SEPARATE: STAYING IN RANKS
The word "separate" is a military term, and it means to "stay in ranks." My son Jason just graduated from an intensive 9-week school for Drill Sergeants (we Brownworths never seem to finish going to school!).  He will now be responsible for training as many as 240 "raw"
                    
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                    Our commitment in the service of Lord in very important in building the body of Christ. And I challenge you to commit your life in the ministry: Confidently, wholeheartedly and absolutely for the glory of God.
Illustrations. In Yorkshire, England, during the early 1800s, two sons were born to a
                    
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                    Introduction ~ In 1959, Thomas Hoving, of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, bought an ivory crucifix from a Yugoslavian art collector, despite the fact that it lacked its central figure ~ the body of Christ. The cross had been stored in a Swiss bank vault for years but, unbeknown to Hoving, for the
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
                
                
                
                    Saving blood drives!  Kalani, Kaiser holding life-saving blood drives!
Everybody has it!	Everybody needs it!
	„» Cancer	„» Heart and blood vessel disease  „» Emergencies such as car accidents/burns 
This red liquid carries oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body, and carries carbon dioxide
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Mar 13, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Sir Douglas Bader was a pilot who lost both his legs in a plane crash before WW2.  He was fitted with artificial legs & resumed flying.  In 1939, when Germany & England went to war, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force.
Flying with two artificial legs, he shot down 22 enemy airplanes in the Battle
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Apr 4, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDE
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of Attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important: than facts, than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do, than appearances, than
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    NOT WHY, BUT WHAT
Technically speaking, David Ring was born dead. Quick acting medical personnel were able to get him breathing, but oxygen deprivation left him with cerebral palsy. He suffered from a speech impediment, hands that don’t cooperate, and a limp. As if that wasn’t enough adversity for
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    MISSING OUT
Leith Anderson, a pastor, shares an experience of disappointment. 
As a boy, he grew up outside of New York City and was an avid fan of the old Brooklyn Dodgers. One day his father took him to a World Series game between the Dodgers and the Yankees. He was so excited, and he just knew
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Mar 10, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Giant steps 
Marathon the latest goal in a life of challenges. 
Katie Lynch, 26, practicing for Monday’s Boston Marathon with a special Walker.  (Globe Staff Photo / JohnTlumacki)
By John Vellante, Globe Staff, 4/14/01
WAYLAND 
Her life -- all 26-plus years of it -- has been one challenge after
                    
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                    Contributed by Bryan Ness on Sep 4, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Viktor was seated in a crowded train headed for Budapest.  He was one of the leading bee experts in Hungary and he was transporting a box of bees, which he had placed under his seat.  He was enjoying the passing scenery and the cool breeze coming from the open window.  As he was talking to the
                    
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                    “Laughter Really is the Best medicine” states Sue Casiglia – Lets look at some highlights from her study:
a.	The affect of laughter on the body is immediate. Laughing actually lowers blood pressure, reduces stress hormones and increases muscle flexion. 
b.	It also increases your resistance level to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Oct 11, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PERSPECTIVE:  Adapted.  The author is Linda Senese
On Monday there were people fighting against praying in schools. 
On Tuesday you would have been hard pressed to find a school where someone was not praying. 
On Monday there were people were trying to separate each other by race, sex, color and
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Nov 15, 2002
                
                
                
                    "Author Leo Buscaglia tells this story about his mother and their "misery dinner." It was the night after his father came home and said it looked as if he would have to go into bankruptcy because his partner had absconded with their firm’s funds. His mother went out and sold some jewelry to buy
                    
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                    Contributed by Adam Deibert on May 7, 2004
                
                
                
                    I remember once, a time when I was really worried about something.  There was a trial I was facing, and I wasn’t sure what to do or how I was going to get through it.  I called a dear friend of mine, my mentor, and was sharing my burden with her, when all at once in the middle of my telling her how
                    
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                    Video Clip: From Backstage – Ginny Owens in this interview talks about the obstacles she has had to overcome in life to get to were she is at today. Ginny’s biggest obstacle and mountain in her life is her blindness and she talks about how she is overcoming it.
The reality of life is there are
                    
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