Contributed by Bo Dunford on Jan 21, 2009
*I read a story of a soldier in WWI who was so distraught with the war that he deserted!
* Tried to find his way to the coast so he could catch a boat, make his way back home to England.
* In the darkness of the night he stumbled on a road sign. * It was so dark and he was so lost, he
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TOM WHITE'S STORY
Sometimes there are great revelations that come out of our storms. Let me tell you about a man named Tom White.
In the 1970’s when America was full of protest marches and flower power, stories began coming out of Castro’s Cuba of terrible torture and imprisonment of Christians
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Contributed by Bruce Ball on Jun 25, 2005
Another man wrote a book on how to catch fish. The book was an instant best seller. In a matter of weeks, the man was scheduled to talk about fishing on all the talk shows, and he was kept constantly busy with personal appearances and book signings. Over the next few years, he had taught just
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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We’ve all heard this maxim, particularly in the Christian community. No Robert Frank, a Cornell University economics professor, is trying to prove it quantitatively in his new book luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess. Yacht makers are so backlogged that used boats sell for
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Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Jul 28, 2002
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“As soon as children are old enough to speak, one of the first questions parents ask is, “How big are you?” Children seem to always give the same answer, “I’m soooo big!” They generally raise their hands to get additional stature, as if to say, “I’m huge. I’m enormous. There’s no telling how big I
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 30, 2004
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Jesus stressed the positive effect we can have on others when He said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16 RSV).
But if sin dims our testimony so that our “light” is no longer visible,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
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I once heard the late Dr. F.E. Marsh tell that on one occasion he was preaching on this question and urging upon his hearers the importance of confession of sin and wherever possible of restitution for wrong done to others.
At the close a young man, a member of the church, came up to him with a
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THE LIFEBOAT STATION
, by Theodore Wedel
On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur there was once a crude little lifesaving station. The building was just a hut, and there was only one boat, but the few devoted members kept a constant watch over the sea, and with no thought for
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 28, 2004
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Becky Pippert tells a wonderful story, an old legend really or three trees that make this very clear for me. “There were once 3 ambitious trees on a mountain who were small and were talking about what they wanted to be when they grew up. The 1st tree said, "When I look at the stars and see them
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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John McArthur-Grace to You-The Life Saving Station
On a dangerous sea coast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut and had only one boat, but the few devoted members kept a constant watch over the sea. With no thought for
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 16, 2008
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No Greater Love
During the beginning of World War II, a large British military force on the European continent, as well as English citizens and diplomats, retreated to a French coastal port of Dunkirk.
With it’s back against the English Channel, the British army faced a German army that threatened
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jun 27, 2005
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A group of men were carrying on a friendly conversation. One of them remarked that he had learned to be especially careful about small things. “Would you believe,” he said, “that a little thing like a pair of socks changed the entire course of my life?”
“I can hardly believe that,” replied another
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We need to look at storms and painful scenarios in a different light. Possibly God’s light? Wirt helps us to see through a difference lens in his book Jesus Man of Joy.Sherwood Wirt has this to say about the positive side of pain:
Pain does have this positive value. It will bring to halt our
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