Hope for Your Heart: Finding Strength in Life's Storms (27 page)

Part One

Chapter One: The Ultimate Life Preserver

1
. Phil. 4:13 nkjv.

2
. John 8:32.

3
. W. E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, and William White,
Vine’s Complete
Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996), 2:311–312.

4
.
Hurricanes . . . Unleashing Nature’s Fury
, A Preparedness Guide, U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA National Weather Service, 6.

5
. Ps. 46:1–3.

Chapter Two: When Trouble Hits Wave upon Wave

1
. Matt. 26:39 esv.

2
. Exod. 20:13 kjv.

3
. This event was featured on NBC’s
Today
show, September 26, 2002.

4
. Ps. 107:28–31.

Chapter Three: Your Unfailing Anchor

1
. Vine, Unger, and White,
Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of
Old and New Testament Words
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996), s.v. “Anchor.”

2
. National Safe Boating Council, “Teach and Learn: Types of Anchors,”
Boatingsidekicks.com
, 2001;
http://www.boatingsidekicks.com
TEACH
anchortypes.pdf
.

3
. Luke 5:4–5.

4
. Don Casey, “Anchoring,” Boat Owners Association of the United States, 2006;
http://www.boatus.com/boattech/anchorin.htm
.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Matt. 8:8 esv.

7
. See
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/a_mother_is_the_truest_friend_we_have-when_trials/149949.html
.

8
. Casey, “Anchoring.”

9
. Charles Stanford,
Central Truths
, Legacy Reprint Series, originally published 1859 (Biblio Bazaar, 2009), 113.

10
. Ibid.

11
. For information on USS
Constitution
, see
Selected Naval Documents: USS Constitution
, “Escape from an Enemy Squadron, 1812” (Washington, DC: Department of the Navy, 1995);
www.history.navy.mil/docs
war1812
const4.htm
.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Ibid.

Chapter Four: The Flash Floods of Affliction

1
. All from esv.

2
. Acts 27:29 esv.

3
. Bernie Siegel, quoted in Richard S. Wiener, ed.,
Pain Manage
ment: A Practical Guide for Clinicians
(Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2001), 63.

4
. Dr. Joyce O’Shaughnessy’s comments were taken from an interview on the
Hope For The Heart
broadcast and is also on the CD album titled
Conquering the Challenge of Cancer
, available from Hope For The Heart (hopefortheheart.org).

5
. Harold Koenig,
The Healing Power of Faith: How Belief and Prayer
Can Help You Triumph Over Disease
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999), 24.

6
. Ibid., 27.

7
. Timothy Keller, “Preaching Amid Pluralism,”
Leadership
, Winter 2002, 34–35.

8
. Heb. 2:1.

Chapter Five: The Tidal Waves of Trouble

1
. H. J. Cummins, “TV or not TV,”
Star Tribune
(Minneapolis), April 24, 1996.

2
. Sharon Jayson, “Generation Y’s Goal? Wealth and Fame,”
USA
Today
, January 9, 2007.

3
. Ibid.

4
. For information on Sam Johnson, see “Biography of U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson,”
http://www.samjohnson.house.gov/Biography/
.

5
. Todd J. Gillman, “Congressman Relives POW Experience in Vietnam,”
Dallas Morning News
, January 27, 2006;
http://www.samjohnson.house.gov/news/DocumentPrint.aspx?DocumentID=38841
.

6
. See
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010–05–31-gulf-oil-spill_N.htm
.

7
. Robert Kiener, “Marvel of the North Atlantic,”
Reader’s Digest
, December 1998.

Part Two

Chapter Six: Trust in the Captain’s Course

1
. “How Can You Learn to Trust Again?”
Psychology Today,
March-April 2002.

2
. See
http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/captain
.

3
. See
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Captain_%28nautical%29#2
.

4
. From “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley.

5
. Rom. 4:18–21.

