Contributed by Wayne Burnett on Feb 28, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    -All I will ever need to know I learned from Noah. One, Don’t miss the boat. Two, Remember that we are all in the same boat. Three. Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark . Four, Stay fit. When you’re 600 years old someone may ask you to do something really big. Five, Don’t listen to
                    
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                    Contributed by Don Hawks on Apr 14, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In his spiritual autobiography, William Barclay, the venerable Scottish scholar, tells the tragedy of losing his 21-year-old daughter and her fiance who were drowned in a boating accident. He writes, "God did not stop that accident at sea, but he did still the storm in my own heart so that somehow
                    
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                    Contributed by Jonathan  Busch on Dec 8, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Two men were walking through a field one day when they spotted an enraged bull. Immediately they ran toward the nearest fence. The storming bull ran after them in hot pursuit, and they realized that they were not going to make it. Terrified, one man shouted to his friend, “Say a prayer, John. We’re
                    
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                    “A young woman, eight months heavy with child, waddles into her mother’s house. Flops on the sofa. Kicks off her tennis shoes. Props her puffy feet on the coffee table. And groans, “I don’t think I can make it.”
     Wise from the years, the mother picks up the photo album and sits beside her
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Killam on Apr 18, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Max Lucado (as found in his ‘God’s Inspirational Promise Book’, but written for his book, ‘In the Eye of the Storm’), told this fictional story of an angel trying to find another way for salvation:
“He looked around the hill and foresaw a scene.  Three figures hung on three crosses.  Arms spread. 
                    
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                    Perseverance--James does not leave us in despair and defeat.  He assures us that our trials or tests develop Christian perseverance.  THE UPPER ROOM in the last few weeks has had a couple of fantastic devotionals on Perseverance.  A Texas lady by the name of Lou Storm wrote the devotional for
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I remember one winter my dad needed firewood, and he found a dead tree and sawed it down. In the spring, to his dismay, new shoots sprouted around the trunk. He said, “I thought sure it was dead. The leaves had all dropped in the wintertime. It was so cold that twigs snapped as if there were no
                    
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                    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Sep 27, 2006
                
                
                
                    In the day of horse and buggies, a father went to the school house to pick up his three children ages 9, 11, and 17. As soon as he had them in the buggy--just before he stepped in--probably out of fear of the storm, the horses bolted and took off in the blizzard. Hours and miles later, when he
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 31, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Under Or Above Circumstances
There is a story of a lady who was severely depressed by a series of disheartening events. When asked how she was weathering the storm of adversity, she answered, “Quite well, under the circumstances.” “Sister,” he replied kindly yet firmly, “you’ll never make it that
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 31, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE GRIZZLY AND THE SKUNK
Dale Carnegie once noted that there was only animal that the grizzly bear would allow to eat with him. That animal is the skunk. 
Grizzly bears in Yellowstone Park often come to eat at the place where garbage is dumped. This huge bear can fight and beat almost any animal
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I’m going to tell you a metaphoric story based upon a metaphor written by Silvia Hartmann.
There was a merchant ship at sea.  It was a beautiful day.  The sea was calm, the sun was warm, and the breeze was full and refreshing.  A nor’easter blows and a storm engulfs the ship.  The Captain looks to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Results of Spiritual Blindness.
On November 30, 1991 fierce winds from a freakish dust storm triggered a massive freeway pileup along Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California. At least 14 people died and dozens more were injured as topsoil whipped by 50 mile-per-hour winds reduced visibility to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Some people found a beautiful log house in Colorado that was high in the mountains. It had a beautiful view, and they had their heart set on buying it. They prayed about the house, but one thing after another went wrong. The timing was not right, their financing didn’t go through. They had prayed
                    
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                    Contributed by Kevin Mccarthy on Nov 12, 2007
                
                
                
                    Clingstone is a house that was built in 1905 on a peninsula in the Narraganset bay near Newport Rhode Island.  It was constructed with heavy mill type framing, It’s shingled inside and outside, and was designed to withstand hurricane force winds.  In 1938 a hurricane, dubbed the “long Island
                    
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                    Contributed by Et Tapper on Feb 9, 2009
                
                
                
                    I’m reminded of the story of two men who were walking through a field one day and spotted an enraged bull. Instantly, the darted toward the nearest fence. The storming bull followed in hot pursuit, and it was soon apparent that they wouldn’t make it. Terrified, one of the men shouted to the other,
                    
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