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Trampled Fragrance and Niemoller’s Discovery
True Forgiveness: 1. A little boy, being asked what forgiveness is, gave the beautiful answer: “It is the odor that flowers breathe when they are trampled upon.” 2. After languishing for months in Hitler’s prison Martin Niemoller emerged saying, “It … Continue reading →
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Inability To Think
In a recent chapel service bulletin from Chaplain Wendell C. Hawley, comes a classic illustration of forgiveness. When the Moravian missionaries first went to the Eskimos, they could not find a word in their language for forgiveness, so they had … Continue reading →
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Look Out
There was a prudent man who brushed his teeth twice a day, wore rubbers in wet weather, did his daily dozen, slept with windows open, was careful with his diet, had a medical examination twice a year, never smoked, drank … Continue reading →
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Fixing What Others Break
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. – Deuteronomy 18:15. While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a … Continue reading →
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Not Notifying The Cook
In 1939, in Hitler’s Germany, Alexander Kirk was in charge of the American embassy in Berlin, and George Kennan was his counselor. Although food shortages made it difficult, Kirk gave an enormous buffet lunch every Sunday. There were perhaps a … Continue reading →
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Showing Friendship Now In Funeral
A man of 69 in a small town in Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan invited about 20 business friends to his home and held his “funeral.” Ritually, it was a full-dress funeral, complete with funeral sutra chanting by two Buddhist priests. … Continue reading →
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Pastor Watches Own Funeral
Fort Lauderdale, Florida (AP)—The Rev. Ivory W. Mizell commemorated his 64th birthday by watching his own funeral. “I think it was good. It was much better than I expected,” he said after Wednesday night’s service at the First Baptist Church … Continue reading →
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High Oratory Reaches Satan
Many years ago the famous radio preacher, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, N.Y., addressed a great men’s meeting in Center Congregational Church, New Britain, Conn. The pastor, Theodore A. Greene, introduced the celebrated cleric with a sudden burst of … Continue reading →
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Also Regions Beyond
At one interdenominational meeting, a minister from the same denomination as the speaker made the introduction. Eager to impress the audience with the speaker’s qualifications, he said, “Our speaker is known in the churches of our denomination throughout the world—and … Continue reading →
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A Black Heart?
Sam Jones, the great white evangelist, on one occasion preached a sermon to an immense concourse of colored people. After he had finished, a stout old colored woman waddled up to him, seized his hand, and pumped it up and … Continue reading →
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Buy a Gardenia, Feel Important
Eternity magazine once told of a sidewalk flower vendor who was doing very little business. Suddenly a happy thought struck him, and he put up this sign: “Buy a gardenia; it will make you feel important all day long!” Almost … Continue reading →
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Black Swallower
Consider the small, blackish deep-sea fish popularly known as the “black swallower.” It sometimes swallows fish much larger than itself. Some have been caught distended with fish inside them two or three times their own size. Their stomach, mouth and … Continue reading →
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Teeming Sea Life
The seas are home to teeming forms of abundant life, from microscopic floating plants to the largest mammal—the whale, which can weigh over one hundred tons. Among its dwellers are over 40,000 species of mollusks and over 20,000 kinds of … Continue reading →
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No Partition Wall For Whitefield
*Pastor’s Note: When I was searching for illustrations for this Food For Thought, I came across this illustration concerning one of my favorite classic Preachers, George Whitefield. I had to add it here for the same principle abides in my … Continue reading →
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Doing Something About It
Two strangers attended the same church for several Sundays. None spoke to them. One said, “I will give this church one more chance. If nobody speaks to me next Sunday, I’ll never go there again.” The other said, “I don’t … Continue reading →
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A Peek At Early Christians
The late great theologian, pastor, and teacher Harry A. Ironside once used the following illustration in one of his sermons: When Pliny was governor of Bithynia, he wrote a most interesting letter to the Roman Emperor Trajan, asking why Christians … Continue reading →
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Blest Be The Ties That Bind
In 1765 John Fawcett was called to pastor a very small congregation at Wainsgate, England. He labored there diligently for 7 years, but his salary was so meager that he and his wife could scarcely obtain the necessities of life. … Continue reading →
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From Ann Landers
It has been reported that the late, great newspaper counselor, Ann Landers, received an average of 10,000 letters each month, and nearly all of them from people burdened with problems. She was asked if there was any one thing which … Continue reading →
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An Old Soldier’s Prayer
Once when visiting his troops, General Douglas A. MacArthur shared this prayer with the soldiers: “Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he … Continue reading →
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Reverse Roles Sunday Morning
A little girl, with shining eyes and little face aglow, said, “Daddy, it is almost time for Sunday school. Let’s go! They teach us there of Jesus’ love, and how He died that we might all have everlasting life by … Continue reading →
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