6
. Inscription on walls where Jews hid from the Nazis, in Adam Fisher,
An Everlasting Name: A Service for Remembering the Shoah
(Springfield, NJ: Berhman House, 1991), 53.

Chapter Seven: An Anchor like No Other

1
. For information and statistics on the
Titanic
, see
Encyclopedia Titanica
, 2010,
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
.

2
. David G. Brown,
The Last Log of the Titanic
(Encyclopedia Titanica Research, January 31, 2001);
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/last-log-of-the-titanic~chapter-0~part-4.html
.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Heb. 4:13.

5
. For the story of John Harper, see Elesha Coffman, “Sacrifice at Sea,”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/news/2000/aug11.html
, adapted from
The Titanic’s Last Hero
(Chicago: Moody Press, 1997).

6
. Ibid.

7
. Luke 24:19–21.

8
. Luke 24:24 esv.

9
. Corrie ten Boom, as quoted in Karol Ladd,
Power of a Positive
Woman
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002), 50.

10
. Luke 24:25–27.

11
. For the statistical probabilities in this section, see Peter W. Stoner and Robert C. Newman,
Science Speaks
(Chicago: Moody Press, 1963), 100–110.

12
. John 3:16–17.

13
. John 10:10.

14
. James 4:17.

15
. Isa. 59:2; Rom. 6:23.

16
. Rom. 5:8.

17
. John 14:6.

18
. Matt. 16:24–26.

19
. Eph. 2:8–9.

20
. Heb. 13:8.

21
. Rev. 22:16 esv.

Chapter Eight: The Right Map Will Light Your Way

1
. John 8:12.

2
. Ps. 119:105 esv.

3
. See June Hunt,
The Bible: Is It Reliable? Biblical Counseling Keys
(Dallas:
Hope For The Heart
, 2008).

4
. See Henry M. Morris,
Science and the Bible
, revised and updated (Chicago: Moody, 1986), 13–14.

5
. Benjamin Davidson,
The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon
(London: Samuel Bagster & Sons), 249. See also Ehud Ben-Yehuda and David Weinstein,
English-Hebrew, Hebrew-English Dictionary
(New York: Washington Square Press, 1961), 252.

6
. Lynn Waller,
How Do We Know the Bible Is True? Reasons a
Kid Can Believe It
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1991), 4–5; Henry M. Morris,
The Biblical Basis for Modern Science
(Grand Rapids: Baker, 1984), 289; Answers in Genesis, “Matthew Maury’s Search for the Secret of the Seas,” first published in
Creation Magazine
, June 1989,
www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v11/i3/maury.asp
.

7
. Morris,
Science and the Bible
, 11–12.

8
. Ibid., 12.

9
. Waller,
How Do We Know the Bible Is True?
, 8–9 and Morris,
The
Biblical Basis for Modern Science
, 289.

10
. H. L. Willmington,
Willmington’s Guide to the Bible
(Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1984), 816.

11
. Ibid., 817–818.

12
. Ibid., 816.

13
. Martin Rosenthal, “Queries and Minor Notes—Circumcision of the Newborn,”
The Journal of the American Medical Association
, Vol. 133, No. 6 (February 8, 1947), 436.

14
. S. I. McMillen and David Stern,
None of These Diseases
(Grand Rapids: Revell, 2003),11.

15
. Lynn Waller,
How Do We Know the Bible Is True?
, 10–11 and Morris,
The Biblical Basis for Modern Science
, 289; “Matthew Maury’s Search for the Secret of the Seas.”

16
. Henry M. Morris,
Science and the Bible
, 14–15.

17
. See Morris,
Biblical Basis for Modern Science
, 372–379.

18
. McMillen and Stern,
None of These Diseases
, 15, quoted in
Will-
mington’s Guide to the Bible
, 816.

19
. Brother Andrew,
For the Love of My Brothers
(Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1998), 198.

20
. Brother Andrew with John and Elizabeth Sherrill,
God’s Smug
gler
(Grand Rapids: Chosen Books, 2006), 30.

