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                    Illus.:   “To Build a Bridge”
The Brooklyn Bridge is truly a miracle bridge.  In 1863, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea for this spectacular span.  Bridge-building experts throughout the world told him it was a crazy idea and that he should forget it.  It couldn’t be
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2013
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    HOW NOT TO BUILD
I grew up around construction and building material people. My family, for several generations, was in lumber and building materials.
In 1998 we opened a new hardware store in Lake Mary. I ran it from the time it opened, until I went to seminary. Part of my responsibility was to
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric  Ferguson on Aug 5, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    BUILDING A CATHEDRAL
A man once walked by a building site and saw three stone masons side by side, sweating over their work in the hot sun.
He asked the first, "What are you doing?"
"Laying bricks" came the reply.
He asked the second stone mason, "And what are you doing?"
"Building a wall."
                    
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                    Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 15, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    BUILDING ETERNALLY, NOT ETERNITY
Sarah Winchester’s husband had acquired a fortune by manufacturing and selling rifles. After he died of influenza in 1918, she moved to San Jose, California.
Sarah was convinced that the dead souls of the many Indians who lost their lives because of Winchester
                    
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                    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Oct 13, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GOD IS BUILDING A TESTIMONY
A young man in his 20s came to faith in Christ after many years of bad choices and consequences and of breaking the hearts of his mother and others around him.  The reality of his genuine conversion was proven over the dramatic change that continued throughout his life.
                    
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                    Contributed by David  Yarbrough on Mar 24, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was a tenant in an apartment building who was a widow woman who loved God dearly.  Her landlord on the other hand despised God and her faith.  One day she ran out of food and money and with no one to help she turned to God in prayer.  She prayed, “Oh dear God please help me in my time of
                    
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                    Contributed by Shane Brooks on Nov 4, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    After the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, The Chaplain of Bourbon Street, Bob Harrington, was asked by the governor of Oklahoma, to come be a spiritual prescence. After a few days there,one officer approached the Chaplain and said, "A few hours ago, one of our fire fighters found
                    
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                    Contributed by Douglas Vincent on May 28, 2004
                
                
                
                    Building a house is always a serious undertaking.
I was about 5 years old when my uncle began showing me how to build a card house.  He taught me three different ways in which I could stack the cards.  Each time he would start and I would want to jump right in after him and start building the house
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 22, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is a plaque on a church building in England that reads like this: "In the year 1653, when all things sacred throughout the land were either demolished or profaned, Sir Robert Shirley built this church. His singular praise is this: To have done the best of things in the worst of times." In
                    
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                    Contributed by W F on Jul 3, 2006
                
                
                
                    What bricks and mortar are to a building, a marriage is to a community in which it lives and loves. There can be no doubt that a community will crumble and collapse if marriage is allowed to crumble and collapse. And history is strewn with example after example of this. 
The Roman empire is just
                    
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                    Contributed by Kraig Pullam on Oct 22, 2006
                
                
                
                    -	The church is a body, not just a building and a budget.
-	The church is not an
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive
                    
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