Fire Out (4 of 4)
Series: Holy Hurt
James Merritt
I Thessalonians 5:19
Welcome to those at our Mill Creek Campus as well as those watching online. We are one church at two locations. Today I am teaching from our Sugarloaf Campus. Our Mill Creek Campus is located 20 minutes to our north. I encourage you to attend the campus closest to you.
Introduction
1. It may be the largest forest fire ever and perhaps the largest forest fire in American history. Just to read about it almost singes the hair on your head. For two terrifying days and nights, August 20-21, 1910, this fire raged across three million acres of timberland in northern Idaho and western Montana.
2. It all started when some scattered fires burning in a dry area was hit by hurricane force winds. Within six hours, fires became firestorms and trees by the millions became exploding candles. Millions of trees were sucked up from the ground, roots and all, becoming flying blowtorches.
3. Wind-powered fireballs were rolling from ridgetop to ridgetop at 70 mph leaping canyons a half a mile wide in one fluid motion. Entire mountainsides ignited in an instant. No one had ever seen a fire like this.
4. Trees and bushes and anything flammable was exploding like Roman candles. At noon, on the next day, it was dark as far as Canada, as far south as Denver and as far east as New York. To the west, the sky was so filled with smoke and ashes that ships 500 miles out to sea could not navigate by the stars.
5. The fire burned 3 million acres, destroyed enough timber to fill a freight-train 2400 miles long, and killed 86 people. By the time it was finally put out, this massive forest fire had burned 4700 square miles (that is the size of the State of Connecticut.)
6. That may be the largest fire in American history and one of the largest in all of history, but I don't believe it is the largest fire that has ever been put out. I believe that fire is put out every day by followers of Jesus and ...
Series: Holy Hurt
James Merritt
I Thessalonians 5:19
Welcome to those at our Mill Creek Campus as well as those watching online. We are one church at two locations. Today I am teaching from our Sugarloaf Campus. Our Mill Creek Campus is located 20 minutes to our north. I encourage you to attend the campus closest to you.
Introduction
1. It may be the largest forest fire ever and perhaps the largest forest fire in American history. Just to read about it almost singes the hair on your head. For two terrifying days and nights, August 20-21, 1910, this fire raged across three million acres of timberland in northern Idaho and western Montana.
2. It all started when some scattered fires burning in a dry area was hit by hurricane force winds. Within six hours, fires became firestorms and trees by the millions became exploding candles. Millions of trees were sucked up from the ground, roots and all, becoming flying blowtorches.
3. Wind-powered fireballs were rolling from ridgetop to ridgetop at 70 mph leaping canyons a half a mile wide in one fluid motion. Entire mountainsides ignited in an instant. No one had ever seen a fire like this.
4. Trees and bushes and anything flammable was exploding like Roman candles. At noon, on the next day, it was dark as far as Canada, as far south as Denver and as far east as New York. To the west, the sky was so filled with smoke and ashes that ships 500 miles out to sea could not navigate by the stars.
5. The fire burned 3 million acres, destroyed enough timber to fill a freight-train 2400 miles long, and killed 86 people. By the time it was finally put out, this massive forest fire had burned 4700 square miles (that is the size of the State of Connecticut.)
6. That may be the largest fire in American history and one of the largest in all of history, but I don't believe it is the largest fire that has ever been put out. I believe that fire is put out every day by followers of Jesus and ...
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