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                    From rags to riches. These kinds of stories always excite us somewhat. They are feel-good stories and they always offer to the common person a bit of encouragement to make something of ourselves in life. HAVEN’T WE ALL DREAMED AT ONE TIME OF PERHAPS DOING SOMETHING GREAT OR EXTRA-ORDINARY?
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                    Mark Buchanan’s shares an illustration from Leadership magazine in its Fall 2004 edition on pages 52, 53:
General Maximus comes to Rome dirty and shackled. This is not the way it’s suppose to be. Where’s Rome’s legendary pageantry to greet one of her heroes-the heraldry, the burnished armor, the
                    
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                    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Sep 30, 2005
                
                
                
                    Recently, our family returned to some familiar memories and a week of nostalgia for me personally. Webster’s tells us that nostalgia means, a longing for familiar or beloved circumstances that are now remote or irretrievable. 
Sun Lakes is the Palm Springs of Eastern Washington - 95° during the
                    
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                    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 26, 2009
                
                
                
                    "Margaret Waage wrote of an especially important Christmas eve in her life. She got off her job at noon and stood dejectedly in the crowd waiting for the subway train. She had worked by herself all morning since her fellow workers had been given the day off. Now many people around her were talking
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 10, 2010
                
                
                
                    "MUSIC TO RAISE THE DEAD", an album from a Christian Rock group called Resurrection startled the Christian world with it's intensity in the 1970's. They did this in a day when many conservative pastors and evangelists actively thundered their warnings from the pulpit against the evils of rock music
                    
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                    AMISH GRACE AND FORGIVENESS
Following the tragic Amish school shooting of 10 young schoolgirls in a one-room Amish school in October 2006, reporters from throughout the world invaded Lancaster County, PA to cover the story. However, in the hours and days following the shooting a different, an
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Redder on May 17, 2018
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Some time ago I returned from a missions trip completely full of faith and ready to set the world on fire with the love of Christ. During my first church service back in the states I was asked to close our service in prayer. I joyfully obliged and went whole-heartedly into prayer full of faith and
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 24, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The world wide web  is amazing  all that information being passed down phone lines  coming down onto our screens from all over the world  right into our homes, I don’t really know how it works,  its mind boggling, But I know it does work and I enjoy it.  
Over the last few months  in our house the
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 13, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Friends
The year: 1994. The date: September 22nd. The debut of a new American sitcom: Friends. The plot: Six twenty-somethings, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find companionship, comfort and support they get from one another to be the ideal solution to the pressures of
                    
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                    Hebrew scholar Gensenius, says that the meaning of the Old Testament word for "meekness" involves "a lowly, pious, and modest mind, which prefers to bear injuries rather than return them." Meekness is not only the opposite of pride, but of stubbornness, fierceness, and
                    
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                    Ordinary Joe – An Unsung Hero
There are many characters in the cast of the Christmas story that have gripped the Church’s imagination but there’s one that has rarely had a place in the spotlight. Joseph.
There’s the Magi, exotic and somehow still gleaming in their silks after the long, dusty road
                    
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                    Message to Garcia
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	In all this Cuban business there is one man who stands out on the horizon of my memory.  When war broke out between Spain and the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the insurgents.  Garcia was somewhere in the
                    
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