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                    Once upon a time   long ago,
 you had to turn on the TV set well before your show started
  so there would be time enough for the tubes to warm up.
I see people today pacing impatiently, even a little upset
 that the microwave popcorn is taking so long.
Or do you ever tap your fingers impatiently
                    
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                    Contributed by Kelly Randolph on Feb 17, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    John Eldredge tells the story of a Scottish discus thrower from the 19th century. He lived days before professional trainers and developed his skills alone in the highlands. He made his own discus from the description he read in a book. What he didn’t know was that the competition discus was made
                    
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                    Spurgeon (1) wrote, " I think I may say to every person whom I am addressing,-If you are yourself saved, the work is but half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ. You are as yet but half formed in the image of your Lord. You have not attained to the full development of the
                    
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                    Contributed by James O. Davis on Oct 28, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Progress of Knowledge -- The mental sign is seen first in the progress of knowledge.  Man’s knowledge doubles in less than 6 years.  By the time many medical students graduate, much of their earlier training is already obsolete.  Printed material doubles in less than 15 years.  Technology, for
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WHAT TO GET MOM
Survey after survey tries to detemine what women really want for Mother’s Day.  
According to a survey by Circuit City, less than 5% of mothers surveyed prefer candy.  30% prefer flowers, and almost that many — 27% — want a digital camera. 
A survey of new moms by The First
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Hello Kitty, Goodbye Money?  Last year Visa introduced a Hilary Duff gift card in five denominations and urged tween girls to “shop like a star.”  Now MasterCard has announced a Hello Kitty debit card. That can be reloaded.  The primary target is younger girls ages 10-14.  Legend Credit Inc.,
                    
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                    Wesley’s ministry of social reform began with Charles Wesley’s Holy Club at Oxford University in 1729.  The Holy Club personally ministered in Oxford’s two prisons, at the workhouse, with poor familes, and in a school for underprivileged children.  Methodism was actively engaged in abolishing
                    
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                    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
                
                
                
                    Take the founders of space travel, for example.  Three innovative men, each unaware of the others, launched our world into the unexpected new era of space travel: (1)
	In 1903, Russian Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky first speculated that a rocket could travel beyond the earth’s atmosphere.
	In 1923,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Every person among us at one time or another has felt the distress of discouragement to tug at our hearts and dampen our spirits.
Thomas Edison -- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Dale Carnegie -- Develop success from
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A youth minister was attending a Special Olympics where handicapped children competed with tremendous dedication & enthusiasm. One event was the 220-yard dash, Contestants lined up at the starting line, & at the signal, started running as fast as they could.
One boy by the name of Andrew quickly
                    
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                    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 28, 2008
                
                
                
                    WRITER FRUSTRATED BY LONELINESS – IT’S A WORLD WIDE PROBLEM!
A nationally syndicated columnist writes: ‘I am lonely and it saddens me.  How could I not have enough friends? It seems as though every woman’s friendship quota is filled and she is no longer accepting new applicants. It is easy to fill
                    
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                    The world is in a crisis of confusion concerning the character and the nature of God. Just as paganism and polytheism tainted the ancient Near Eastern world, our society is influenced by corrupted views of God. The names have changed, but the false gods they represented have not. Instead of Baal,
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 26, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    EDISON: COMPLETE FORGIVENESS
When Thomas Edison and his staff were developing the incandescent light bulb, according to Ken Sande, it took hundreds of hours to manufacture a single bulb. One day, after finishing a bulb, notes Sande, Edison handed it to a young errand boy and asked him to take it
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 6, 2010
                
                
                
                    Prepared to serve. 
Joshua died at 110 years old in 1380 B.C. He assumed leadership around 1406 B.C. Therefore, he was around 85 years old when he took command from Moses!Before Joshua ever took the reigns, he had been a servant, a soldier and a spy. Some feel that you can make a man by giving him
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WHO MADE ME?
I love the story of the boy sitting on his father's lap as they were looking into a mirror. The boy said to his dad, "Dad, who made me?" 
He said, "God made you, son." 
He said, "Dad, who made you?" 
He said, "God made me, son." 
He said, "Dad, who made granddad?" 
He said, "God
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on May 9, 2011
                
                
                
                    Sometimes the analogy of the caterpillar turned butterfly is over-used. But we can’t help it because it’s a powerful image of the metamorphosis we undergo in our relational development toward God. 
Our caterpillar state is one of restriction. We are bound by realities of time and space that
                    
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