Contributed by Chris Jordan on Feb 1, 2008
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CLOSING STORY: “On Courage”
Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl named
Liza who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a
blood transfusion from her five-year-old brother, who had
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Mary Slesser (1848-1915)
when Mary was a teenager, she volunteered to help organize a mission in the slums of Scotland. Despite Mary's genuine and caring efforts, many of the people the mission was designed to help oppose the work because they felt it avoided the "real" needs of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 11, 2009
COURAGE V. JUDGMENT
I heard a story this week about a bull that loved to chew his cud while sitting beneath a shade tree. That particular tree was located just a stone’s throw from a set of railroad tracks. And every time that train came blowing by, it would disturb his afternoon nap and frustrate
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 12, 2011
COURAGE AND HEROISM
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." — Mark Twain — ("Signs of the Times," December 1996, p. 2)
"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to
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The boy sobbed, "But Dad, I want my ball..."
"You can play with your ball," I said, "but you’ll have to go downstairs and get it yourself" Now the tears flowed.
Tony’s playroom held the stuffed animals, toys, and games that four-year-old love. He spent hours there. But to turn on the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because if you havent courage, you may not have an
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
It takes courage to livecourage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 4, 2002
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CHOOSING COURAGE; FINDING PEACE
By Steve Goodier
http://www.LifeSupportSystem.com
"Do you know what my son James dreamed about last night?" a friend
asked me. "He dreamed about YOU," she went on.
"James told me this morning that in his dream he was being chased by
King Kong. Then he met
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 10, 2002
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THE COURAGE OF SHANNON WRAY
After winning a hard fought battle over an attempt to censor religious
references from her speech, Shannon Wray delivered her non-censored
salutatorian speech on Friday during the Hollidaysburg Area High School graduation ceremony. Shannon was represented by Mat
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity and hardihood the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which
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