Contributed by Lynell Friesen on May 24, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dr. Barnhouse used this illustration to portray this simple truth to his congregation and I would like to share it with you.  
	A young man, suffering from amnesia, lived a new life amid his old surroundings;  he could remember nothing that had happened before he fell off a haywagon.  As he fell,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 29, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Do you remember the Incredible Hulk?  If you do you either remember the big green monster from the comics or the television show. Dr. Banner had a serious problem. In an experiment he had unleashed a terrible monster.  In times of stress he would turn into this huge raging monster.  One of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    With tongue in cheek, Mark Twain spoke of the two-faced life we all live: I am constructed like everybody else and enjoy a compliment as well as any other fool, but I do like to have the other side presented. And there is another side. I have a wicked side. Estimable friends who know all about it
                    
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                    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Feb 16, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In 1991, a movie came out called "Grand Canyon." In that film, a well-to-do lawyer tries to avoid a traffic jam by detouring off the expressway, and soon gets lost in a very dangerous and unfamiliar part of the city. His car breaks down. It’s night, and although he manages to call a tow truck, by
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Stacy on May 13, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    MIXING MUSIC WITH SELF-CONTROL 
James Schaefer of the University of Minnesota did a ten-year study of a bar in Missoula, Montana.  (He followed it up with a three-year study of 65 bars around Minneapolis.) His startling conclusion: country-western tunes and alcohol go together. 
He found that the
                    
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                    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jul 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was once a little boy who excitedly told his mom that he had just measured himself and he was six feet tall. 
Mom was a little skeptical, so she asked him to measure himself again while she watched.
She discovered the problem when the boy took out not a 12-inch, but a 6-inch ruler. 
He had
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 17, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    FOR MY NEXT TRICK: 
A 31-year-old man from Santa Cruz, Calif., was walking outside town on a date when he happened across a rattlesnake. To "impress" his gal, he picked the snake up. "The snake was mature," said a rescue worker. "It had 10 rattles," which he knew because "the victim had time to
                    
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                    THE WRONG HORSE
    Two Kentucky farmers who owned racing stables had developed a keen rivalry. One spring, each of them entered a horse in a local steeplechase. Thinking that a professional rider might help him outdo his friend, one of the farmers engaged a crack jockey. The two horses were
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    TED TURNER ON HELL 
Ted Turner, founder of Turner Broadcasting (TBS,TNT,CNN) blasted the Christian faith at a speech to the National Press Club.
"Remember, heaven is going to be perfect. And I don’t really want to be there... Those of us that go to hell, which will be most of us in this room, most
                    
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                    Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Oct 26, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The lady must have been desperate.  She decided to write a letter to Dear Abby.  Her letter reads: Dear Abby, I am 44 and would like to meet a man my age with no bad habits.  She signed her name, “Rose.”  Abby replies: “Dear Rose: So would I.”  There’s more truth to Abby’s answer than her typical
                    
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                    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Mar 2, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    British author C.S. Lewis had a conversion on a roadway.  He’d started out as an atheist, with a strong dislike of church; yet the more he considered the Scriptures, the more he realized that the Gospels were truth, not myths.  “Nothing else in all literature was just like this,” he admitted. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 17, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE LOOK OF EVIL
“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Aug 21, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A few minutes ago, I told you we were chosen by God.  That is wonderful, but being chosen by itself does not help us much.  That is only the first step.  After God chooses us, there is something that we must do.  We must accept it.  Let me explain about being chosen and then accepting that choice. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Nov 7, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Several years ago, I read Patrick Morley’s book “Walking with Christ in the Details of Life.” It is a book of meditations that includes one called “Revival: The Gospel of Addition.” In it, he said the following, “The American gospel has evolved into a gospel of addition without subtraction. It is
                    
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                    Contributed by Bev Sesink on Feb 5, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    This reminds me of an incident I experienced while also working in South Africa.  I had been working on a research project but had made a significant error early on in the project.  Instead of coming clean I unfortunately chose to try and cover my mistake.
It wasn’t too long before my conscience
                    
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