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1. Broken: Laughing Through the Pain

James 1:20

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Warren W. Wiersbe

Will Rogers was known for his laughter, but he also knew how to weep. One day he was entertaining at the Milton H. Berry Institute in Los Angeles, a hospital that specialized in rehabilitating polio victims and people with broken backs and other extreme physical handicaps. Of course, Rogers had everybody laughing, even patients in really bad condition; but then he suddenly left the platform and we...

2. Guess Who?

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Warren W. Wiersbe

Wanted By: the FDA for turning water into wine without a license, the EPA for killing fig trees, the AMA for practicing medicine without a license, the Dept. of Health for asking people to open graves, for raising the dead and for feeding 5,000 people in the wilderness, the NEA for teaching without a certificate, OSHA for walking on water without a lifejacket and for flying without an airplane, t...

3. Hope From the Grave

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Warren W. Wiersbe

While waiting in a cemetery to conduct a funeral service, Charles Simeon walked among the graves, looking at the epitaphs. He found one that arrested him. When from the dust of death I rise, To claim my mansion in the skies, E'en then shall this be all my plea "Jesus hath lived and died for me." He was so impressed with that gospel message that he looked for someone in the cemetery with whom he ...

4. Last Words: More Alive Than Ever

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Warren W. Wiersbe

"Someday," D.L. Moody used to say, "you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield is dead. Don't believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now!" He preached his last sermon in Kansas City on Nov 23, 1899, from the text Luke 14:18: "And they all with one consent began to make excuse." When he gave the invitation, fifty stood to their feet and went across ...

5. Mountain Top Experiences

Mark 9:2-13

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Warren W. Wiersbe

A man once testified in one of D.L. Moody's meetings that he had lived "on the Mount of Transfiguration" for five years. "How many souls did you lead to Christ last year?" Moody bluntly asked him. "Well," the man hesitated, "I don't know." "Have you saved any?" Moody persisted. "I don't know that I have," the man admitted. "Well," said Moody, "we don't want that kind of mountaintop experience. Whe...

6. Plucked From the Fire

Zechariah 3:2; Amos 4:11

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Warren W. Wiersbe

John Wesley's father, Samuel, was a dedicated pastor, but there were those in his parish who did not like him. On February 9, 1709, a fire broke out in the rectory at Epworth, possibly set by one of the rector's enemies. Young John, not yet six years old, was stranded on an upper floor of the building. Two neighbors rescued the lad just seconds before the roof crashed in. One neighbor stood on the...

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1. Broken: Laughing Through the Pain

James 1:20

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Warren W. Wiersbe

2. Guess Who?

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Warren W. Wiersbe

3. Hope From the Grave

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Warren W. Wiersbe

4. Last Words: More Alive Than Ever

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Warren W. Wiersbe

5. Mountain Top Experiences

Mark 9:2-13

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Warren W. Wiersbe

6. Plucked From the Fire

Zechariah 3:2; Amos 4:11

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Warren W. Wiersbe

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