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Showing 1551 to 1575 of 1964 results

1551. You're Twice Mine

Illustration

Tom carried his new toy boat to the edge of the river. He carefully placed it in the water and slowly let out the string. How smoothly the boat sailed! Tom sat in the warm sunshine, admiring the little boat that he had built. Suddenly a strong current caught the boat. Tom tried to pull it back to shore, but the string broke. The little boat raced downstream. Tom ran along the sandy shore as fast as he could. But his little boat soon slipped ...

1552. Paralyzed by Pleasure

Illustration

Staff

... John's constant companion, a St. Bernard, one of a long line of dogs famous for their heroics in times of crisis. "If that dog hadn't been with me, I'd be dead today," John Elliott says. "When you're freezing to death you actually feel warm all over, and don't wake up because it feels too good." This moving story illustrates the spiritual condition of many people today. They are cold spiritually, and sadly are oblivious of their true condition. Thank God for all the ways in which He arouses such sleepers ...

1553. Social Gospel: Give Them Shelter

Illustration

W. Wiersbe

... talk about the Poor Law program, General Booth waved a hand and said, "Go and do something! We must do something!" "What can we do?" "Get them a shelter!" "That will cost money," replied Bramwell. "Well, that is your affair. Something must be done. Get hold of a warehouse and warm it, and find something to cover them. But mind, Bramwell, no coddling!" That was the beginning of Salvation Army shelters.

1554. A Life Without Clouds

Psalm 30:5

Illustration

Staff

... the east. Each noon it shines brightly overhead, and every evening it brings a picturesque sunset. Although storms are often seen rising high in the mountains, and heavy fog banks stretch their gray curtains far over the sea, Old Sol continues to shed his warming rays upon this "favored" and protected strip of territory. One might imagine this area to be an earthly paradise, but is far from that! It is a sterile and desolate wilderness! There are no streams of water, and nothing grows there. We often long ...

1555. Twain's Christmas Wish

Illustration

Staff

Mark Twain was once asked to record a Christmas message on an early gramophone. This is what he said, "It is my heart-warm and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, and admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage every man and woman of us all throughout the whole earth may eventually be gathered in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone."

1556. A Striking Encounter with Wildlife

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

... fangs got snagged in the neck of Rathman's wool turtleneck sweater, and the force of the strike caused it to land on his left shoulder. It then coiled around his neck. He grabbed it behind the head with his left hand and could feel the warm venom running down the skin of his neck, the rattles making a furious racket. He fell backward and slid headfirst down the steep slope through brush and lava rocks, his rifle and binoculars bouncing beside him. "As luck would have it," he said in describing the incident ...

1557. Flying Without a Net

Illustration

Staff

... a great forest fire. Smoke at the scene hampered him and he asked his home office to hire a plane. Arrangements were made and he was told to go at once to a nearby airport, where the plane would be waiting. When he arrived at the airport, a plane was warming up near the runway. He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, "Let's go! Let's go!" The pilot swung the plane into the wind and they soon were in the air. "Fly over the north side of the fire," yelled the photographer, "and make three or four low ...

1558. How Big of a Risk Would You Take?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... a story that author Mike Barrett tells. Mike is a dedicated surfer. In his book The Danger Habit Mike tells of taking his six-year-old son, Caleb, surfing for the first time. After months of planning the trip and talking to Caleb about how to surf, and how warm the water is in Hawaii, and how "cool" surfers are in Hawaii, Mike and his son rented a long board off the beach in Waikiki and walked into the water. They started by lying together on the deck of the ten-foot-long board and paddling out one hundred ...

1559. An Insecure Nose

Humor Illustration

... --big, bulbous, and red-veined. Prior to the dinner, Wheelwright coached his young daughter by telling her, "Don't say anything about his nose. Don't stare at his nose. Don't even mention the word 'nose.''" The evening went smoothly, and Morgan was warm and friendly. When the butler served the dessert and coffee, Wheelwright's daughter, looking adorable in her party dress, picked up the sterling-silver sugar and creamer tray, went up to Morgan, and in the cutest little voice you ever heard said, "Mr. Morgan ...

