Contributed by C Jordan on Jul 3, 2010
                
                
                
                    QUOTE:  (Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer).
"The disciples had learned to understand something of the connection between Christ’s wondrous life in public and His secret life of prayer. They had been with Him and had seen Him pray. They had learned to believe in Him as a Master in
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 3, 2011
                
                
                
                    WRANGLERS, NOT STRANGLERS
Ted Engstrom tells about a literary group that once gathered at the University of Wisconsin.  The members wanted to be poets, novelists, essayists and authors--and they had the talent to be successful.  These young men met regularly to read and critique each other’s work.
                    
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                    WHAT A WASTE...??
There was a young man who grew up just down the block from my wife Jan. I never met him; I can’t even remember his name. But I know about him. I think about him every time I’m in the neighborhood.
This boy didn’t attract much notice as he was growing up. He studied mostly. He
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 31, 2007
                
                
                
                    I’ve been set afire by Ed Stetzer’s book, Comeback Churches.  He did a study that examined 324 churches from 10 denominations that recently experienced renewed growth by conversion after a significant period of plateau and/or decline.
Not all comeback churches were contemporary. Many were blended.
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 19, 2006
                
                
                
                    HAND IN HAND, NOT EYE TO EYE
There is a study by James Dobson that reveals that men use about 25,000 words a day, but women use 50,000. Now, ladies when you say, "My husband just won’t listen to me..." You’ve got to realize he doesn’t have the brain with the capacity to hold as much as you can
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Sep 16, 2008
                
                
                
                    Topography, Basketball and the Gospel
Jack went to an Ivy League School and was a star on the basketball team and graduated with a degree in topography – that is, the study of mapping. What do basketball and topography have to do with the Gospel? Nothing. Except that years later Jack found himself
                    
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                    THE IMPORTANCE OF RELATIONSHIPS
I recently read some interesting statistics that show how IMPORTANT relationships are in our lives.  The American Institute of Stress conducted research on 232 patients who had undergone cardiac surgery. Of those patients, 21 died within six months.  
Here are two
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 17, 2009
                
                
                
                    KNOWLEDGE AND DISCIPLINE WIN THE GAME
Did you watch the Illinois vs. Arizona basketball game of the 2005 NCAA tournament in March 2005? Illinois was losing by fifteen points with only 2:50 seconds left.  The coach had a meeting with the players to pump them up to continue to contend for the
                    
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                    In 1995 Nathan Frederick Klimosko, 21, was sentenced to two years’ probation in Kelowna, British Columbia, for hitting and choking his girlfriend into unconsciousness. The fight started in a car when the two disagreed over his interpretation of a certain passage from the
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 4, 2009
                
                
                
                    C.S. Lewis said: 
"Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often themselves quite mistaken as to what their motives are." 
(As quoted in: Barton, Bruce B.:
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 4, 2010
                
                
                
                    APPLICATION: Draw smaller circles as you tell this story. God’s promises here in Psalm 125 are not for mankind. No, it is much narrower than that. It is not for religious men, for Baptist men, nor for Bible carrying men. It is not even for all
                    
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