Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 3, 2005
                
                
                
                    As Roy Lessin writes: “If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 19, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "If our greatest need was for information,
God would have sent an educator."
"If our greatest need was for technology,
God would have sent a scientist."
"If our greatest need was for pleasure,
God would have sent an entertainer."
"If our greatest need was for money
God would have sent an
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 5, 2013
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    JUDGE ROY MOORE AND FAITH
Recently Roy Moore reclaimed his position as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, a post he was forcibly removed from because he refused to take down a monument of the Ten Commandments in defiance of a federal order.  Not going to get into the dispute over the
                    
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                    In the 1929 Rose Bowl, Georgia Tech was playing the University of California when the ball popped out of the hands of a Georgia Tech back. Roy Riegels, the University of California center, scooped it up and cut across the field. Then, finding himself hemmed in, he reversed his field. It was at this
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jun 21, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [Christian Contradictions, Citation: Joseph Roy, Leadership, Vol. 5, no. 4.]
A true Christian is a sign of contradiction--a living symbol of the Cross. 
He or she is a person who believes the unbelievable, bears the unbearable, forgives the unforgivable, loves the unlovable, is perfectly happy not
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 26, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Earlier this month, the Siegfried & Roy show in Las Vegas was brought to a dramatic close when a seven-year-old, white Bengal tiger attacked Roy and drug him off the stage before an audience of 1500 people.  It was Roy’s 59th birthday, and shortly after introducing the Tiger, it bit Roy on the
                    
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                    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Jul 10, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illustration
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El Roi, The God Who Sees
Only used once in the Bible, Genesis 16:13, on the lips of Hagar. Sarah had given Hagar to Abraham to have children. This was according to custom in those days, but not according to God. After Hagar bore Ishmael, Sarah treated her so harshly, Hagar
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
                
                
                
                    Roy Campanella was one of the first African Americans to play in the US Baseball major leagues. In a distinguished career he won the Brooklyn Dodgers Most Valued Player award many times, and in 1955 was on the team that won the World Series.
But in January 1958 his career was cut short after a car
                    
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                    Contributed by Elicia Roy on Mar 17, 2021
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LIGHT IN THE DARK
We have been jolted,
Tested and tried,
Our times have been dark,
With some comforts denied.
Things that we clung to,
And thought our security,
Were ripped from our hold,
Caused feelings of unsurety. 
“What will tomorrow bring?”
“Is there hope for this dark time?”
“Is there any
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 10, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    On a port call in the Philippines Roy Fowler saw a great illustration. 
The driver of a caribou wagon overtook an old man carrying a very heavy load. Having compassion on him, the driver invited the old man to ride in the wagon for free.
Gratefully the old man accepted. He got in the wagon and
                    
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                    Contributed by Joel Preston on Nov 7, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Several years ago Roy Firestone interviewed the legendary basketball player Kareem Abdul Jabar. During the interview, Firestone Asked Jabar if there was one coach that he had during his career that influenced him the most. Immediately, Jabar answered, “Yes, John Wooten of UCLA.” Firestone then
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When Roy DeLamotte was chaplain at Paine College in Georgia, he preached the shortest sermon in the college’s history. However, he had a rather long topic--"What does Christ Answer When We Ask, "Lord, What’s in Religion for Me?" The complete content of his sermon was in one word: "Nothing." He
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 21, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ROY RIEGELS: DON'T GIVE UP
On New Year’s Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played the University of California in the Rose Bowl. A UC player named Roy Riegels, who was their center, recovered a fumble for California and in the confusion of evading some of the Georgia Tech tacklers, started running
                    
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                    Roy Anthony Borges was sentenced to a term of 45 years in a Florida penitentiary for robbery.  He has become a Christian and is a law clerk in the prison library.  Roy tells this story in an article he wrote for DISCIPLESHIP JOURNAL and
MEN OF INTEGRITY magazine in 1998:
	“Where the strong prey on
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 8, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Roy Whetstine was a rock collector whose two sons each had given him five dollars to buy a rock for them at a rock show. One table had a Tupperware container with a large potato-sized rock surrounded by a lot of agates. The sign read: “Any stone $15.” Roy picked up the big rock and asked, “You want
                    
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                    Contributed by Shawn Rose on Nov 28, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    It is easy to become a slave to hatred in our hearts.  A good friend of mine, "Roy", became angry with another friend of mine, "Lee", several years ago.  "Roy" has never forgiven "Lee" for the trespass, and "Lee" has never known that "Roy" is angry with him.  Recently, I bumped into "Roy" and asked
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 7, 2008
                
                
                
                    It was January and a crowd of mostly Christian children and teenagers had gathered for a Bible Camp at the Station Field complex of Pattimura University on the Island of Ambon in Indonesia.  When the camp was over, cars came to take the laughing; rejoicing children back to their homes.  But there
                    
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