Contributed by Melvin Newland on Oct 10, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A preacher’s family had started putting up a nativity scene in their front yard.  All of them were carrying out the little statues to put in the nativity scene.  Finally everything was in place - Mary & Joseph & the manger & the baby, & angels & shepherds & all the barnyard animals.  
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LISTEN MY CHILE
I know you think you been raised ’cause you grown now
but a mama always got to wonder
what else can I say to my child who is black?
I know what you’re thinking
She’s been talkin’ my whole life,
it’s time to let well enough alone, to trust me, to let me be,
but you know your mama,
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jan 3, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Little children can come up with some very interesting ideas.  Listen to what some children wrote to their mothers for Mother’s Day.
        Angie, 8 years old, wrote: "Dear Mother, I’m going to make dinner for you on Mother’s Day.  It’s going to be a surprise.  P.S. I hope you like pizza &
                    
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                    Years ago a young black child was growing up in Cleveland, in a home which he later described as “ materially poor but spiritually  rich.” 
 One day a famous athlete, Charlie Paddock, came to his school to speak to
 the students.  At the time Paddock was considered “ the fastest human being
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 4, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illus.:  Four Preachers Confess
Four preachers met for a friendly gathering. During the conversation one preacher said, “Our people come to us and pour out their hears, confess certain sins and needs. Let’s do the same. Confession is good for the soul.” In due time all agree.  One of them said that
                    
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                    MACHINE GUN PREACHER 
Video Clip Illustration: From wingclips.com (From Machine Gun Preacher clip)
SYNOPSIS: Machine Gun Preacher is the inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Oct 7, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    TOP TEN PREACHERS
A man wrote to a pastor of a large Church saying, "I am visiting your city and I would like to preach in your Church."
The pastor wrote back saying, "Thank you for the offer but we are already sorted for in this area."
The man wrote again saying, "I feel I ought to preach
                    
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                    Bragging Boys
Three boys in the schoolyard were bragging about their fathers. The first boy says, “My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he then calls it a poem, they give him $50.00.”
 
The second boy says, “That’s nothing, My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 24, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illus.:  “A Lesson on Magnets”
A teacher had just given her 2nd grade class a lesson on magnets.  Now came the question session.  She asked the class, “My name starts with an M and I pick up
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Steve on Mar 8, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A teacher gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does.  The next day in a written test, she included this question: “My full name has six letters.  The first one is M, and I pick up things.  What am I?”  When the grades were all
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    INFLUENCE THE WORLD
Whenever I held my newborn babe in my arms, I used to think what I did and what I said to him would have an influence, not only on him, but on everyone he meets, not for a day, or a year, but for all time and for eternity.  What a challenge, what a joy! 
SOURCE:  Rose Kennedy,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    YOU’RE THE BEST
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you’ll be a general; if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope."  Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.  
SOURCE:  Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist. Citation:  Celebrating Mother: A Book
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    CAN YOU HEAR THEM?
You too, my mother, read my rhymes, 
For love of forgotten times, 
And you may chance, to hear once more, 
The little feet along the floor
SOURCE:  Robert Louis Stevenson.  Citation:  The
                    
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