Adversity | Discipleship | Godliness | Short Shorts | Trial | Trials
GODLINESS SHINES The spirit of the godly rusts away unless they are well exercised by tribulations.
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Adversity
Adversity | Confidence | Pessimism | Pride | Problems | Short Shorts | Understanding
Confidence is simply the inner feeling you have before you really understand the problem.
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Adversity | Attributes of God | Children | Guidance | Miracles | Protection | Providence
MIRACLE UNDER THE HOOD Often the origins of a story can’t be traced. Such is this one which had been told to others and a nationwide TV audience by the
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Adversity | Perspective | Rescue | Salvation | Story | Suffering | Trial | Trials
SUFFERING’S SIGNAL The story is told of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island and in the days that followed, he painstakingly constructed a hut with the
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Adversity | Caution | Choice | Example | Safety | Security | Sin | Success | Wisdom
NEED THE HAND RAILS When the magnificent passenger ship the Queen Mary was built, its owners assumed it would be so stable that it would not require hand rails to
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Adversity | Honesty | Short Shorts | Trials | Truth
ADVERSITY & TRUTH Adversity is the path of truth. — Byron
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Accomplishments | Adversity | Character | Conflict | Stress | Success | Trial | Trials
CUCKOO CLOCK ACCOMPLISHMENTS In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare terror murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland
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Adversity | Determination | Discouragement | Failure | Failures | Perseverance | Persistence | Success
SEUSS SUCCESS For those who need encouragement, take heart and do not quit too soon. The first children’s book by Dr. Seuss was rejected by twenty-three publishers. The twenty-fourth publisher
Adversity | Bible | Bible Authority | Bible Study | Discipleship | Sanctification | Suffering | Trial | Trials
BIBLE & ADVERSITY The Word of God and adversity have a synergistic effect as God uses both of them together to bring about growth in our lives that neither the
Adversity | Assurance | Children | Christ | Church | Conflict | Foundations | Illustrations | Jesus | Power
DON’T KICK THE ROCK Gregory Elder tells that when he grew up on the Atlantic Coast, he spent long hours building intricate sand castles. He was continually confronted by bullies
Adversity | Attributes of God | Desire | Life | Omnipotence | Power | Purpose | Suffering | Trial | Understanding
UNDERSTANDING GOD’S WAYS G. Campbell Morgan, commenting on the death of James and the deliverance of Peter: “Life can never be perfectly understood in the process of living it; we
Adversity | Ideas | Leisure | Perspective | Relaxation | Stress | Time | Worry
HOW AMERICA HANDLES STRESS 75% turn on the TV. 66% listen to music 61% take a bath or hot shower. 55% of women clean house (vs. 20% of men). 54%
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Adversity | Assistance | Burden | Duty | Friendship | Love | Risk | Sacrifice
WE ALWAYS HELP EACH OTHER In 1953, two men, Sir Edmund Hillary, a beekeeper by trade; and also an explorer from New Zealand and his guide, a man named Norgay,
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Adversity | Communication | Conflict | Conflicts | Marriage | Time
MARRIAGE PROBLEMS Dr. Ray Mossholder wrote in his excellent book entitled Marriage Plus, “Ninety percent of the friction in marriage is caused by one of three things: — wrong timing;
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Adversity | Difficulty | Hope | Optimism | Peace | Perspective | Reasons | Violence
WHEN THINGS ARE BAD “When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought
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Adversity | Blindness | Light | Lost | Lostness | Miracles | Salvation | Sight
I CAN SEE! “I can see! I can see!” These were the first words from Jean Phillips after her twenty minute operation on October 24, 1996. She had lived sixty-six
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Adversity | Blessing | Blessings | Desire | Industry | Labor | Purpose | Short Shorts | Work
WORK IS NO CURSE Blest work, if ever thou wert a curse of God, what must His blessings be! — J. B. Selkirk
Adversity | Communication | Deceit | Deception | Excuses | Failure | Lies | Logic
TRAPD IN AN ESCALATOR This was the worst excuse yet! The man’s wife has heard some lame excuses in the past for his failure to return home at a reasonable
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Adversity | Attitude | Change | Growth | Humanity | Sanctification | Short Shorts | Transformation
WE ARE NOT TREES If you don’t like where you are, change it! You’re not a tree. — Jim Rohn
Accomplishments | Adversity | Death | Leadership | Perspective | Sin | Society | Vice
PROGRESSIVE DEMISE Speaking of our New York, remember, when civilization falls apart, we were way ahead of you. — David Letterman
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