Adversity | Humor | Trial
WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG A young soldier was learning to parachute. He was given the following instructions: (A) Jump when you are told; (B) Count ten and pull the ripcord; […]
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Adversity
Adversity | Character | Health | Strength | Trial | Weakness
OVERCOMING CIRCUMSTANCES Bunyan wrote Pilgrim’s Progress from jail. Florence Nightingale, too ill to move from her bed, reorganized the hospitals of England. Semi-paralyzed and under the constant menace of apoplexy,
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Adversity | Frustration | Grief | Hope | Trial
AT THE END OF THE DARKNESS A young boy was traveling with his mother on a train. They were suddenly and unexpectedly whisked into a long dark tunnel. When the
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Adversity | Short Shorts
AUDITED BY THE IRS Robert Perlman of Intel says, “Playing host to the IRS is a delightful experience. It’s like being head-down in a hot tub.”
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Adversity | Burden | Care | Church | Edification | Encouragement | Fellowship
FELLOWSHIP IN SMALL GROUPS In the fall of the year, Linda, a young woman, was traveling alone up the rutted and rugged highway from Alberta to the Yukon. Linda didn’t
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Adversity | Art And Music | Commitment | Consecration | Courage | Obedience | Risk | Submission | Suffering | Trial
THE SINGING SALZBURGERS They lived in the 1700’s in Salzburg, Austria. In those days each geographical area was to have only one religious group. Salzburg was not Lutheran, yet a
Adversity | Busyness | Discouragement | Failure | Faith | Frustration | Sports | Trial | Worldliness
RUN WITH THE HORSES Every once in a while, when I get tired of living by faith, I drive twenty-five miles southwest to Memorial Stadium in Baltimore and watch the
Adversity | Art And Music | Faith | Obedience | Persecution | Protection | Providence | Suffering
FAITH TO TELL THE TRUTH Kim Duk-Soo will never forget November 20, 1950. That was the day Communist troops found him hiding with his father in a root cellar. Kim,
Adversity | Faith | Persecution | Prayer | Promise | Protection | Providence | Suffering
ANSWERED PRAYER This is about a man named Ioan Teodosiu who was arrested at his work place in Cluj- Napoca, Romania, in December, 1981 . . . the day after
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Adversity | Friendship | Short Shorts
WHEN FRIENDS COME True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. Theophrastus
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Adversity | Friendship | Honesty | Poetry | Truth
THE CANDID FRIEND Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet, perhaps return his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
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Adversity | Blessing | Humor | Money | Trial
FARMING — HARD TIMES Each of two farmers won a million dollars in the state lottery. When a reporter asked the first farmer what he was going to do with
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Adversity | Authority | Power | Sanctification/ Opportunity | Trial
HENRY FORD My heart went out to him now as I walked beside this energetic old man. What an enormous responsibility rested on those slight shoulders. His empire was made
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Adversity | Children | Humor | Perseverance | Perspective | Trial
IT’S ALL IN HOW YOU VIEW IT David, a second-grader, was bumped while getting on the school bus and suffered a two-inch cut on his cheek. At recess he collided
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Adversity | Endurance | Perseverance | Sports | Success | Trial
PERSISTENCE Someone asked James Corbett, the heavyweight boxing champion at the time, what it took to be a heavyweight champion, and he said, “Fight one more round?”When asked how he
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Adversity | Defeat | Fellowship With God | Friendship | Frustration | Trial
TALKING BACK TO GOD I ‘m sure when we’ve been in trouble, there are times we feel God is against us. St. Theresa, a 16th century reformer stood mired in
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Adversity | Faith | Humor | Pain | Patience | Trial
WHAT’S GOING ON HERE, ANYHOW? When you find yourself in the middle of really tough times — you cry out, like Job — “What’s going on here, anyway, God?” Farmer
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Adversity | Faith | Goodness | Trial | Trustworthy
EMOTIONALLY SEASICK A good thought from John Greenleaf Whittier to turn to when one feels emotionally and spiritually seasick: Yet in the maddening maze of things And tossed by storm
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Adversity | Death | Defeat | Grief | Hope | Resurrection
THE RESURRECTION CONSPIRACY “As the late E.B. White watched his wife, Katharine, planning the planting of bulbs in her garden in the last autumn of her life,” he wrote, “There
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Adversity | Courage | Defeat | Health | Hope | Perseverance
OUT OF DESPAIR G. F. Handel’s biographer described a time in his life when his health and his fortune had reached the lowest ebb. His right side had become paralyzed,
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