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                    FINISHING IN FAILURE, OR FAITH-- COMMUNION MEDITATION
One of Track and Field’s more interesting events is the high jump.  The high jump and the pole vault are the only events where even the winner finishes in failure.   
Right after the jumper clears one heighth, the bar is raised.  The bar is
                    
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                    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 27, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    >>When “Old Blue Eye’s” died in May 1998 at the age of 82 everyone agreed: There will never be another Sinatra.  Sinatra had an amazing career; he even topped Elvis!  He holds the record of 40 consecutive years with a song on the billboard charts.  One of those chart topping songs was “I Did It My
                    
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                    Perseverance--Gianni Poli of Italy won the 1986 New York Marathon in 2:11:06.  On March 2, 2003, Mark Yatich of Kenya won the Los Angels Marathon in 2:09:52.  To me, however, the real hero of both marathons was the man who finished dead last in both.  He is fifty-seven year old Bob Wieland.  In
                    
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                    Contributed by Greg Buchner on May 5, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Forgiven and Pardoned (source: Illustrations Unlimited)
It reminds me of the story of a young employee who secretly misappropriated several hundred dollars of his business firm’s money. When this action was discovered, he walked up the stars toward the administrative office he was told to report
                    
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                    Contributed by John Shearhart on May 14, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Back in the eighteenth century, a young boy was born into a Christian home. For the first six years of his life, he heard the truths of the gospel and he was loved. Sadly, though, his parents died. The orphaned boy went to live with his relatives. There he was mistreated and abused and ridiculed
                    
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                    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Jun 21, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A Christian father lives by the instruction of Colossians 3:12, “…as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.   James 4:10 says, “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.”  
“Humility”
                    
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                    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Dec 21, 2012
                
                
                
                    Gabriel Hurles was enjoying his sixth birthday party. He was so focused on eating his birthday cake, that he hardly noticed the giant package in the corner of the room. When another child pointed out the large gift, Gabriel ran over and began to tear off the wrapping. It wasn’t a bicycle or any of
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LEIGHTON FORD--Leighton Ford is a minister and a brother-in-law to Billy Graham. Leighton’s son Sandy died an untimely death. Leighton wrote a book about his son. The following is taken from that publication.
"When Sandy was alive, he sometimes made his friends a little uncomfortable by being
                    
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                    I KNOW BECAUSE I SEE
The fingerprints of God are everywhere in nature!  Faith - at least in part - is the spiritual seeing or perceiving of the fingerprints on the things he has made.  We see the order, the beauty, the greatness, the complexity of what he has made - and these are the evidence that
                    
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                    Contributed by Jordon Leblanc on Aug 8, 2008
                
                
                
                    Rocky and Spiritual Victory
When I think of training, my mind often wanders to almost every underdog movie from the 80's and early 90's. Maybe you know what I mean. 
Think of Rocky...any Rocky, really. Have you seen that movie? Yea, I thought so. If you're not familiar with the movies, let me
                    
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