Title: Finding Meaning In Midnight Madness
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Acts 16:22-30
Thanksgiving Sermon
Act 16:25 KJV - And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
I - Their Outrageous Punishment (22 - 23)
II - Their Optimal Placement (23b - 24)
III - Their Opportunistic Praises (25)
IV - Their Odd Proclamation (26 - 28)
V - Their Ordered Purpose (29 - 30)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
It Is Well
Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888) was a wealthy Chicago businessman and lawyer, married with five children and living in Chicago in 1870. when his son, Horatio Spafford Jr., contracted scarlet fever and died. The next year, a massive fire devasted the city on October 8-10,1871. The fire killed almost 300 people and destroyed the homes of around 100,000. Spafford suffered great losses when his real estate holdings burned to the ground. Despite their financial losses, the Spafford's offered generous assistance to others.
Two years after the fire, in 1873, Spafford decided to take his family to England to visit his friend, evangelist D. L. Moody, who was preaching there. A business matter delayed Spafford, so he sent his wife Anna (1842-1923) and their four daughters (11-year-old Anna, 9-year-old Margaret Lee, 5-year-old Elizabeth, and 2-year-old Tanetta) ahead of him.
They sailed on the steamship Ville du Havre.
More Tragedy
On November 22, 1873, an iron sailing ship struck the Ville du Havre and sank into the Atlantic Ocean in 12 minutes. Rescuers found Spafford's wife unconscious and floating on a plank of wood. But sadly, all four of the couple's daughters perished. When Anna Spafford arrived in Cardiff, South Wales, she telegraphed her husband two words: "Saved alone...."
Spafford immediately booked passage on a ship and left to join his wife. As the ship crossed the Atlantic Ocean, in the area where the Ville du Hav ...
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Acts 16:22-30
Thanksgiving Sermon
Act 16:25 KJV - And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
I - Their Outrageous Punishment (22 - 23)
II - Their Optimal Placement (23b - 24)
III - Their Opportunistic Praises (25)
IV - Their Odd Proclamation (26 - 28)
V - Their Ordered Purpose (29 - 30)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
It Is Well
Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888) was a wealthy Chicago businessman and lawyer, married with five children and living in Chicago in 1870. when his son, Horatio Spafford Jr., contracted scarlet fever and died. The next year, a massive fire devasted the city on October 8-10,1871. The fire killed almost 300 people and destroyed the homes of around 100,000. Spafford suffered great losses when his real estate holdings burned to the ground. Despite their financial losses, the Spafford's offered generous assistance to others.
Two years after the fire, in 1873, Spafford decided to take his family to England to visit his friend, evangelist D. L. Moody, who was preaching there. A business matter delayed Spafford, so he sent his wife Anna (1842-1923) and their four daughters (11-year-old Anna, 9-year-old Margaret Lee, 5-year-old Elizabeth, and 2-year-old Tanetta) ahead of him.
They sailed on the steamship Ville du Havre.
More Tragedy
On November 22, 1873, an iron sailing ship struck the Ville du Havre and sank into the Atlantic Ocean in 12 minutes. Rescuers found Spafford's wife unconscious and floating on a plank of wood. But sadly, all four of the couple's daughters perished. When Anna Spafford arrived in Cardiff, South Wales, she telegraphed her husband two words: "Saved alone...."
Spafford immediately booked passage on a ship and left to join his wife. As the ship crossed the Atlantic Ocean, in the area where the Ville du Hav ...
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