1560. Grape Juice Dilemma

Illustration

Willard Scott

Willard Scott, the irrepressible weatherman on the TODAY program on television wrote a book entitled The Joy of Living. A very appealing part of that book is his warm description of growing up in a Baptist church. He tells how on one occasion when he was twelve years old, he took communion and had a most embarrassing thing happen to him. He describes it like this: "In the Baptist church, they serve grape juice rather than wine, in tiny ...

1561. Who Shall Rise First?

Humor Illustration

The old Baptist preacher was warming to his subject about the advantageous position of Baptists in the scheme of things connected to the hereafter. "Now who is going to be the first into heaven?" he asked rhetorically. "I'll tell you who is going to be first. It is going to be the Baptists." A visiting ...

1562. I Applaud Your Nerve

Humor Illustration

The squeaky tenor had just concluded. The applause was less than warm. But one member of the audience was exclaiming, "Extraordinary! Wonderful! Unbelievable!" "Pardon me," said a puzzled man sitting in the next seat."You astound me. I think I may claim some knowledge of the subject, and I think his voice was very poor." "Voice?" said the other man. "I wasn't thinking of his voice. I was praising his nerve!"

1563. Forgetful Funeral

Illustration

Bruce McIver

... began to laugh. Soon, the whole church began to laugh. And finally, the pastor himself began to laugh. And nobody ever found out what happened on the isle of Patmos. Now, that's a human moment. Mistakes aught to bring us more often to the precipice of our humanity and warm our hearts.

1564. Should I Know You?

Humor Illustration

... town in Maine, where they could relax without people recognizing them. When they arrived, it was raining so they decided to go see a movie. When they entered the theatre, the house lights were on and they were surprised that the small handful of people gave them a warm little round of applause as they took a seat. Secretly pleased, Shula whispered to his wife, "I guess there isn't any place I'm not known." A man came over with a friendly smile and shook hands with Shula and his wife. "I'm surprised that you ...

1565. One Hot Wedding

Humor Illustration

The day was unseasonably warm when my husband and I got married and, to make matters worse, the air conditioning in the church wasn't working. Becoming increasingly uncomfortable in my gown, I grumbled during the photo session, then endured the receiving line, cutting the cake, even opening the presents. But when I saw the ...

1566. The Missionary Exam

Illustration

Brian L. Harbour

... meeting the next day, the examiner spoke highly of the applicant. He said, "He has all the qualifications of a missionary, as I discovered in my test. First, I tested him on self-denial. I told him to be at the office at 3:00 a.m. He left his warm bed and came out in the cold without a word of complaint. Then, I examined him on patience. I made him wait five hours to see me. I tested on temper. He failed to show any sign of it. He did not complain and did not question my delay. Finally ...

1567. The Four Sacred Chords of Home

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... costly. A broken heart is the price of love. But as Daniel O’Leary reminds us, "Loving someone wraps invisible blankets of blessing around both people." Sometimes the wrap is the gift. Home is where we are constantly wrapping gifts, blankets of blessing that keep us warm in a very cold world and in the wintry seasons of life. Faith, Hope, Forgiveness, Love: The Four Sacred Chords of Home that the Christmas story strikes in every one of us. What if “home” is fundamentally more than a place we go, but a ...

1568. The Four Scents of Adventing

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the simple pleasures that life can bring. You’ll be amazed at how quickly joy will join the conversation. 4) The S[c]ent of Love Scentness: The scent of love: The blending of dirty diapers and baby powder, selflessly applied to a newborn infant. The warm embrace of mother and child, lingering under a shady tree, enjoying a few stolen moments of rest, experiencing an intimacy that the Father longs for us to know through Christ. As Jesus says, ‘Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life ...

1569. Christmas Light: His Name Is Jesus

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Illustration

Walter W. Harms

... present-less will still be there. The many lights do not make us any more cheerful as we struggle to be nice to the family members we really don't like or agree with, as we try to balance gift giving with credit card paying, as we want to provide warm homes and the tax bills need to be paid before the credit card bills arrive. If we put on more lights at this time of year to cheer us and get us in the proper spirit to empty our wallets and max out our credit cards (if not there already ...

