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What Makes the Ship Sink?

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We will always face storms in life, but remember: Never allow an outside storm to become an inside storm. It's inside storms that sink ships. The Bible is replete with story after story of how God's people encountered problems. When Noah sailed the ocean blue, He had problems the same as you. For 40 days he drove the ark, Before he found a place to park. How many times have we found ourselves flooded with problems? Often, when I have been surrounded with struggles in the ministry, I have felt like the lion tamer who put an ad in the paper: "Lion tamer - wants tamer lion." A few years ago, I took up fishing as a hobby. Friends and I would fish on the eastern shore of the Big Island of Hawaii. We would throw our lines into the ocean, and if we we're fishing at the right time and had the right bait, we would catch some good-sized fish. Nearby was a barbecue grill where we would place our trophies. We would take our day's catch, clean ea...

What Will Navigate Your Life

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Before technology changed the way we navigate on the water, bullhorns and whistles were used to communicate from ship to ship. Once, a large armored battleship was slowly making its way through uncharted waters in a fog-shrouded bay. Suddenly, through the fog, the captain noticed what appeared to be the light of another ship directly in his path. Quickly, he grabed his megaphone and shouted, "This is Admiral Smith of the United States Navy, Steer yourself 10 degrees sout. We are on a collision course, and I am coming through with priority orders." Through the fog, he heard a fait but audible reply, "This is Seaman Fourth Class Jones. You steer yourself 10 degrees to the north." The Admiral said to himself, This guy is a seaman fourth class, and I'm an admiral! Who in the world does he think he is? Turning up the megaphone a few notches and using a stronger tone of authority, he barked, "This is Admiral Smith of the United States Navy! You s...