The Sower's Seeds: 120 Inspiring Stories for Preaching, Teaching, and Public SpeakingPaulist Press, 2004 - 128 pages For over a decade the Sower's Seeds books have been a wonderful resource for teachers, preachers, and anyone who has to speak in front of an audience. Now author Brian Cavanaugh has revised and expanded his original volume--with twenty new stories--for old fans as well as a whole new audience. He includes stories of inspiration, warmth, and insight arranged around numerous universal themes ranging from awareness, compassion, perseverance, and wisdom, to such unusual themes as baseball, Thomas Edison, hospitality, and risk-taking. While the majority of stories are anonymous, there are some attributed to well known names like Zig Ziglar, Mickey Mantle, and Theodore Roosevelt. Years before there was Chicken Soup, Sower's Seeds was making readers laugh, cry, and come away with a warm heart. The newest book--like the others in the series--is ideal both for quiet inspiration and for handy, on-the-run fun. This is storytelling at its best. |
Contents
LXXIX | 57 |
LXXX | 58 |
LXXXI | 60 |
LXXXII | 61 |
LXXXIV | 62 |
LXXXVI | 63 |
LXXXVII | 64 |
LXXXIX | 65 |
XCI | 66 |
XCII | 67 |
XCIII | 68 |
XCIV | 70 |
XCVI | 71 |
XCVII | 72 |
XCIX | 73 |
CI | 74 |
CIII | 75 |
CIV | 76 |
CV | 77 |
CVI | 78 |
CVII | 79 |
CIX | 81 |
CXI | 82 |
CXII | 83 |
CXIV | 84 |
CXV | 85 |
CXVII | 86 |
CXVIII | 87 |
CXX | 88 |
CXXI | 89 |
CXXII | 101 |
CXXIII | 112 |
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The Sower's Seeds: One Hundred Inspiring Stories for Preaching, Teaching ... Brian Cavanaugh No preview available - 1990 |
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Popular passages
Page 45 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 39 - If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip.
Page 88 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Page 15 - I do not know how to light the fire, but I am still able to say the prayer," and again the miracle would be accomplished.
Page 39 - I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip.
Page 24 - Finally catching up with the youth, he asked him why he was doing this. The answer was that the stranded starfish would die if left until the morning sun. "But the beach goes on for miles and there are millions of starfish" countered the other. "How can your effort make any difference?
Page 15 - I do not know how to light the fire. I do not know the prayer, but I know the place and this must be sufficient.
Page 4 - That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts — That hope always triumphs over experience — That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Page 5 - Fetch me a mustard seed from a home that has never known sorrow. We will use it to drive the sorrow out of your life." The woman set off at once in search of that magical mustard seed. She came first to a splendid mansion, knocked at the door, and said, "I am looking for a home that has never known sorrow. Is this such a place? It is very important to me.
Page 14 - Master of the Universe, listen! I do not know how to light the fire, but I am still able to say the prayer.