Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 22, 2007
                
                
                
                    Stephen Boissoin, is the director of the Alberta Youth Outreach Foundations “Cave” youth centre initiatives. In 2002, he was investigating funding opportunities for his ministry on the Alberta Human Rights Commission’s website. “To my disbelief” he states, “I came across a page that highlighted an
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric  Ferguson on May 27, 2008
                
                
                
                    Illustration: The brick
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar.
He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. 
As his car passed, no children appeared.
                    
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                    AN INADEQUATE CONSTITUTION
  
   For most of our history we have remained a religious people.  From the very first moment that Americans officially declared themselves before the world to be one people, they appealed to the “Creator” and the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” From the brave
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 27, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [Beauty’s True Source, Citation: Jim Congdon]
A jarring TV commercial didn’t say a word. It simply shows a series of people who have one thing in common—a nasty injury or scar. There’s a cowboy with a huge scar around his eye, and something wrong with the eye itself; a fellow with a bulbous
                    
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                    The wife God made for Adam:
God could have been jealous and desired that Adam would only relate to Him, but he lovingly realized that Adam was incomplete by himself.  His aloneness was short of perfection, so God formed a special partner to compliment and complete Adam.  God did not make a carbon
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Aug 16, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Two elderly women were out driving in a large car. Both could barely see over the dashboard. As they were cruising along they came to an intersection. The light was red, but they went on through. The woman on the passenger seat thought to herself,
"I must be losing it; I could have sworn we just
                    
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                    CONVERTED NOT ONCE, BUT OFTEN
A person of no less stature than Ruth Graham, the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary and the wife of a world-famous evangelist, struggled with this idea of a "moment of conversion." She was raised in the faith and knew that she was secure in Christ, and yet she
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Malone on Jun 6, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    What Prayer Is…
Prayer is coming into the presence of God…
Prayer is entering the throne room of the KING of kings and LORD of lords…
Prayer is taking our concerns to the one who cares for me
Prayer is to stand on holy ground… 
Prayer is communicating with the creator of the world…(the one spoke
                    
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                    	A couple of years ago, Newsweek magazine ran an article on “Faith and Healing.”  The article began with this unsettling story: “On a quiet Saturday afternoon, Ming He, a fourth-year medical student in Dallas, came across a man dying in the VA Hospital.  Suffering from a rare cancer and hooked up
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 8, 2010
                
                
                
                    EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND: WHY ARE WE HERE FIRST?
In the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond, little Alley begins asking some questions about babies.  Raymond, the father, gets nervous and refuses to answer her questions.  Later on, Raymond realizes that he needs to answer his daughter’s questions. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Turner on Jul 15, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE
Today I make this day my Dependence Day by making this declaration;
Declaration of Dependence
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for an individual to dissolve the sinful bond which has connected them to a sinful ruler; they should declare the
                    
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                    Main Idea: God is perfect and He cannot tolerate any sin in His presence. 
Verse: “As for God, His way is perfect” (Psalms 18:30 NKJV). 
Illustration: Once there was a famous conductor who was asked to direct a world class orchestra. He chose a famous piece of music and the orchestra gathered
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 11, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Don Richardson, in his book Eternity in Their Hearts, tells an amazing story of spiritual harvest.  In an area once called Burma, which is now modern Myanmar, lying between China and Thailand, and touching the border of Laos, there lived about a quarter-million tribal people called the Lahu. For
                    
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                    NO TITLES AND NO DEEDS?
There was a terrible earthquake in California many years ago. Thousands of homes were destroyed and the state was in chaos.
Many people were claiming the homes they lived in as their own.
The courthouse and all the titles and deeds were destroyed completely.
The gas lines
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 11, 2006
                
                
                
                    My Accident
	My life was normal and unexpecting of tragedy when the bumper of a LTD came crashing into my back I had no time to repent like I always figured I would if I would have died it would have been at a moment that I was angry and frustrated and I can't  say that I was as comfortable in my
                    
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