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Illustration: Old Age -Fruit of God
A young man came to a man of ninety years of age and said to him, "How have you made out to live so long and be so well?" The old man took the youngster to an orchard, and, pointing to some large trees full of apples, said, "I planted these trees when I was a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
I use the Bible I had in Bible college when I have my devotions or study. Came across these notes from 1/24/80. I was 27.
Joshua 14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come
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Baptist
Contributed by James Snyder on Jul 28, 2023
Dr. James L. Snyder
The other morning I got up; at least, I tried to get up, but the bones in every part of my body had organized a labor strike against me. I’m not quite sure what they were protesting.
As I lay there groaning over these bones, I did not realize how many bones I had in my body.
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Christian Missionary Alliance
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 26, 2008
Old age comes from God, old age leads on to God.
(Pierre Teilhard
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"One's [old] age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At mid-day the sun may burn, and men labor under it;
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go one pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning devotion to individuals, to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and
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