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1. Fruit of the Spirit

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Donald Grey Barnhouse

Love is the key. Joy is love singing. Peace is love resting. Long-suffering is love enduring. Kindness is love's touch. Goodness is love's character. Faithfulness is love's habit. Gentleness is love's self-forgetfulness. Self-control is love holding the reins.

2. Just a Shadow

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Donald Grey Barnhouse

A widow was driving with the children to his wife's funeral where he was to preach the sermon. As they came into one small town there strode down in front of them a truck that came to stop before a red light. It was the biggest truck the man had ever seen in his life, and the sun was shining on it at just the right angle that took its shadow and spread it across the snow on the field beside it. A...

3. Launching A Glider Rather Than A Jet

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Donald Grey Barnhouse

To preach a social gospel without the redemptive background of the individual salvation from sin of the individual sinner is like launching a glider instead of a high-powered plane. A glider may soar for awhile on the fickle currents of the wind, and climb high on some sudden up-draft, but it is the four whirl-wind motors that will carry a bomber to the stratosphere and jet-propulsion and rockets ...

4. Sing on Pitch

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Donald Grey Barnhouse

Some years ago, musicians noted that errand boys in a certain part of London all whistled out of tune as they went about their work. It was talked about and someone suggested that it was because the bells of Westminster were slightly out of tune. Something had gone wrong with the chimes and they were discordant. The boys did not know there was anything wrong with the peals, and quite unconsciously...

5. The Mother Hen's Sacrifice

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Donald Grey Barnhouse

A farmer saw that a fire had ignited in his wheat fields, and was being blown toward his barns by the wind. To save the stored grain there, he lit a backfire, in hopes that it would impede the progress of the other flames. After both fires had subsided—and the barns had been saved—the farmer walked out through the smoldering ashes of the nearby fields. There he discovered the dead body of one of h...

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1. Fruit of the Spirit

Illustration

Donald Grey Barnhouse

2. Just a Shadow

Illustration

Donald Grey Barnhouse

3. Launching A Glider Rather Than A Jet

Illustration

Donald Grey Barnhouse

4. Sing on Pitch

Illustration

Donald Grey Barnhouse

5. The Mother Hen's Sacrifice

Illustration

Donald Grey Barnhouse

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