The Pineapple Story Series
by Otto Koning
In his entertaining style, veteran missionary Otto Koning shares 15 humorous and inspirational messages, beginning with the story of how a pineapple garden taught him the important lesson of yielding personal rights. These lively, true stories from his missionary experiences in Irian Jaya/Papua New Guinea are encouraging and motivating for all ages.Visit the Otto Koning page on SermonIndex:https://sermonindex.net/speakers/otto-koning
Episodes
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15. The Weapons of Our Warfare
There could not be a more fitting capstone for the Pineapple Story series than The Weapons of Our Warfare. Found throughout Scripture, these five commanded responses make up a single, invincible tactical toolbox for the Christian soldier. Met with a variety of challenges on the homefront, in...
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14.5: The Weapon of Love (Alternate Version)
“Love conquers all” . . . when it is that perfect and unconditional love which flows from the Father through believers willing to obey a command like “Love your enemies”. And if anyone would know, it would be a missionary to cannibals and headhunters–but what about Soho and Ketoho, Otto Koning’s...
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14. The Weapon of Love
“Love conquers all” . . . when it is that perfect and unconditional love which flows from the Father through believers willing to obey a command like “Love your enemies”. And if anyone would know, it would be a missionary to cannibals and headhunters–but what about Soho and Ketoho, Otto Koning’s...
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13. The Weapon of Prayer
The prayer team was split. They had been asked to pray for a cancer patient to be healed and yet they knew that there were significant ways God could be glorified whether he was healed or not. On the mission field earlier, Otto Koning had been confused in a similar way when fervent prayers for…
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12. The Weapon of Rejoicing
Have you noticed that significant spiritual growth often comes in the wake of a situation that seemed completely devoid of any potential for good? In such tests of faith we see in new ways that the point of transformation is one and the same as the time we choose to rejoice and give thanks. In…
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11.5: The Snake Story (Alternate Version)
Snakes symbolize the powers of evil in more cultures than one. In The Snake Story, an introduction to the weapons of our spiritual warfare and the second part of the Pineapple Series, Otto Koning recounts the terrifying moment of truth when it came time to prove on the field in the jungles of New...
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11. The Snake Story - The Weapon of Resisting
Snakes symbolize the powers of evil in more cultures than one. In The Snake Story, an introduction to the weapons of our spiritual warfare and the second part of the Pineapple Series, Otto Koning recounts the terrifying moment of truth when it came time to prove on the field in the jungles of New...
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10. A Widow Who Became a Channel of God’s Power
God still looks for stewards, on whose behalf He may show Himself strong, and use in miraculous ways to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Before sharing his heart for the unreached people groups of the world, Otto Koning shares several examples of how God rewards us when we make the choice to…
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9. The Surprising Ways of God
This is the story of the way God prepared a missionary for his people group and a people group for their missionary. On Otto Koning’s part, the Lord used his growing up years in Holland during World War II followed by a turbulent immigration into Canada to prepare him with a message of…
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8. Miracles in the Jungle
What do you do when those to whom you are called refuse to believe? What if, after years of language study, persuasive speaking, or hard work, your audience still seems unconvinced, blinded to the truth? Are you a failure? This was Otto Koning’s dilemma as a missionary to the tribes of New…
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7. Divine Appointments
“Because He had seen heaven.” With these words at the conclusion of his message, Otto Koning details how Christ’s focus on the things of eternity enabled Him to make the most of His short time on earth. Throughout His daily walk He was able to see His heavenly Father turning circumstances into...
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6. God Enjoys the Impossible
The eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him (II Chronicles 16:9), and if this is true, have you ever thought that God really must enjoy doing what we consider impossible? Even in the course of...
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5. Living in God’s Compound
Based on God’s dealing with Job we may receive either comfort or correction when we see our own possessions, family, or health being broken up. Truly, being under God’s authority is the only way to safeguard what He has entrusted to our authority. What do we do if our hedge of protection is…
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4. The Hitchhiking Story
You are a missionary just off the mission field, with a small family to provide for and no supporting mission board. You have one day before the beginning of the Canadian Revival Fellowship retreat, a conference at which you may have the chance to make contacts and line up speaking engagements…
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3. From Failure to Victory
Oftentimes, problems are merely God’s way of getting our attention. Why then do we wait so long to give our rights to Him? In this session, Otto Koning amplifies the principle of yielding rights and abundantly illustrates how the Lord will turn around impossible situations to His glory when we…
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2. God’s Grade School
The surrender of pineapples and possessions was not the end of the story for Otto Koning. Before he knew it came the second and third grade in God’s school of surrender. Through the same tribal people of the southern swamplands and their need for a genuine demonstration of servant leadership, God...
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1. The Pineapple Story
A firsthand account of how God used a pineapple garden in the jungles of Papua New Guinea to teach an angry missionary the unexpected results of obeying Luke 14:33: “So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.” The Pineapple Story is a...
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In his entertaining style, veteran missionary Otto Koning shares 15 humorous and inspirational messages, beginning with the story of how a pineapple garden taught him the important lesson of yielding personal rights. These lively, true stories from his missionary experiences in Irian Jaya/Papua New Guinea are encouraging and motivating for all ages.Visit the Otto Koning page on SermonIndex:https://sermonindex.net/speakers/otto-koning
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