... it shall lose it. Suffering and pain are integral to life's experience but they need not humiliate, defeat, and destroy us! A Detroit News article some years ago carried the story of Kirk Gibson during his glory days with the Tigers. Few really knew the price of pain and agony paid by Gibson for that glory. According to the article, Kirk Gibson is a baseball player who knows how to live with pain. In 1980, he tore the cartilage in his wrist. Two years later, he had a sore left knee, a strained left calf ...
2. Living With the Pain
Matthew 10:1-42
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
Suffering and pain are integral to life's experience but they need not humiliate, defeat, and destroy us! A Detroit News article some years ago carried the story of Kirk Gibson during his glory days with the Tigers. Few really knew the price of pain and agony paid by Gibson for that glory. According to the article, Kirk Gibson is a baseball player who knows how to live with pain. In 1980, he tore the cartilage in his wrist. Two years later, he had a sore left knee, a strained left calf muscle, and a severe ...
... a humiliating defeat at the hands of the forces of England. It was the Battle of Culloden. If you have seen Mel Gibson's movie, Braveheart, you will remember the era. Not satisfied with driving away Bonnie Prince Charlie and killing many Scots and bringing ... forbade the Scots from worshiping in their traditional Presbyterian ways at their local church buildings, which the people of Scotland called "kirks." A new law was passed declaring that any Scot found wearing a kilt would summarily be put to death. It ...
