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Hearing

Seems an elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to ...

Illustration: Different Approaches

A veterinarian was feeling ill and went to see her doctor. The doctor asked her all the usual questions: What are your symptoms? How long have they been occurring? Etcetera. Finally the vet interrupt...

No Fear, if We Know the Master

A sick man turned to his doctor as he was preparing to leave the examination room and said, "Doctor, I am afraid to die. Tell me what lies on the other side." Very quietly, the doctor said, "I don't k...

Discouragement

In 1835 a man visited a doctor in Florence, Italy. He was filled with anxiety and exhausted from lack of sleep. He couldn't eat, and he avoided his friends. The doctor examined him and found that he w...

Spirit-Filled People

God-filled people come in many shapes and disguises. During preparation for one of our evangelistic crusades in Latin America some years ago, a very poor, shoeless, unshaven man attended one of our we...

Alcohol

The famous general Stonewall Jackson avoided alcohol. Once when he was very ill and the weather was bad, his doctor persuaded him to take some brandy. Jackson was reluctant. "Don't you like it?" asked...

Negotiation

"Mr. Clark, I'm afraid I have bad news," the doctor told his anxious patient. "You only have six months to live."The man sat in stunned silence for the next several minutes. Regaining his composure, h...

Illustration: Heart

Getting to the heart of the matter......

Illustration: Timing, Late

Bob had this problem of getting up late in the morning and was always late for work....

Love

An evangelist wrote about a wise physician who told a young doctor, "I've been practicing medicine for a long time. I've prescribed many things. But in the long run, I've learned that the best medicin...

Illustration: Stretching the Truth

A well-respected surgeon was relaxing on his sofa one evening just after arriving home from work. As he was tuning into the evening news, the phone rang. The doctor calmly answered it and heard the fa...

Materialism

Adrian Rogers tells a story about a man who loved gold. Then he inherited a fortune. With joy he redecorated his bedroom. He put gold parchment wallpaper up, hung yellow curtains, had a golden colored...

Illustration: Gratitude, Generosity

Stinginess really is not a very becoming quality in anyone--especially when we owe the debt of a saved life....

Service

A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office. After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He said, "Your husband is suffering from a major disease, complicated by gr...

Life And Eternity

A woman in Florida had a malignant tumor in the facial area. Her physician told her that the only available treatments would cause much pain and some disfigurement. The treatments did not offer a cure...

Marriage And Service

A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office. After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He said, "Your husband is suffering from a very severe disease, combined wi...

Illustration: Confusion

A pediatrician in town always plays a game with some of his young patients to put them at ease and test their knowledge of body parts. ...

Illustration: Health, Physicians

We get what we think we deserve....

Age Happens

A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor instead of by the police. Middle age is having a choice of two temptations and choosing the one that will get you home earl...

Spiritual Blindness

Unnecessarily Blind A woman named Rose Crawford had been blind for 50 years. "I just can't believe it!" she gasped as the doctor lifted the bandages from her eyes after her recovery from delicate surg...