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Forgiveness / Reconcilliation

Mitsuo Fuchida flew the lead plane and led of the attack against Pearl Harbor. He was the sole survivor of the seven commanders and squadron leaders he led. Among his adventures were six crashes at...

Lust

Experts agree with disgraced evangelist Jimmy Swaggart - pornography is addictive. And, incredibly, it was Swaggart's own addiction to smut that led to his downfall - just as in others, it has led to ...

Faith

Oswald Chambers once wrote, "Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading." ...

Urgency, Speed

A New York boy was being led through the swamps of Louisiana by his cousin. The city boy asked, "Is it true that an alligator won't attack you if you carry a flashlight?"...

Illustration: Urgency, Speed

A New York boy was being led through the swamps of Louisiana by his cousin. The city boy asked, "Is it true that an alligator won't attack you if you carry a flashlight?"...

Criticism

A woman walked into the huge mega church. The friendly usher greeted her at the door and led her up the flight of steps. “Where would you like to sit?" he asked politely. "The front row please," sh...

Extravagance

Early this year the Asheville, North Carolina Times carried the remarkable story of couple who fly all over the country putting on special events for dogs. They do dog weddings. They do dog bar mitzva...

Worship

President Theodore Roosevelt was known to go to church and sing the hymns louder than anyone else. This led to a story that made the rounds during his administrations. Recorded by Paul Boller Jr., ...

Sin's Penalty - Separation From God

Feel the Darkness Some years ago my family visited a cave in the state of Kentucky. The guide led us through many beautiful and winding subterranean passageways. Suddenly he turned off all the lights ...

Sermon Illustration: Judgment

This story appeared in the May 10, 2010, edition of the "Turning Point Daily Devotional": Recently a young man in suburban Chicago tried to escape during his trial, as he'd seen done many times on tel...

Earthly Riches - Deceptive

We often put our affection of stuff that has a price tag. I read recently about an old, rich man with a cranky, miserable attitude who visited a Rabbi. The Rabbi was a simple man whose heart was right...

Mysteries Of Providence

The hymn "God Moves in a Mysterious Way" has been a source of great comfort and blessing to many of God's people since William Cowper wrote it in the 18th century. Yet few people know of the unusua...

Illustration: Death

Children have an amazing capacity to wonder about the obvious....

To Illustrate: Prayer

News reports have introduced us to a church choir director named Rocky, who wants to bring down gas prices through prayer. ...

Illustration: Will Power, Self-Control

A woman in our diet club was lamenting that she had gained weight....

Sacrifice

In the fifteenth century, the Aztec people practiced human sacrifice on an unprecedented scale. They believed that human sacrifices were necessary to fuel the sun, and without such sacrifices the f...

Trials

I've always been amazed at how our sovereign God can turn tragedy into triumph. Take the case of John and Reve Walsh, In July of 1981, their little boy Adam, 6 years old, was abducted from a nearby Se...

Encouragements To Prayer

Many times we miss the victory or the greater blessing because we do not continue long enough in prayer. Admiral Peary was victorious in his quest for the North Pole only because he was persistent. He...

Faithful Servants

General Eisenhower once rebuked one of his Generals for referring to a soldier as "just a Private." He reminded him that the Army could function better without its Generals, than it could without its ...