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                    In his book, Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller talks about the kind of ruts a lot of us tend to get ourselves into. 
He says, ‘The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is about me…. I hear addicts talk about the shakes and panic attacks and the highs and lows of resisting their
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 29, 2006
                
                
                
                    In his book, Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller says some very pointed things about a rut that all of us can get ourselves into. He says, ‘The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is about me…. I hear addicts talk about the shakes and panic attacks and the highs and lows of
                    
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                    Contributed by Stuart Blount on Apr 10, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When VICTOR SERIBRIAKOFF was 15 his teacher told him he would never finish school and that he should drop out and learn a trade.  Victor took the advice and for the next 17 years he was an itinerant doing a variety of odd jobs.  He had been told he was a ‘dunce’ and for 17 years he acted like one. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    What is God like?  This is a question, which has exercised the minds of mankind.  It reminds me of the story of the little girl who was in deep concentration over her drawing.  Her mother asked her what she was drawing and received the curt reply, “God.”  Her mother
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 27, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    It looked like saturday morning TV time at the Van Pelt household.  Lucy and Linus were sitting in front of the television set when Lucy said to Linus, "Go get me a glass of water."
Linus looked surprised, "Why should I do anything for you?  You never do anything for me."
"On you 75th birthday,"
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Malone on Apr 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Sometimes we are like the little boy who was overheard talking to himself as he strutted through the backyard, wearing his baseball cap and toting a ball & bat.  "I’m the greatest hitter in the world," he announced.  Then he tossed the ball into the air, swung at it, and missed.  "Strike One!" he
                    
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                    Unresolved anger smolders like something burning underground.  I can still see the Canadian park rangers digging holes around a camp site located deep in the wilderness of the Algonquin Provincial Park.  I was on a wilderness canoe trip with some friends when we paddled up to a small island.  The
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 13, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILL.  We are like the man who approached God & asked Him, "Lord, up in heaven how much time is a million years?"  "Well," God said, "a million years is but a second in heaven."
   "Oh!" said the man, "and up in heaven how much money is a million dollars?"  "Well," said God, "a million dollars is
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 14, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILL.  I like the story about a rather legalistic Seminary student who wanted to have a scriptural basis for everything he did.  He felt he was on solid ground if he could quote Bible book, chapter & verse to okay his actions.
   He did all right with that until he began to fall in love with a
                    
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                    Contributed by Greg Yount on Nov 30, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Some people are like Ken, the struggling student, who, during an exam was asked by his
teacher, “how close are you to the
                    
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                    Contributed by Greg Yount on Nov 30, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Some are honest like Dennis the Menace.  He caught his friend Joey trying to get a paper out of the machine without paying any money.  He said, “Wait, Joey.  First you have to put
                    
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                    Baptism is a lot like a wedding ring.    Baptism is symbolic of the washing away of our sins. It is also symbolic of a new way of life. It has been said that Baptism is to the Christian faith what the wedding ring is to a marriage.  It is a symbol.  "Like the wedding ring, baptism draws a mark on
                    
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