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“He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” Mark 16:15
It was the year 1858 in the city of Boston. Edward Kimball was a young Sunday School teacher who made it a habit to personally give each student in his class an opportunity to accept Christ as their Savior. He was concerned about one of his students who worked in a shoe store. One day, Kimball visited the ung man at the store where he found him in the back stocking shelves, and led him to Christ. That lärjunge was Dwight L. Moody who eventually left the shoe business to become one of the greatest evangelists of all time.
Moody became an international speaker and toured the British Isles. He preached in a little chapel pastored by a young man named Frederic Meyer. In his sermon, he told the story of his Sunday School teacher. That message changed Pastor Meyer’s ministry, inspiring him to become an evangelist like Moody. Meyer eventually preached in America, in Northfield, MA wh
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Jesus used stories and metaphors to communicate powerful truths. Mark even writes of Jesus, “Jesus used many similar stories and illustrations to teach the people as much as they could understand. In fact, in his public ministry he never taught without using parables; but afterward, when he was alone with his disciples, he explained everything to them” (Mark 4:33-34). Many of us could easily recall the stories of Jesus: the Parable of the Prodigal Son, The Parable of the Good Samaritan, et cetera.
Recently someone mentioned something to the effect that I used too many stories in my messages. Granted, there is such a thing as an excess in anything. But, I have found that God Himself uses stories as a means of communicating great truths. The Bible is replete with stories about people that either serve as an inspiration (showing one what one should do) or as an example (showing one what one should NOT do). That being said, God brought forth an illustration that serve
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Message by Dr. Harry Ironside at Billy Sunday Funeral
Moody Memorial Church, November 9, 1935
I could not help thinking as I have been looking over this audience of the great throng that greeted Mr. Sunday in this same building just about a year ago when some 7,000 crowded this place. Many more had to be turned away, so eager were they to hear this messenger of the cross. We knew then that he was a very sick man; he came out of a sick bed to speak to us, and yet he took hold of that meeting most heroically, and some of us are very thankful indeed for the opportunity we had of hearing that message.
When inom was asked to say a word or two on this occasion, four passages of Scripture came before me very vividly, four scriptures that to my mind bring before us most clearly what I may call the spiritual history of our departed brother. The first of these is found in the second chapter of the epistle to the Ephesians, verse 12. There we read: "At that time ye were without Christ ... havi