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NFL all-star quarterback Tony Romo found himself without a place to play after his team, while he was recovering from his latest injury. There was interest from a couple of teams who could use a player of Romo’s stature. One of those teams was the Denver Broncos. If Bronco General Manager, John Elway…

In the NFL offseason two men in the Denver Broncos front office were convicted of DUI. Team president, John Elway suspended both of them, but he did not fire them. When asked why Tom Heckert and Matt Russell were not fired Elway replied, “Heck, I’ve made a lot of poor decisions too. I believe in second…

The biggest free agent in the history of the National Football League signed with the Denver Broncos. In the beginning, no one mentioned the Broncos as a possible landing place for All Star Quarterback and future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning who was seeking to continue his career with a new team. Doing…

Though the football team may struggle through the first part of their games, the Denver Broncos may have found a new way to win games. In the second half of the 2011 season, the team promoted Tim Tebow, dubbed the “Mile High Miracle” to starting quarterback. The team won seven out of eight games, even…

22 year-old Christopher Wuebben recently lost his job as a paramedic. While delivering pizzas to make ends meet, Wuebben displayed his true talents when he saved the life of a man who went into cardiac arrest just as his pizza was delivered. When he drove up to a home in suburban Denver, Wuebben heard…

BROKENNESS "Going once, going twice, sold for $7,000.00!" The auctioneer said right before his gavel hit the table. Rita Coors was elated. She'd just purchased a porcelain mask, hand painted by John Denver. She couldn't wait to hold it in her hands. As the auctioneer at the 1997 Charity Celebrity Ball…

AUTHORITY A Massachusetts landlord has discovered a unique way to get his tenants to pay their rent on time. He is awarding prizes to tenants who pay on time. Douglas Rau has about 100 tenants and says he has tried just about everything to get people to pay their rent on time. In the first ever give-away,…

America's Most Sinful Cities? Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008 at 2:37 am ET What are America's most sinful cities? How could we know? Well, give Forbes magazine credit for giving this ranking challenge a try. The magazine recently offered rankings on the traditional seven deadly sins -- and ranked…

CHARACTER 1999's Super Bowl was remembered more for "the night before" than for the game itself. On Saturday before Super Bowl XXXIII, safety Eugene Robinson was awarded the NFL's first Bart Starr Award from the Fellowship of Christian Athletes for high moral character on Saturday afternoon. On Saturday…

GOD’S WORD Army Captain Jeff Ryals serves as an intelligence officer with the 3rd Squadron, 7th Calvary Regiment of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. While he served in Iraq, he carried a family heirloom and a symbol of his faith with him in his shirt pocket. Ryals carried a small steel-covered Bible…

AUTHENTICITY After McGwire hit 70 home runs in a single season in 1998, collectors scrambled to purchase his 1985 Topps rookie card. Con men were also scrambling. Not to buy cards, but to produce forgeries to sell to the collectors. At $200.00 a card, con men were raking it in. The best of the fakes…

TO ILLUSTRATE GOD'S LOVE------ T here is a natural, logical kind of lov­ing that loves lovely things and lovely people. That's logical. But there is another kind of loving that doesn't look for value in what it loves, but that creates value in what it loves. Like Rosemary's rag doll. When Rosemary, my…

To Illustrate TEMPTATION PRACTICE HABITS R eports the Denver Post: "Like many sheep ranchers in the West, Lexy Fowler has tried just about everything to stop crafty coyotes from killing her sheep. She has used odor sprays, electric fences, and 'scare-coyotes.' She has slept with her lambs during the…

to Illustrate... SANCTIFICATION PREACHING'S EFFECT PAIN A man once bought a home with a tree in the backyard. It was winter, and nothing marked this tree as differ­ent from any other tree. When spring came, the tree grew leaves and tiny pink buds. How wonderful, thought the man. A flower tree! I will…

PRAYER HAGAR, participating in a picnic alone, sits on top of the hill, looks heaven­ward, and says, "I pray and pray and pray and yet You never answer. What have I got to do?" With that, a Voice comes through the clouds and the rays of sunshine, "Don't talk with your mouth full!" I have the feeling…

PRAYER HAGAR, participating in a picnic alone, sits on top of the hill, looks heaven­ward, and says, "I pray and pray and pray and yet You never answer. What have I got to do?" With that, a Voice comes through the clouds and the rays of sunshine, "Don't talk with your mouth full!" I have the feeling…

FAITH FAITH AND IDENTITY-Donald Strobe tells a powerful story in one of his ser­mons. It comes from Alex Haley's book ROOTS [(by way of William Willimon's book, REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE, (Nashville: The Upper Room, 1980) p. 113.] I have heard it used by other pastors very effectively. It is that memorable…

TO ILLUSTRATE GOOD FROM BAD I once read about farm­ers in southern Ala­bama who were accus­tomed to planting one crop every year — cotton. They would plow as much ground as they could and plant their crop. Year after year they lived by cotton. Then one year the dread­ed boll weevil devastated the whole…

TO IlLUSTRaTE... PURITY A farmer went each week to the Farm­ers' Market to sell, among other things, the cot­tage cheese and apple but­ter made on his farm. He carried these in two large tubs, from which he ladled the cottage cheese or apple butter into smaller contain­ers the customers brought. One…

to Illustrate... CRITICISM' A young musi­cian's concert was poorly received by the critics. The famous Fin­nish composer Jean Sibe­lius consoled him by pat­ting him on the shoulder and saying, "Remember, son, there is no city in the world where they have erected a statue to a critic." — Haddon Robinson…

TO ILLUSTRATE SUSTENANCE" I magine you are on hol­iday and you have an apartment overlooking the sand and surf. Sitting on the table in your room is a fishbowl, and inside the bowl is a small goldfish. Each day you swim and sun-bake and enjoy soak­ing up the delights of vaca­tioning. Before long, how­ever,…

TO ILLUSTRATE EASTER" SURRENDER' VISION' M argaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid-1950s her father, British minister W. E. Sangster, began to notice some un­easiness in his throat and a dragging in his leg. When he went to the doctor, he found he had an incurable disease that caused pro­gressive…

3TF-343 _ WHEN DOES PRAYINi If you have found yourself proving repeatedly about some 'How long should I persist? Why doesn't He answer? G eorge Mueller shocked the wealthy widow as he shook his head, refusing her generous offer. Even Mrs. Mueller was sur­prised—both she and George knew that 500 pounds…

parables, etc. ".. . he did not speak to them without a parable" Jesus Mark 4:34 RS.V. a monthly resource letter for pastors/teachers/speakers Volume 7, Number 4 June / 1987 LISTEN TO YOUR FATHER'S VOICE I feel constrained to share something with you that was a tremendous blessing and inspiration to…

the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: The Enigma: Suffering / Glory August / 1988 Volume 4, Number 10 THE ENIGMA OF SUFFERING AND GLORY I got my inspiration for this month's theme from reading Harold Myra's new book Living By God's Surprises (Word, Waco, TX, 1988).…