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HOPE CROP Hope is the only crop that can grow in any climate.

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WATCHING EVERY STEP The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver

Adversity | Desire | Discipleship | Prayer | Suffering | Trials

PRAY FOR A STRONGER BACK Do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. — Phillip Brooks

Adversity | Grace | Ministry | Power | Servanthood | Success | Trials | Victory

PORTIONS OF GRACE If God wants you to do something, he’ll make it possible for you to do it, but the grace he provides comes only with the task and

Adversity | Bible Authority | Last Days | Prophecy | Revival | Second Coming | Trial

TWO STREAMS IN PROPHECY There are two streams in prophetic scripture. One leads us to understand that as we approach the latter days and the second coming of Christ, things

Adversity | Attributes of God | Christ | Godliness | Maturity | Purity | Sanctification | Spirituality | Trial | Trials

PURIFIED SILVER Some time ago, a few ladies met in a certain city to read the scriptures, and make them the subject of conversation. While reading the third chapter of

Adversity | Discipleship | Fellowship with God | Hardships | Life | Pain | Sanctification | Suffering | Trial | Trials | Troubles

HUMMINGBIRD LESSONS “Into everyone’s life some rain must fall,” so the song goes. How many sermons have I preached on what it means to live rain-lashed lives? How many times

Adversity | Assistance | Care | Communication | Guidance | Help | Humor | Relevance

CORRECT BUT USELESS ANSWER A helicopter was flying above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled the aircraft’s electronic navigation and communications equipment. Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot

Accomplishments | Adversity | Art and Music | Craftsmanship | Handicaps | Labor | Music | Opportunity | Perseverance | Success

UKULELE MASTERS NEVER HEARD A NOTE They’ve never actually heard a ukulele but Jose Hipolito, Jr. and Kenneth McFeeley of Honolulu sure knew how to make them. The two hearing-impaired

Adversity | Children | Competition | Handicaps | Health | Opportunity | Perspective | Understanding

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE A lesson in “heart” is my little, ten-year-old daughter, Sarah, who was born with a muscle missing in her foot and wears a brace all the time. She

Adversity | Children | Compassion | Handicaps | Health | Love | Perfection | Sanctification | Sports | Unity | Value

SHAYA’S GRAND SLAM In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to learning-disabled children. Some children remain in Chush for their entire school career, while others can be

Adversity | Failure | Humor | Proverbs | Quips | Wisdom | Youth

SHORT SHOTS Stupidity got us into this mess–why can’t it get us out? Melinda Hodgin

Adversity | Comfort | Courage | Fellowship | Fellowship with God | Healing | Health | Intimacy | Story

TOUCHING STRANGERS This is a heart-warming story, but you may need to adapt it to your particular situation(s): Yitzak was a survivor. Liberated from a concentration camp in 1945, he

Adversity | Cooperation | Fellowship | Leadership | Success | Teamwork | Unity

WE ALL MUST FINISH I read not long ago about an Air Force pilot who said that the obstacle course in basic training changed his life. On his first attempt

Adversity | Character | Difficulties | Perspective | Purity | Short Shorts | Trial | Trials | Troubles | Virtues

HOW WE MEET TRIALS Nothing shows more accurately what we are, than the way we meet trials and difficulties. Source unknown

Adversity | Attitude | Choice | Communications | Life | Opportunity | Relationships | Short Shorts | Wisdom

PRACTICAL PROVERBS Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you respond to it.

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PRACTICAL PROVERBS Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond