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                    I read a story recently that illustrates what I’m talking about. Back in the days when racial prejudice was open, vile and violent, a man was raised in the South under the bigotry and prejudice of that day. His mother and father had been killed by whites. He lived with his grandmother and with his
                    
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                    Contributed by Ken Pell on Feb 10, 2008
                
                
                
                    Forgiving One Another -- the Monkey Trap
>>I used this as a children’s sermon to open the worship services<<
I’m going teach to you something this morning. I’m going to show you how to catch a monkey! Do any of you have wild monkeys running around your neighborhood? Well, in case there ever is
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 13, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    From George Foremans book -God is my corner 
“Ultimately your belief in God will meet resistance, which forces you to either shut up or speak up.”  
     After giving his testimony at Robert Schuller’s church, the Crystal Cathedral, he panicked when he discovered it would be broadcast nationwide. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
                
                
                
                    I recently met a new friend we’ll call Mike
Mike told me his testimony 
Mike believed he was saved
Was going through life as a saved man, but not really on fire for God
Things that should have negatively affected him, his friends behavior, his environment , didn’t 
He just ignored those things and
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 12, 2008
                
                
                
                    5411 The Key … After 29 Floors
Three men, John Newton, Louis Weatherford, and Samuel Preston, were out to find the best that this life had to offer. Willing to try anything, they were now on their way to New York City to “to the Ambassador Hotel, a twenty-nine floor building. Upon entering the
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 16, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WHY DOES GOD ALLOW HARDSHIP?
We live in a mixed-up, messed-up world. Sometimes terrible things happen that don't make any sense at all, and we wonder why?
Steven Curtis Chapman is one of the best known singer-songwriters of contemporary Christian music. Over the last 15 or 20 years his songs have
                    
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                    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Caterpillar  Ugly, Butterfly Beautiful
It is a well-known fact that a caterpillar changes into a butterfly.  The butterfly can truthfully say as he looks at the caterpillar,  "Such was I,  but now I am changed."
Every Christian has once been a sinner, living for self and the momentary pleasures
                    
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                    Text, 1 Samuel 17:20-21, KJV: 20And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. 21For Israel and the Philistines had put the
                    
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                    In Paul's day, every city in Greece built a public place called the Bema, or “judgment seat”. It was from this raised platform, usually in the center of town, that official announcements were made, judgments rendered and commendations handed out. All public proclamations came from this Bema
                    
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                    Let’s go back to Genesis 2:16-17 to review exactly what God said and then we’ll compare it to the distortion Eve came up with: “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, ‘You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in
                    
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