Thankful In the Midst of Trials
Donald Cantrell
Genesis 45:25-28
Theme: Jacob's wagons proved to be greater than his worries
I - The Past Worries of Jacob
II - The Paralyzing Wavering of Jacob
III - The Persuasive Wagons of Jacob
IV - The Precious Words of Jacob
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
The Applause Adversity
Martin Luther King, Jr. was right: We can overcome, despite adversity, the trend toward mediocrity, and the temptation to rationalize our weaknesses.
You simply cannot keep a good person down.
Cripple him, and you have a Sir Walter Scott. Lock him in a prison cell, and you have a John Bunyan.
Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have a George Washington.
Raise him in abject poverty, and you have an Abraham Lincoln.
Strike him down with infantile paralysis, and he becomes a Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Burn him so severely that the doctors say he'll never walk again, and you have a Glenn Cunningham-who set the world's one-mile record in 1934.
Deafen him and you have a Ludwig van Beethoven.
Have him or her born black in a society filled with racial Have him or her born black in a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have a Booker T. Washington, a Marian Anderson, a George Washington Carver, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call him a slow learner, ''retarded,'' and write him off as uneducable, and you have an Albert Einstein.
Who Didn't Make it Out?
Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great, interviewed Admiral Jim Stockdale, the highest-ranking officer in the Hanoi Hilton prisoner of war camp during the height of the Vietnam War. Regarding the prisoner of war camp, Collins asked Stockdale, ''Who didn't make it out?''
''Oh, that's easy,'' answered Stockdale. ''The optimists.''
''The optimists? I don't understand,'' responded Collins.
''The optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, 'We're going to be out by Christmas.' And Christmas woul ...
Donald Cantrell
Genesis 45:25-28
Theme: Jacob's wagons proved to be greater than his worries
I - The Past Worries of Jacob
II - The Paralyzing Wavering of Jacob
III - The Persuasive Wagons of Jacob
IV - The Precious Words of Jacob
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
The Applause Adversity
Martin Luther King, Jr. was right: We can overcome, despite adversity, the trend toward mediocrity, and the temptation to rationalize our weaknesses.
You simply cannot keep a good person down.
Cripple him, and you have a Sir Walter Scott. Lock him in a prison cell, and you have a John Bunyan.
Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have a George Washington.
Raise him in abject poverty, and you have an Abraham Lincoln.
Strike him down with infantile paralysis, and he becomes a Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Burn him so severely that the doctors say he'll never walk again, and you have a Glenn Cunningham-who set the world's one-mile record in 1934.
Deafen him and you have a Ludwig van Beethoven.
Have him or her born black in a society filled with racial Have him or her born black in a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have a Booker T. Washington, a Marian Anderson, a George Washington Carver, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call him a slow learner, ''retarded,'' and write him off as uneducable, and you have an Albert Einstein.
Who Didn't Make it Out?
Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great, interviewed Admiral Jim Stockdale, the highest-ranking officer in the Hanoi Hilton prisoner of war camp during the height of the Vietnam War. Regarding the prisoner of war camp, Collins asked Stockdale, ''Who didn't make it out?''
''Oh, that's easy,'' answered Stockdale. ''The optimists.''
''The optimists? I don't understand,'' responded Collins.
''The optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, 'We're going to be out by Christmas.' And Christmas woul ...
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