Sermon Illustrations about Adversity
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Broken Things
God uses broken things. Broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the ...
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Conformity Crushes
Strangely, the expounders of many of the great new ideas of history were frequently considered on the lunatic fringe for some or all of their lives. If ...
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Expect Obstacles
Opposition is a fact: the Christian who is not conscious of being opposed had better watch himself for he is in danger.
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Yet I Will Praise
Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid 1950s her father, British minister W. E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a ...
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Delight out of Disaster
I once read about farmers in southern Alabama who were accustomed to planting one crop every year--cotton. They would plow as much ground as they could ...
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Thanksgiving for Strife
Thanks be to God for a life full-packed with things that matter crying to be done--a life, thank God, of never-ending strife against the odds. ... Just ...
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When Loss Is Gain
In his book of sermons The Living Faith, Lloyd C. Douglas tells the story of Thomas Hearne, who, "in his journey to the mouth of the Coppermine River, ...
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Protected by Adversity
A leader's own salvation and spiritual progress are protected by humbling adversity.
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Easy Work Is an Insult
It's wrong to offer people easy work. Few things in life are more insulting than to be offered an easy job.
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