Title: What If...
Theme: Considering the greatest if ever mentioned
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: 1 Corinthians 15: 12 - 23
Easter Morning Sermon
I - Our Foolish Observance (12 - 15)
II - Our Fictious Deliverance (16 - 18)
III - Our Fruitless Inheritance (19)
IV - Our Fabulous Assurance (20 - 22)
V - Our Fascinating Expectance (23)
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Beyond The Grave: Contacting Houdini
Ninety-year-old Sid Radner has had a lifelong fascination with Harry Houdini, the legendary escape artist and magician who died on Halloween. And every year on the anniversary of Houdini's death, Radner tries to contact his hero at the Official Houdini Seance.
"Houdini died in '26," Radner says, "and his wife tried to contact him on the anniversary of his death for 10 years."
Houdini, himself, debunked mediums and proved most were frauds. He promised his wife, Bess, that if it were possible to communicate with the dead, he would come back to her, should he die first. And he gave her a code to help prove it.
But after 10 years with no success, Bess stopped trying to contact her husband. "At that point she said, 'Ten years was long enough to wait for any man,'" Radner says.
Radner, however, continued where Houdini's wife left off, "I started doing seances in the '30s," he says. "And as a matter of fact, I own the trademark, the name 'Official Houdini Seance.'"
Radner describes the seances as a group of eight to 12 people sitting and holding hands while trying to contact Houdini. "One time the medium asked for Houdini to make his presence known, and a gal standing around, her beads broke and fell on the floor," he says. "Another time, a book fell down off a shelf. We had some strange things happen."
Radner also owns the largest collection of Houdini artifacts, which were given to him by Houdini's brother, Theodore Hardeen.
Radner met Hardeen at a magic conference and eventually became his pr ...
Theme: Considering the greatest if ever mentioned
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: 1 Corinthians 15: 12 - 23
Easter Morning Sermon
I - Our Foolish Observance (12 - 15)
II - Our Fictious Deliverance (16 - 18)
III - Our Fruitless Inheritance (19)
IV - Our Fabulous Assurance (20 - 22)
V - Our Fascinating Expectance (23)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Beyond The Grave: Contacting Houdini
Ninety-year-old Sid Radner has had a lifelong fascination with Harry Houdini, the legendary escape artist and magician who died on Halloween. And every year on the anniversary of Houdini's death, Radner tries to contact his hero at the Official Houdini Seance.
"Houdini died in '26," Radner says, "and his wife tried to contact him on the anniversary of his death for 10 years."
Houdini, himself, debunked mediums and proved most were frauds. He promised his wife, Bess, that if it were possible to communicate with the dead, he would come back to her, should he die first. And he gave her a code to help prove it.
But after 10 years with no success, Bess stopped trying to contact her husband. "At that point she said, 'Ten years was long enough to wait for any man,'" Radner says.
Radner, however, continued where Houdini's wife left off, "I started doing seances in the '30s," he says. "And as a matter of fact, I own the trademark, the name 'Official Houdini Seance.'"
Radner describes the seances as a group of eight to 12 people sitting and holding hands while trying to contact Houdini. "One time the medium asked for Houdini to make his presence known, and a gal standing around, her beads broke and fell on the floor," he says. "Another time, a book fell down off a shelf. We had some strange things happen."
Radner also owns the largest collection of Houdini artifacts, which were given to him by Houdini's brother, Theodore Hardeen.
Radner met Hardeen at a magic conference and eventually became his pr ...
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