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                    DISCOURAGING IRRESPONSIBILITY
So what should we do about people who won’t take responsibility for their own actions? I believe the answer is simple: 
Set them free. 
Give them the freedom to make their own decisions, to face the consequences of their own acts, to see for themselves what their
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 13, 2019
                
                
                
                    Let’s talk about discouragement
     George Washington after suffering major defeats at Brandy wine Creek and Germantown finds himself facing one of the worst winters in history. He has 12,000 troops Left to fight the entire British army and winter’s howling breath is breathing down his neck. He
                    
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                    Illustration:  The Colonel Sanders Story
   Here’s a man sitting on his porch in Kentucky. He’s only recently retired from the post office, and he’s sitting there when his first Social Security check is delivered. He’s very, very discouraged. He thinks to himself, "Is this what life is going to be
                    
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                    A great evangelist, Dr. Chapman, has often told an amazing story about himself. He had been in business and became minister of a great church in Philadelphia. One Monday he was more than usually dispirited.  (Mondays are hard on pastors!). 
The Sunday had been a poor one, and he felt, as ministers
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 26, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Young William Wilberforce was discouraged one night in the early 1790s after another defeat in his 10 year battle against the slave trade in England. Tired and frustrated, he opened his Bible and began to leaf through it. A small piece of paper fell out and fluttered to the floor. It was a letter
                    
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                    Young William Wilberforce was discouraged one night in the early 1790s after another defeat in his ten-year battle against the slave trade. Tired and frustrated, he opened his Bible and began to leaf through it. A small piece of paper fell out and fluttered to the floor. It was a letter written by
                    
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                    ¿Desanimarme yo...por qué?
Un niño está viendo su equipo jugar beisbol, el recién llegado le pregunta: ¿Cómo va el juego?, él contesta: Vamos perdiendo 18 a 0. Oh, no te desanimes, le dice el espectador a lo que el niño contesta: ¿Desanimarme yo...por qué? Mi equipo aun no ha ido a
                    
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