Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 17, 2010
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The Prison of Bitterness
Because we live in a world full of people that don’t know grace. It’s foreign to them. They don’t know it. And if they don’t hear about it and experience it from the body of Christ, they will never know it.
I first learned of this story from Max Lucado. Each week Kevin
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2008
PRISON POPULATION
The Pew Charitable Trust reports that by 2011 the U.S. prison population will grow 12% retain, 1.7 million men and women and cost American taxpayers an additional $27.5 billion. That’s more than the population of Atlanta, Baltimore and Denver combined. Every year
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 5, 2021
An old farmer wrote to his son in prison: “This year I wont be able to plant potatoes because I can’t dig the field. I know if you were here you would help me.”
The son wrote back:”Dad don’t even think of digging the field because that’s where I buried the money I stole.”
Police read the letter and
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Denomination:
Independent/Bible
HUMAITA PRISON
Charles Colson, Director of Prison Fellowship and former Counsel to the President of the United States Richard Nixon, who himself went to prison as a result of the Watergate affair wrote this:
"Humaita Prison in Brazil is a remarkable place. Almost twenty years ago, it was a
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Denomination:
Anglican
Contributed by Brad Beaman on Jul 20, 2003
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Not long after Paul was in prison there was a man, one of the early church fathers, by the name of Pollycarp. He lived his life for the sake and the glory of God. At eighty-six years old the officials called upon him. Even before this he had a vision that he was to by martyred. He could have fled
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 18, 2004
In the Prison Fellowship newsletter, Jubilee, Charles Colson told of a young boy who became excessively fearful during the great New York blackout of 1977. When his parents questioned their son, he confessed that at the exact moment the lights went out, he had kicked a
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2006
The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 30, 2005
Illus.: “In Prison With Three Books”
The editor of a well-known London newspaper sent a letter of inquiry to 100 professors, authors, merchants, and other professional people. The inquiry was, “Suppose you were sent to prison for 3 years and you could only take 3 books with you. Which 3 would you
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Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2005
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The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2009
RESCUE FROM THE BIGGEST PRISON
An Australian mining town will always remember the year of the dramatic rescue. An earthquake killed one miner and trapped two others 3,000 feet under the ground. Days turned into weeks as miners bore through tons of rock; rescuers could only work one at a time on
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The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into
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Denomination:
Adventist
Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 24, 2009
VICTOR FRANKL: PRISONER STORY
Victor Frankl was a Viennese psychiatrist whose entire family was captured and kept in Concentration camps in Nazi Germany. While Frankl was being held prisoner his father, mother and wife all died in camps. Only Frankl’s sister and himself survived.
Dr. Frankl has
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 25, 2009
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Results of Materialism--Bankruptcy, Prison and Suicide
Let me share a story with you about how Satan attacks a Christian. First, Satan shot a poisonous dart at his heel; but the Christian was unharmed because his feet were protected with the message of God’s peace. Next, Satan shot an arrow at his
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 15, 2011
BLESS YOU, PRISON
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a Russian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. His writings helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system.
One night while he was in prison in Siberia, his cell mate Boris Kornfeld, a Jewish doctor,
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Denomination:
Brethren
SIN: PRISON WITHOUT BARS
It's easy to live in denial--to live in sin and think everything is going our way. So sooner or later God gets our attention.
In 1989, Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hit leader, was banished from baseball by Major League Commissioner. [Bart Giamatti].
The
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Denomination:
Baptist
46664… PRISONER 46664…
1 Corinthians 4:12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
There are times it seems our hurt and wounds are our testing zones and we are put on display for others to mock. It is like the spectacle at the end
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Denomination:
Assembly Of God