Adversity
During the Great Depression there was a man who lost his job, a fortune, his wife and home, but tenaciously held on to his faith – the only thing he […]
Adversity
Adversity | Bitterness | Dating | Gossip | Jealousy | Revenge | Speech
JEALOUSY Pangs of jealousy were in Miss Iceberg’s heart when she heard that her former admirer had proposed to Miss Lovewell. She happened to run across her in a bargain
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Adversity | Care | Concern | Encouragement | Peace | Trial | Unity
ADVERSITY Stopped by a policeman for driving without a taillight, the driver became quite distressed. “Don’t take it so hard,” consoled the officer, “it’s a minor offense.” “That’s not the
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Adversity | Apathy | Blessing | Care | Commitment | Courage | Edification | Fear | Life | Opportunity | Peace | Wisdom | Zeal
RISK To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to
Adversity | Authority | Commitment | Conviction | Courage | Desire | Endurance | Motivation | Perseverance | Rejection | Strength | Success | Trial | Zeal
REJECTION In a bit of whimsy, Neil Postman quotes a letter written by a high school senior who had received a letter of rejection from the college he wanted to
Adversity | Commitment | Conviction | Courage | Desire | Discipline | Endurance | Motivation | Opportunity | Perseverance | Rejection | Strength | Success | Trial | Trust
REJECT REJECTION Many of those who have risen from failure to real achievement have rejected the rejection of this world. In 1902, the poetry editor of The Atlantic Monthly returned
Adversity | Courage | Discouragement | Encouragement | Endurance | Failure | Healing | Motivation | Perseverance | Strength | Success | Trial | Weakness
OVERCOMING HARDSHIPS Rabbi Earl A. Grollman has a fine book on death and grieving, entitled Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970), in which
Adversity | Courage | Discouragement | Encouragement | Failure | Knowledge | Labor | Motivation | Opportunity | Success | Trust | Zeal
MORE IMPORTANT KNOWLEDGE A young man was being interviewed to be a pilot for a steamboat on the Mississippi River. The interviewer, doubtful that the young man could know the
Adversity | Apathy | Authority | Bible Authority | Conviction | Courage | Doubt | Encouragement | Evangelism | Faith | Motivation | Opportunity | Power | Revival | Satan | Strength | Success | Trust
IRONIC TWIST There is an old story that recalls how Satan once summoned his top demonic aides to plan strategy against the Church of Jesus Christ. Satan stood at the
Adversity | Assurance | Care | Comfort | Doubt | Election | Encouragement | Eternal Life | Eternal Security | Faith | Faithfulness | Father | Fear | Hope | Joy | Peace | Position | Protection | Rest | Strength | Success | Trial | Trust | Trustworthy | Worry
SAFE IN YOUR FATHER’S ARMS Several years ago my family of four lived on a farm with another family of four. We shared many sermon-illustration-type experiences and there’s nothing like
Adversity | Apostasy | Compromise | Death | Deceit | Evil | Fear | Health | Life | Lost | Love | Motivation | Protection | Risk | Warning
RASPUTIN A little bit of hell spilled over on the world because two people believed in a false prophet. In his brilliant book, Nicholas and Alexandra, Robert K. Massie tells
Adversity | Assurance | Commitment | Fear | Labor | Motivation | Opportunity | Wisdom | Zeal
CLEAR MOTIVATION People go to college for a variety of reasons, but Bob Kuechenberg, formerly of the Miami Dolphins, may have given the best reason yet in an interview with
Adversity | Anger | Comfort | Evangelism | Revenge | Success
IF HE JUST UNDERSTOOD Alice Lee Humphres, in her book Angels in Pinafores, tells about her experiences as a first grade teacher. She tells about one little girl who came
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Adversity | Commitment | Consecration | Courage | Discipline | Discouragement | Perseverance | Sports | Success | Suffering | Trial
EXERCISING HER OPTIONS Joni Dunn was an intermediate skier in 1972 when she skidded off a Vermont mountain trail. She plunged 100 feet into a deep ravine, fracturing her spine
Adversity | Burden | Commitment | Courage | Discouragement | Excuses | Failure | Fear | Health | Service | Success | Trial
SEARCH ME — I DARE YOU In the July 19, 1948, edition of Time magazine, under the heading of “National Affairs,” under the subheading of “Heros” — a heroine: A
Adversity | Courage | Discipline | Discouragement | Excuses | Failure | Perseverance | Strength | Success | Trial | Zeal
NO IRON LUNG The following is from Robert Schuller’s book Move Ahead With Possibility Thinking, (pp. 39, 40): A polio victim who required an iron lung to breathe learned to
Adversity | Courage | Discipline | Discouragement | Excuses | Health | Perseverance | Strength | Success | Trial
HANDICAP’S TRIUMPHS John Bartel was a healthy, athletic twenty-year-old young man and gradually taking full charge of the family dairy farm with all its multiple duties. It was a beautiful
Adversity | Commitment | Courage | Discouragement | Excuses | Sports | Strength | Success | Trial
SPORTING OBSTACLES On Nov 8th, 1970, there was a hard fought game between the New Orleans Saints and the Detroit Lions. The game was nip and tuck and it came
Adversity | Discipleship | Evangelism | Sanctification/ Courage | Strength | Success
IGNORING HANDICAPS In a small town in the Midwest where I spent six years of my early youth, there lived a mentally retarded adult named Myron. It was during depression
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Adversity | Courage | Excuses | Opportunity | Perseverance | Strength | Success | Trial
WHAT DO YOU WALK ON? When William Pitt was prime minister of Great Britain, he moved about painfully on crutches. A man came to him one day complaining that he
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