Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 25, 2006
Do you know where pearls come from? They come from oysters. An oyster is a shellfish that lives in the ocean. They have a very hard shell that protects them, but sometimes something like a small grain of sand can get inside the shell and it causes a lot of pain and discomfort for the oyster.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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Tony Campolo tells a story about being in a church in Oregon where he was asked to pray for a man who had cancer. Campolo prayed boldly for the man’s healing.
That next week he got a telephone call from the man’s wife. She said, "You prayed for my husband. He had cancer." Campolo thought when he
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"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small too small to be worth talking about, for the day of
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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
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"Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its
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"If adversity hath killed his thousands, prosperity hath killed his ten thousands; therefore adversity is to be preferred. The once deceives, the other instructs; the one miserably happy, the other happily miserable; and therefore many
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for the one man who can stand prosperity there are a
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"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in
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