Sermon Outlines of Inspiration (ePub)

My name is, Douglas McArthur smith, I was born on march 25, 1942, to the parents of jack and Lucille Lockhart smith, in a small coal mining town located at Roseann, Virginia in Buchanan county. My father named me after the great general Douglas McArthur. I am the oldest of 8 siblings. I can remember at the age of 7 on Easter Sunday morning my mother had bought me my first suit of clothes and a tie. While she was getting me dressed, the radio was on and a preacher was preaching his Easter Sunday message. So, as I was listening to him I got in front of a mirror and pretended to preach like him. I was so proud of my little suit and tie that I felt like I was a preacher too. I grew up never dreaming that one day god would call me into the ministry. I also remember at the age of 7 going outside to play with my little brother and we found a dead cat in the yard. I got a shoe box put the cat in and dug it a grave, buried it, then preached its funeral. Fast forward to the age of 18, I went into the army and joined the 82nd airborn division. I served three years. Later on I was honorably discharged and I returned back home, at that time to Logan county, west Virginia. I got a job in the coal mining industry where I spent 40 years, 20 as a general miner and the last 20 as a federal coal mine inspector working for the department of labor, from which I am now retired.
There are many things I could write about myself that I will not put in this narrative. The most important thing is, I was born again in a coal mine after Satan had put me through a terrible week which made me realize that I needed god in my life. I was in a remote area of the mine by myself and I saw a butt end of a timber that had been cut off. The timber was about 14 inches long and I stood it on its end to make myself an altar. I knelt down and called on the name of the lord, he heard me and saved my soul. I was born again, there in that coal mine on February 13, 1972 and baptized February 20, 1972. On

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