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                    The final picture of God’s love for us through Jesus Christ comes for a story told by the late Pastor Louis Valbracht as he relates an event in his life.
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I remember when I returned from over seas at the end of W.W. II, I was met by a nearly-three-year-old daughter whom I hadn’t seen
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Celebrities tend to misbehave in tiresome and predictable ways--tantrums, affairs, addictions--and we tend to think they’re spoiled. But one psychiatrist, Cornell’s Robert B. Millman, says they’re not spoiled, they’re sick. The affliction is Acquired Situational Narcissism.
ASN develops when
                    
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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 Ronald  Keller on Nov 24, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Some time ago I saw a travelogue on television concerning a group of explorers who were searching in Africa for a vanishing tribe.  In the course of their travels they came across some natives who for centuries had made their home on the banks of this one particular river.  This in itself did not
                    
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                    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Mar 28, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Your heart will have beat an average of 122,400 times every day.  None of us want our heart to ask for a vacation or take a day off; we don’t even want to give it a short “coffee break” to skip a few beats.  Doctors understand the heart is critically important to our physical well-being; it is so
                    
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                    	David DePra in his article the Silence of God wrote this about the times when God is silent. 
	“If you have walked with God for any length of time, you will experience times when no matter how hard you pray, God is silent. He just doesn’t answer. And there is no indication that He ever will. Why
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 3, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Ultra orthodox Jews still today form hedges  for instance: Israel’s major airline, El Al, recently rejected a plea by ultra-orthodox Jews with a priestly heritage to fly inside body bags. Why would someone want to do this? Ritual law states that a priest who enters cemetery becomes religiously
                    
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                    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 16, 2006
                
                
                
                    It was Robert Fulghum who wrote "All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten." It appeared in a number of different places.  You’ve probably seen some of it around schools and other places.  Fulghum touches on an important fact of life – that we develop our basic values for life by the
                    
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                    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 13, 2009
                
                
                
                    Years ago Bonnie Chamberlain wrote a story in the Saturday Review that told of an artist who was once commissioned to paint in a Sicilian cathedral a mural depicting the life of Jesus. The painter accepted this task and made it his life’s work. He began by searching for people to be his models for
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 9, 2009
                
                
                
                    “I Will Die – Let My Baby Live!”
I knew him as a brilliant young member of a noted family.  He was studying in one of the great universities.  His physical development was well-nigh perfect.  Tall, broad-shouldered, brawny, graceful in bearing and quick in movement, he was soon well-known as an
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 8, 2009
                
                
                
                    Smallpox is an infectious disease unique to humans. It raises fluid-filled blisters in the skin. How many remember the smallpox vaccination? Do you remember that one big blister on your arm? A person with smallpox has them all over his skin. The image on Google was too hideous to show you. It
                    
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                    Contributed by Perry Greene on May 21, 2013
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LOOKING FOR SOMETHING YOU CAN'T FIND
I heard about a man who was drafted into the army.  While in the army he developed a very strange habit.  As he walked along each day he kept picking up pieces of paper, saying to himself aloud, "That's not it!"  He would pick up one piece of paper after
                    
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