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                    The Art Collector
A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store. He does a double take.
He knows that the saucer is extremely old and very valuable, so he walks casually into the store and offers to buy the cat
                    
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                    I wrote this at the end of 2014
Fourteen years from the Millennium seemed a long time and now we are into a new year – again!!
I have spent much of last week preparing to lead a pilgrimage to Israel – a new experience for me.
And with the new it is good to recall the old.
Our Gospel reading is
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Mar 20, 2010
                
                
                
                    ON TAX COLLECTORS
In Kiev, MONEY CHANGERS sit in little booths with a small window. You can't see their faces, and they mutter to you in Russian as you hand over American dollars in exchange for Grivnas. Whenever I exchanged money, I seemed to be getting more Grivna for my dollar because the
                    
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                    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 25, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I recently went to an art exhibit in Winston-Salem, NC featuring the work of the artist Grandma Moses.  Her art work is best described as American Folk Art with primitive and colorful paintings of rural scenes.  When I look at her work it brings me a warm  and content feeling, despite its
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 15, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Because self-importance is the natural human inclination, a same attitude for you, if you are a leader, will be to remind yourself constantly that the position of leader is not, in the deepest sense, any more important than that of the humblest follower.  Both are simply contributing whatever
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    STOLEN ART
I was surprised to learn that if you had a museum that contained the world’s stolen art, it would be one of the biggest in the world. It would contain 174 Rembrandt’s, 43 Van Gogh’s, over 500 Picassos, and works by Renoir and da Vinci. You may remember that a few years back someone
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 8, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Roy Whetstine was a rock collector whose two sons each had given him five dollars to buy a rock for them at a rock show. One table had a Tupperware container with a large potato-sized rock surrounded by a lot of agates. The sign read: “Any stone $15.” Roy picked up the big rock and asked, “You want
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Jun 27, 2010
                
                
                
                    If thou art rich, thou art poor, for like an ass whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey,
                    
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                    Years ago, there was a very wealthy man who, with his devoted young son, shared a passion for art collecting. Together they traveled around the world, adding only the finest art treasures to their collection. Priceless works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and many others adorned the walls of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Alton Coleman on Feb 1, 2008
                
                
                
                    Worship, honor, power and blessing
Thou art worthy to receive;
Loudest praises without ceasing
Meet it is for us to give.
Help, ye bright angelic spirits,
Bring your sweetest, noblest lays;
Help to sing the Saviour’s
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE ART OF "ONE-ANOTHERING"
"One hot day, Herman Trueblood, all clean and cooled off by a nice swim in the ocean, saw a sweating man and his two sons trying on a hot day to push a disabled car up an incline. Two voices started yelling at each other inside him. One said, "There is an opportunity
                    
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