or later getting in trouble. Steve survived countless snakebites; chased up a tree by a deadly komodo dragan; spat on by a red ...read more

  • Return To The Right Path

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2012
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    RETURN TO THE RIGHT PATH In one section of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Christian and Hopeful are walking the King's Highway to the Celestial City. The path, once smooth and easy, becomes rough and hard. Then they come to an attractive place called Bypath Meadow. They climb over a fence into ...read more

  • Trading Places

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 7, 2014
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    Several years ago, a Baptist camp in Texas was having the annual softball game between counselors and campers on the last day of church camp. The teams divided up and went at each other. After the game started, a teenager in center field chased a long fly ball and hurt his ankle. His pastor was ...read more

  • Love  PRO

    Contributed by Roger Whipp on Dec 31, 2014
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    Love is one of the most powerful emotions we have. The actress Joan Crawford once said “Love is a fire but whether it warms your heart or burns your house down, you can never tell!” Love can motivate, give pleasure, hurt even destroy. It can make us do bold, even stupid things. During the 17th ...read more

  • Love Obedience And The Law

    Contributed by Roger Whipp on Dec 31, 2014
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    Anyone that has been zapped by a speed camera or pulled over by the Police and gets a fine and endorsement is likely to be a bit more careful in the future, especially if the loss of their driving licence is threatened. Our obedience to the law doesn’t come about by our love for the policeman who ...read more