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A well-known coach was once asked,
“How much does college football contribute to the national physical-fitness picture?”
“Nothing,” the coach replied abruptly.
“Why not?” the startled interviewer asked.
“Well,” said the coach, “the way I see it, you have 22 men down on the field desperately
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Contributed by Robert Jones on Dec 29, 2000
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John Maxwell—in his book “ Be a people person”-----states—“Until I am committed, there is a hesitancy, a chance to draw back. But the moment I definitely commit myself, then God moves also, and a whole steam of events erupt. All manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings, persons, and material
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Contributed by Jeeva Sam on Mar 20, 2001
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A man visited his longtime friend, a British military officer stationed in an African jungle. One day when the friend entered the officer’s hut, he was startled to see him dressed in formal attire and seated at a table set with silverware and fine china. The visitor asked why he was all dressed up
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 23, 2001
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NO SHORT CUT TO SANCTITY
“The temptation to make our relation to God judicial instead of personal is very strong. Believing for salvation has these days been reduced to a once-done act that requires no further attention. The young believer becomes aware of an act performed rather than of a living
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on May 25, 2001
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Counterfit bills are never made in odd denominations($3 or $8 or $12) but are meant to imitate the real thing. At first glance they seem real, you may have passed them along without knowing it. But there is always something bogus about them, some blur or omition, something that doesn’t exactly
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2001
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I once read that during the Korean War, a group of believers were in a little chapel when communist soldiers barged in with machine guns. One of the soldiers said, "Everybody, get up!" So they got off their knees. He said, "Line up against the wall!" They did. Then that soldier ripped a picture of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2001
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When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, I am told that the captain of the ship transporting him sought to turn him back. "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go
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Contributed by Alan Perkins on Aug 19, 2001
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On April 21st, in the year 1519, the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez sailed into the harbor of Vera Cruz, Mexico. He brought with him only about 600 men, and yet over the next two years his vastly outnumbered forces were able to defeat Montezuma and all the warriors of the Aztec empire, making
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Contributed by Mary Lewis on Sep 24, 2001
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Dale Hays tells of a Haitian pastor who told his congregation this gruesome parable:
A certain man wanted to sell his house for $2,000. Another man wanted very badly to buy it, but because he was poor, he couldn’t afford the full price. After much bargaining, the owner agreed to sell the house for
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Contributed by Daryl Bahn on Oct 5, 2001
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A life that is lived focused inward on ourselves and downward on material things is a self-defeating life. It can be compared to a black hole—the more you possess, the more you collapse under your own weight. There is another life, though: a
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Contributed by Greg Yount on Nov 30, 2001
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Bible teacher A.T. Pierson tells about a new convert to Christ who had a strange dream in which
he was trapped down a very deep well in the night. He looked up and saw a single star shining far above
him, and it seemed to let down lines of silver light that took hold upon him and lifted him up.
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