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                    There is a big difference between batting practice and playing ball. It is common for pro-ball players to describe the overwhelming power of the of the sound of thousands cheering them on. In a sense our life is the game and the cloud of witnesses, heroes, our audience
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    An Australian primary school banned a teacher after she told a class of six year olds that Santa Claus does not exist.
Angry parents from the Corowa public school demanded action when some children arrived home in tears after a reserve teacher, on her first day on the job, told them their parents
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was once an absent-minded professor who became so absorbed in his work that he forgot the simplest details. One morning his wife said, "Now Henry, remember, we are moving today. Here, I’m putting this note in your pocket. Don’t forget." The day passed by and the man came home to his house. He
                    
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                    It was a 99-degree September day in San Antonio, when a 10-month-old baby girl was accidentally locked inside a parked car by her aunt. Frantically the mother and aunt ran around the auto in near hysteria, while a neighbor attempted to unlock the car with a clothes hanger. Soon the infant was
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A CLOSE CALL
Edward Steichen, who eventually became one of the world’s most renowned photographers, almost gave up on the day he shot his first pictures. At 16, young Steichen bought a camera and took 50 photos. Only one turned out -- a portrait of his sister at the piano. Edward’s father thought
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN QUIET
In the summer of 1959, my father left his two sons on the side of a South Dakota road with only their comic books.  They had been fighting and screaming in the back seat and despite repeated warnings they continued to be boys.  
I remember the feeling of watching the car
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 14, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    OPRAH MAKES IT TO HEAVEN 
Forget her TV rankings. Among a group of 15 prominent figures, Oprah Winfrey is a winner in the biggest rating game of all. In a recent survey, 66 percent of Americans said they believe that the popular talk show host is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to go to heaven.
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Labate on Feb 19, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    King Henry III grew tired of court life and the pressures of being the king so he applied to a monastery to be accepted for a life of contemplation.  The religious superior said to him, “Your Majesty, do you understand that the pledge here is one of obedience?  That will be hard because you have
                    
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                    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Apr 13, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I read a true story about a young man who was called into the Civil war between the States. He made it back from the war without even a scratch. But when he got home, he learned that his father had died. He went out to the barn where his father used to milk the cows and saw a strange thing. He saw
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 19, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Donald Barnhouse tells of the time when a prairie fire swept across his father’s land & burned everything, house, buildings, crops, everything.
        Later on, his dad was walking across the burned ground, kicking this object & that.  Finally, he came to a charred piece of something that looked
                    
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                    Contributed by Wayne Major on Apr 10, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I was reminded of a story I read once about a mother who would listen with her young children to an instructional program on the radio each morning.  She particularly enjoyed the exercise class.  One day she tuned in late, only to hear an energetic instructor already urging pupils along at a fast
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One day as I was picking the toys up off the floor,
I noticed a small hand print on the wall beside the door.
I knew that it was something that I’d seen most every day,
but this time when I saw it there, I wanted it to stay.
Then tears welled up inside my eyes, I knew it wouldn’t last,
for every
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 19, 2006
                
                
                
                    It seems that people haven’t got a clue about spiritual truth.  Many believe that the dead are roaming the earth as spirits or ghosts to help or haunt the living.  Dale Earnhart Jr. in his account of his narrow escape from a burning sports car, as his Dad (Dale Earnhart SR  -deceased) pulled him
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 20, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "The religious dead play at a façade of piety while trusting that the big check they dropped in the plate today will cover for their indulgence in the lusts of the flesh yesterday.  
  They take a week or two to travel to a third world country and pass out rice and Bibles and that washes away any
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 8, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Quote from Generation Me by Jean Twenge- Young people have learned these self-lessons very well. In a letter to her fans in 2004, Britney Spears, 23, listed her priorities as "Myself, my husband, Kevin, and starting a family." We don’t have to hear that twice to get the point.  We take it for
                    
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