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                    In 1955, President David Eisenhower was in Denver, Colorado, for a few days of business.  In the Saturday morning newspaper, one of the president’s aids read a letter to the editor from a teenaged boy with cancer, named Paul Hailey, who expressed his dream of someday, somehow, someway meeting the
                    
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                    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Dec 11, 2006
                
                
                
                    Harry Ironside was pastor of Moody Church in Chicago.  An elderly man once came to him and said, “I will not go on unless I know I’m saved, or else know it’s hopeless to seek to be sure of it. I want a definite witness, something I can’t be mistaken about!” 
Ironside replied, “Suppose you had a
                    
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                    When people claim that Science and Faith are at odds often point out that back in the Middle Ages the Catholic Church refused to accept Galileo’s theory that the earth revolved around the sun. (rather than the other way around.)  That is true --- but the Church did not reject this theory based on
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
                
                
                
                    THE GIFT OF STANDING BY - Donald Grey Barnhouse told the story (supposedly true) about Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.  When he moved to Washington, D.C., to take up his duties as Chief Justice, he transferred his membership letter to a Baptist Church in the area.  His father had been a Baptist
                    
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                    A woman who lived in a plush suburb one day decided to go shopping one day. She put on a fashionable outfit and her favorite perfume and headed out the door to catch the bus. As she hurried out the back door, she picked up a small sack of garbage in the kitchen so she could toss it in the garbage
                    
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                    The late Dr. A. J. Gordon concluded his last pastoral letter to his church (Clarendon Street, Boston), with these words: "Forget not that your first and principal business as a disciple of Christ is to give the gospel to those who have it not. He who is not a missionary Christian will be a missing
                    
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                    Video Clip: Dead Man Walking: From Videos that Teach -- Fields and James page 52
Can anyone, no matter what they have done, become a child of God? 
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Sister Helen Prejan (Susan Sarandon) is a nun who receives a desperate letter from a death row inmate, Matthew Poncelet (Sean
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is a poem entitled “A Prayer For the Future” quoted by Sir Frances Drake, it said and I quote,
Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we have sailed too close to the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Early in the nineteenth century, the King of Prussia, Frederick William III, found his nation in great trouble. 
He had been attempting to bring prosperity to his land, but constant wars had drained the treasury. After prayerful consideration, he wrote an open letter to the women of Prussia asking
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 17, 2007
                
                
                
                    Two Gun Crowley 
On May 7, 1931 the most sensational manhunt in New York City came to a climax.  After a two week search “Two gun Crowley- the killer who didn’t smoke or drink was trapped in his girlfriends apartment.  150 policeman laid siege to the apartment.  The chopped holes in the roof to
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric  Ferguson on May 9, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILLUSTRATION: I LOVE YOU ANYWAY
Overcoming the odds is like the man who finally decided to ask his boss for a raise in salary.
It was Friday. He told his wife that morning what he was about to do, All day the man felt nervous and apprehensive. 
Late in the afternoon he summoned the courage to
                    
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                    Don’t underestimate the power of your PRAYERS for our Nation.  George Flurry wrote:  “Prayer is political action.  Prayer is social energy.  Prayer is public good.  … Prayer is an act of patriotism in the largest sense of the word … The single most important action contributing to whatever health
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 27, 2009
                
                
                
                    BILLY GRAHAM'S CONTINUING HOPE
Billy Graham has been through the grinder in recent years.  He lost his beloved wife, and he is suffering from the effects of Parkinson’s disease, making him unable to continue his crusade work.
In his latest letter to the public, he has this to say about the hope
                    
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