1570. The Unwanted Christmas Gift: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... quickly closed by the state police. Some Good Samaritans saw our plight, and volunteered to give us the keys to a neighbor’s home that had emptied out for the holidays. Even though power outages made the house very cold, we kept warm huddling around the fireplace and celebrated Christmas with hugs and canned tuna.] There are Christmases when gifts and good graces flooded in. You don’t remember those. Then there are the Christmases you remember . . . when flood waters brought neighbors into your living ...

1571. No Time for a Sermon

Hebrews 1:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... .Sometimes it comes at a moment when the postman brings us word from a person or incident in the almost forgotten past, or when we begin to think of other Christmases in other places. An open invitation to its coming is when a child cuddles close and warm in the evening.And, with the moment comes the realization that fossil fuel is not the only item in short supply on the American scene. It is in this moment that the bells ring loud and clear in our hearts that Christmas is people needing people, people ...

1572. I Am Baptized!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... for the young people who were being baptized. He says he himself was shaking as he looked up at the baptismal candidates gathered in their thin, little white robes at the top of the ladder. They were excited. He warned them that the water wasn’t all that warm. Later, he says, as each descended into the pool, their little eyes bugged out, they became stiff as boards, and he had a rather difficult time getting them to bend enough to get them under the water. The girls took it well, but the boy was more ...

1573. It Might Have Been

Illustration

King Duncan

... of his gentleness and integrity. She could leave the fields behind and live as the wife of a wealthy and powerful man. At the same time, the Judge is attracted to Maud. He is tired of his career, and he dreams of marrying a warm, compassionate woman like Maud and settling into a simpler life in the country. But neither Maud nor the Judge acknowledges their attraction to one another. They are from different social classes - they cannot risk breaking the bonds of social conformity. Maud later marries a ...

1574. Living in the Magical City of Our Dreams

Luke 2:22-40

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... . It looked strangely familiar and much smaller than he had imagined it would be. As he entered the village, so the story goes, he discovered a street very much like his own, knocked on the door of a house exactly like the one he had left, and was warmly received by his family inside his family, of course. With that the man lived happily ever after in the magical city of his dreams! The point of that is, rather than transporting us from the problems of this life into some spiritual Eden, the favor of God is ...

1575. Yada, Yada, Yada

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... Over and over again . . . blah, blah, blah, love . . . blah, blah, blah, love . . .” “God the Creator . . . I love you and give you life. “God the Redeemer . . . I love you and embrace you in that love forever. “God the Spirit . . . I love you and warm your heart and your soul with my love. “Blah, blah, blah love . . .” (2) I wish that is what the people heard that day when the voice spoke from heaven, “Yada, yada, yada love . . . .” But Mark described it like this: “The crowd that was ...

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1551. You're Twice Mine

Illustration

1552. Paralyzed by Pleasure

Illustration

Staff

1553. Social Gospel: Give Them Shelter

Illustration

W. Wiersbe

1554. A Life Without Clouds

Psalm 30:5

Illustration

Staff

1555. Twain's Christmas Wish

Illustration

Staff

1556. A Striking Encounter with Wildlife

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

1557. Flying Without a Net

Illustration

Staff

1558. How Big of a Risk Would You Take?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

1559. An Insecure Nose

Humor Illustration

1560. Grape Juice Dilemma

Illustration

Willard Scott

1561. Who Shall Rise First?

Humor Illustration

1562. I Applaud Your Nerve

Humor Illustration

1563. Forgetful Funeral

Illustration

Bruce McIver

1564. Should I Know You?

Humor Illustration

1565. One Hot Wedding

Humor Illustration

1566. The Missionary Exam

Illustration

Brian L. Harbour

1567. The Four Sacred Chords of Home

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1568. The Four Scents of Adventing

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1569. Christmas Light: His Name Is Jesus

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Illustration

Walter W. Harms

1570. The Unwanted Christmas Gift: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1571. No Time for a Sermon

Hebrews 1:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1572. I Am Baptized!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

1573. It Might Have Been

Illustration

King Duncan

1574. Living in the Magical City of Our Dreams

Luke 2:22-40

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

1575. Yada, Yada, Yada

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

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