Contributed by Richard Goble on Mar 20, 2008
Tom Dooley was a young doctor who organized hospitals, raised money, and literally poured out his life in the service of the afflicted peoples of Southeast Asia. Here was a man whose deep relationship with God motivated him to abandon a soft career in the United States for a desperately difficult
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jan 18, 2007
If every religion of the world was simply a set of philosophical reasonings with no basis in relationship to a living God then their statements that all religions are equal in value and validity would make sense. Different groups and cultures of people would only have to agree to disagree on the
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THE FERN AND BAMBOO STORY
One day I decided to quit...I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality... I wanted to quit my life. I went to the woods to have one last talk with God. "God", I said. "Can you give me one good reason not to quit?"
His answer surprised me..."Look around", He
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), former president of Harvard University, had a birthmark on his face that bothered him greatly. As a young man, he was told that surgeons could do nothing to remove it. Someone described that moment as “the dark hour of his soul.”
Eliot’s mother gave him this
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
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The gods had given me almost everything. But I let myself be lured into long spells of senseless and sensual ease...Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in search for new sensation. What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
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Throughout his administration, Abraham Lincoln was a president under fire, especially during the scarring years of the Civil War. And though he knew he would make errors of office, he resolved never to compromise his integrity. So strong was this resolve that he once said, “I desire so to conduct
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
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A man consulted a doctor, “I’ve been misbehaving, Doc, and my conscience is troubling me,” he complained.
“And you want something that will strengthen your willpower?” asked the doctor.
“Well, no,” said the fellow. “I was thinking of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2005
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An old woodsman gives this advice about catching a porcupine: “Watch for the slapping tail as you dash in and drop a large washtub over him. The washtub will give you something to sit on
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