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                    THE ENDURING FROG
We can flourish and develop in new ways or we can drown in despair.
Story from India:  One night two frogs found themselves in a dairy. Hopping and jumping around as frogs do they both jumped into a milk pail half full of milk.	
After swimming around for some time they tried to
                    
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                    Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 9, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Are you a Risk-taker or a safety-seeker? 
Responding to the increasing destructiveness of high winds in the Midwest, one developer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, offered an optional tornado-safe room in the new homes he was selling. It cost an additional $2,500 for the room—which can also be used as a
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    New Barna Research has discovered that a person’s lifelong behaviors and views are generally developed when they are young – usually prior to reaching teen years. The research showed 4 critical outcomes. First, a person’s moral foundations are generally in place by the time they reach 9. Their
                    
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                    In May of 1846 an evangelist, now mostly forgotten, named “James Caughey” (pronounced “coffee”) visited a chapel in Nottingham England and preached a sermon on the words recorded in St. Mark, “Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    It was said that Henry Ford was an automotive genius. He came up with great ideas and handed them to researchers for development. One of his ideas was the concept of an engine in which the pistons were set at an angle to each other rather than in a straight line. He sketched out his idea for the
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 27, 2007
                
                
                
                    Charles Schwab -
In 1921 the first person to make one million dollars a year, when a person making $50. A week was well off, was Charles Schwab.  He had been picked by Andrew Carnegie to become the first president of U.S. Steel Company. 
Why did Andrew Carnegie pay him so much?  Because he was a
                    
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                    Contributed by Terry Cavanaugh on May 10, 2008
                
                
                
                    I remember a young couple, they joyfully discovered, after years of trying, they were going to have a baby.  However, they were both perfectionists  They did what a lot of expectant parents do, they purchased books on how to raise a child.  But they went over board.
They read every book they could
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 15, 2008
                
                
                
                    1348 Letting Children Free to Develop? 
A gentleman named Coleridge was once talking with a man who told him that he did not believe in giving little children any religious instruction whatsoever. His theory was that the child’s mind should not be prejudiced in any direction, but when he came to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
                
                
                
                    POST-IT NOTES
In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States, developed a "low-tack", reusable, pressure-sensitive adhesive. For five years, Silver promoted his invention within 3M, both informally and through seminars, but without much success. In 1974, a colleague of his,
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 3, 2009
                
                
                
                    In 1990, there were only three known Christians in Kazakhstan and no Christians in Uzbekistan, but now more than 15,000 in Kazakhstan and 30, 000 in Uzbekistan. There were only 500 Christians in Iran in 1979, but more than one million Iranians believing Jesus Christ today, most of whom meet in
                    
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                    The McDonalds “Happy Meal” might be the most famous meal in all the world.
It's a meal for a kid that’s served at McDonalds restaurants that promises to make them happy – at least for a few fleeting minutes!
In the mid-1970s, a MacDonald’s restaurant in Guatemala offered a hamburger, small
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I sat down and looked through some magazines this past week.  I discovered that if I want to feel right, I need to get a NordicTrack.  I don’t have a NordicTrack, just a membership down at the gym, so I suddenly realized that I didn’t feel as healthy as I thought I did.
     I then read that if I
                    
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                    Contributed by Ken Pell on Feb 10, 2008
                
                
                
                    Forgiving One Another -- the Monkey Trap
>>I used this as a children’s sermon to open the worship services<<
I’m going teach to you something this morning. I’m going to show you how to catch a monkey! Do any of you have wild monkeys running around your neighborhood? Well, in case there ever is
                    
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                    Contributed by Ted Sutherland on May 29, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Erle Stanley Gardner tells about his early days as a writer of Western stories:
	“When a writer is writing at three cents a word, he is painfully conscious of the number of words. In fact, when I was typing my own stories. I had an adding machine device connected to the space bar of my typewriter,
                    
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