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                    It is dangerous to base our salvation experience entirely upon feeling.  Knowing that, and acting upon it, are still sometimes strangers.  Like the psychiatrist who took on a very disturbed man as a patient.  The man thought he was dead.  No matter what techniques the doctor tried, the man still
                    
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                    How does a person keep from getting distracted? How do we stay focused on being the person that God has called us to be?
When Julius Caesar landed on the shores of Britain with his Roman legions, he took a bold and decisive step to ensure the success of his military venture. Ordering his men to
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 25, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I heard about a 4 year old staying with his Grandma and he said, "Grandma, I want `unch’." She said, "You want what?" "I want `unch’." She said, "You mean, you want lunch!" "Yes, I want `unch’." Grandma said, "I’m not gong to give it to you until you say it correctly. Now, what do you want?" "I
                    
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                    Contributed by James Chandler on Jan 23, 2007
                
                
                
                    I hear parents say “Yeah my daughter has 4.0 grade point average” or “My son is averaging 10 points a game in basketball.”  Not very often do I hear parents say “My child’s prayer life is really growing into something wonderful.”  What kind of a dad am I, if I know my children’s grade point average
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
                
                
                
                    We have a custom of viewing the body, not just out of curiosity or to judge the mortician’s skill but to face reality.  In doing that we grieve, which ventilates our sorrow and helps to bring emotional healing and relief.
A young boy in my former pastorate suffered the death of his thirty-year-old
                    
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                    EVERYTHING WORTH HAVING HAS PAIN
"In everything worth having, even in every pleasure, there is a point of pain or tedium that must be survived, so that the pleasure may revive and endure: the joy of reading Virgil comes after the bore of learning him; the glow of the sea-bather comes after the icy
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Jul 7, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ADOPTION EXPLAINED
During the time that the New Testament was written, when a family adopted a child, there was no immediate big celebration of that adoption. But, when that child reached the proper age, there was a celebration, and at that time, the child was given every single legal standing as
                    
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                    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 23, 2009
                
                
                
                    Before Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Archbishop Desmond Tutu stood in front of the South African Embassy in Washington D.C. one afternoon and said, “Those of you inside, are you listening? Do you hear me? You have already been defeated. Do you understand that? You have already lost and
                    
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                    Contributed by Kelly Benton on Mar 15, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Curious just shows up to church but doesnt try to get involved in the church. They show up physically but are absent spiritually. These types of people are much like the employee that comes to work to only punch the time card but are totally non-dedicated to the job. They expect to recieve
                    
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                    Contributed by Roger Roark on May 19, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    To trap a wolf, the Eskimos used to take a hunting knife, and dip it in animal blood, and freeze it, then put another layer of blood, and freeze it again, and then bury the knife in the snow with the blade exposed .
A wolf would come by and start licking the blood off  of the blade of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jul 25, 2007
                
                
                
                    God is behind our lives: These days  most  people have  the wonderful blessing of a Satellite Navigation in their car to direct them in their travels. The Sat nav directs them to their given destination.It knows the start from the finish.
Pastor Aubrey Vaughan in sermon journey of faith.@
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 9, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Seeing Only Self”
One day a certain old, miserly, rich man visited a rabbi, who took him by the hand and led him to a window.  “Look out there,” he said.  And the rich man looked out into the street.
“What do you see?”  asked the rabbi.
“I see men, and women, and little children,’ answered the
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Dolan on Jan 5, 2008
                
                
                
                    Creation was good!  In a scene of the television show ‘Joan of Arcadia’(which is not always theologically correct by the way) Joan asks God to prove that He is God.  He asks Joan, “now.. how might I do that?”  She says, “do a miracle or something.”  God says, “what about that,” as He points to a
                    
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                    In His book, “Experience God in Worship,” Christian Author George Barna says that the main reason millions of people in America go to church every week is not to worship God, but is instead to have a pleasing experience.  He goes on to say that… “most Americans go to church to satisfy or please
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 10, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When the gospel first came to Africa, some of the early converts became so passionate about prayer that they built their own private prayer huts. Each hut was set aside for just one person, and a path used only by that person led up to its door.
If someone neglected the loving discipline of
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 26, 2008
                
                
                
                    GIVE YOURSELF RIGHT NOW
Those in recovery groups talk about seeing what he or she can “pack into the stream of life.” Many addicts and alcoholics initially think of themselves as pretty good people who just need to cut back drinking. If they have problems, they happen because of other people.
                    
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