21
. Ibid., 33.

22
. Brother Andrew,
Love of My
Brothers,
15.

23
. Daniel J. Boorstin,
The Discoverers
(New York: Random House, 1983), 146–147.

Chapter Nine: Knowing How to Navigate

1
. William Shakespeare,
Love’s Labours Lost
, Act IV, Scene 3.

2
. Source unknown.

3
. 1 Thess. 5:16–18.

4
. Randolph C. Byrd, M.D., “Positive Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer in a Coronary Care Unit Population,”
Southern Medical
Journal
, Vol. 81, No. 7 (July 1988), 826–829.

5
. Dr. Byrd’s clinical trial on the effects of prayer was groundbreaking and one of the first of its kind. Other subsequent studies have confirmed the link between prayer and physical and emotional healing. For more information, see
The Healing Power of Prayer
by Harold Koenig, M.D.,
The Faith Factor
by Dale Matthews, M.D., and
Prayer
Is Good Medicine
by Larry Dossey, M.D.

6
. 2 Cor. 12:7–9.

7
. Phil. 4:6.

8
. Brother Lawrence,
The Practice of the Presence of God
(Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2005), 19.

9
. Ibid., 23.

10
. Mark Twain,
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1963), 134.

11
. See Joni Eareckson Tada interview with Hank Hanegraff,
Bible Answer Man
radio program, December 8, 1999;
www.forgottenword.org/joni.html
.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Ibid.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Joni Eareckson Tada and Steven Estes,
When God Weeps: Why
Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997), 132.

Part Three

Chapter Ten: A Wreck Reclaimed

1
. Adapted from “The Golden Age of Hymns: A Gallery of the Hymn Writers Hall of Fame,”
Christian History & Biography
, No. 31, July 1, 1991,
www.ctlibrary.com/ch/1991/issue31/3120.html
.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Titus 3:7.

4
. Adapted from “The Golden Age of Hymns: A Gallery of the Hymn Writers’ Hall of Fame.”

5
. Frances Roberts,
Come Away My Beloved
(Uhrichsville, OH: Promise Press, 2002).

6
. “Man Finds $40,000 Worth of Old Coins,”
Billings Gazette
, October 25, 2004;
http://billingsgazette.com/news/national/article_bceadf99-69f1-5ca0-a645-7234db989c49.html
.

7
. 2 Cor. 4:7.

Chapter Eleven: Charting Your Course

1
.
The Best of F. B. Meyer
, ed. Stephen Sorenson (Colorado Springs: Cook Communications, 2000), 168.

2
. Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell, speaking at a Willowcreek Leadership Conference;
http://www.preachingtoday.com/illustrations/search.html?query=Kirbyjon+Caldwell&type=word&filter=&tone=
.

3
. Robert Waite,
The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1993), 20.

4
. Mfonobong Nsehe,
The Adolf Hitler Book: Essays, Speeches, and
Quotations from Adolf Hitler
(Create Space, 2008), 25.

5
. Trevor Ravenscroft,
The Spear of Destiny
(York Beach, ME: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1982), 91.

6
. Hermann Rauschning,
The Voice of Destruction
(Gretna, LA: Pelican, 2003), 240.

7
. Hermann Rauschning,
Men of Chaos
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1942), 97.

8
. Robert G. L. Waite,
The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler
(New York: Basic Books, 1977), 27.

9
. George Victor,
Hitler: The Pathology of Evil
(Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, 2000), 184.

Chapter Twelve: Untangling Your Knots

1
. For information on the
Arctic Rose
, see Mike Barber, “Coast Guard Makes Final Best Guess on How
Arctic Rose
Went Down,”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
, January 9, 2004,
www.seattlepi.com/local/155952_rose09.html
.

Chapter Thirteen: Your Next Port: Paradise

1
. Henri Nouwen,
Our Greatest Gift
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994), 19–20.