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                    Dallas Williams: You give me a 1000 words and I can have The Lords Prayer,The 23rd Psalm, The original Hippocratic oath, a Shakespearian sonnet, the preamble to the Constitution,Lincoln’s
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 14, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILL.  I like the story about a rather legalistic Seminary student who wanted to have a scriptural basis for everything he did.  He felt he was on solid ground if he could quote Bible book, chapter & verse to okay his actions.
   He did all right with that until he began to fall in love with a
                    
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The Bible is referred to in many different ways. We speak of it as God's Word, the Good Book, the Holy Scriptures, and the Sword of the Spirit. It is also known as the Book of books and the Living Word. Some call it simply THE Book, for nothing else seems necessary. It stands alone, towering
                    
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                    Illustration from Michael McCartney-- A case in point of some one thinking incorrectly.
 Last Wednesday night I had an individual come to church. He was drunk and came into the café building being provocative and vulgar with me. He said, “Pastor Mike I have come to get you to beat the devil out of
                    
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                    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 2, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ON SELF-CONTROL
When I’m at the pizza buffet and I’ve already had more than enough to eat, and I know there’s a good chance another slice will make me miserable for the next 3-4 hours and I eat it anyway .... I lack self control. 
When I decide to stay up late and play video games or surf the
                    
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                    Contributed by James Botts on Aug 29, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    We live in the age of information overload.  Consider the following: 
Ø	New York Times contains more factual information in one edition than all the written materials available to a reader in the 15th century.  
Ø	In 1472 the finest university library in the world was Queen’s College, Cambridge, it
                    
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                    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 21, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WHEN KNUTE ROCKNE was coaching at Notre Dame, a sports columnist in the South Bend newspaper earned the reputation of being the meanest and cruelest writer in the country.  This anonymous writer wrote about the teams weaknesses, pointed out the mistakes of individual players and told them they were
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Aug 30, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In 1964, Drs. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of Bell Labs encountered continuous static on certain microwave frequencies. Rotating their antenna in a vain attempt to remove the noise, they realized it was coming from
all directions -- permeating the universe. Physicists hailed this as the first
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Nov 29, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE BEST PREACHER IN THE FAMILY
G. Campbell Morgan, a profound British preacher whose four sons all became pastors, influenced millions with his preaching, teaching and writing. 
One day, when his young son Howard finished preached, a reporter asked him, "Since you have five Pastors in your
                    
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                    Contributed by Tony Britt on Feb 6, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jacob Koshy grew up in Singapore with one driving ambition: to be a success in life, to gain all the money and possessions he could. That led him into the world of drugs and gambling, and eventually he became the lord of an international smuggling network. In 1980, he was arrested and placed in a
                    
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                    Contributed by Steven Platt on Mar 8, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Here are some opening lines to books or poems.  See if you recognize them.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" -A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
"Call me Ishmael" -Moby Dick – Herman Melville
"Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after
                    
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                    "Quaker philospher  Elton Trueblood described our society as a "cut- flower" civilization.  The basic Christian truths have built it, but if we are disconnected from our roots, our ideals and ethics eventually fade and die. If we successfully give Christ to the next generation, we must hand his
                    
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                    Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Oct 26, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I was reminded of just how much God does to preserve his TRUTH this week.  A wee little voice on the telephone answering machine said, “I think you’ll want to read the Newspaper today.  There’s a front-page story that you don’t want to miss.  Here it is – on the front page of the San Antonio
                    
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                    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jan 20, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Charles Swindoll lists what he calls the "four spiritual flaws": 
	Flaw #1:  Because you are a Christian, all your problems are solved.  (Please do tell non-Christian this.)
	Flaw # 2:  All the problems you will ever have are addressed in the Bible.  (When your computer crashes, please don’t go to
                    
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