Contributed by Greg Buchner on May 5, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Forgiven and Pardoned (source: Illustrations Unlimited)
It reminds me of the story of a young employee who secretly misappropriated several hundred dollars of his business firm’s money. When this action was discovered, he walked up the stars toward the administrative office he was told to report
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 6, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Sometimes His ways are hard to understand at the time, I can offer a personal example:  Teenage children can be quite a trial, even a pain!  25 years ago my son was!  He was keen on old vehicles that he intended to renovate.  Against my better judgement, so I thought at the time, he acquired an old
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 31, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze
A young Marine saluted it, and then
He stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He’d stand out in any crowd.
I thought, how many men like him
Had fallen through the
                    
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                    Contributed by John Shearhart on Aug 19, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Picture a coin falling toward the ground under the influence of gravity.  In itself, that coin is powerless to overcome the downward pull of this earth.  It is in its very nature to fall.  But before it has gone far, someone reaches out an arm, holds the coin firmly in his hand, and then lifts it
                    
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                    Contributed by Nathan Parker on Mar 10, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Life Examples: Elijah: Responding to Stress (1 Kings 19:3) 
Stressful situations can drive us to inappropriate responses. The prophet Elijah illustrates the importance of viewing circumstances from God’s perspective. 
God sent the prophet to rescue Israel from its moral and spiritual decline.
                    
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                    Contributed by Jason Cole on Mar 21, 2007
                
                
                
                    In April, 1988 the evening news reported on a photographer who was also a skydiver. He had jumped from a plane along with several other skydivers and filmed the group as they individually dove out of the plane and opened their parachutes. As the video was being shown of each member of the crew
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 28, 2009
                
                
                
                    Samson confused with He-man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snufwP5SO-Y&NR=1
He-Man is a heroic fictional character in the Masters of the Universe franchise. He is the alter ego of Prince Adam and also the twin brother of She-Ra. He-Man and his friends defend Eternia and the secrets of Castle
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 9, 2012
                
                
                
                    THE RING AND THE CARROT
"A Swedish woman who lost her wedding ring 16 years ago was flabbergasted when she found it again, around a carrot growing in her garden, media reported Saturday. Lena Paahlsson had taken off the white gold ring before a Christmas baking session with her daughters in 1995,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE MEEK PERSON HAS A POWERFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THAT RELAXES THE SPIRIT, CALMS THE SOUL, OVERCOMES FEAR, AND ENABLES GREAT THINGS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED IN THE NAME OF JESUS. 
V. IN CONTRAST, THE UN-MEEK TRY TO BUILD A FORMIDABLE EXTERIOR BUT ARE CRIPPLED INSIDE WITH FEAR AND STRESS. THERE IS A
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeremy Poling on Jan 12, 2008
                
                
                
                    The greek myth says he was in his late teens, due to his great looks  he was a magnet for affection and desire. His list of suitors was countless and his offers of love were endless, yet he rejected them all.
Until 1 day as he stopped by a shaded cool spring, he saw his own reflection and for the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
                
                
                
                    W. B. Hinson, a great preacher of a past generation, spoke from his own experience just before he died, and he said, “I remember a year ago when a doctor told me, ‘You have an illness from which you won’t recover.’ I walked out to where I live 5 miles from Portland, Oregon, and I looked across at
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 13, 2025
                
                
                
                    [058].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DELUSIONALISM CONTRADICTS WHAT’S TRUTH
I believe Christians who ignore what is happening in the world are living in a bubble.  We must understand current events and especially as they line up with the last days and biblical prophecy.
We live in the days of
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    HARD TIMES FOR HELL 
Hell, it would seem, has fallen on rather lean times. It used to be that the vast majority of Christians, regardless of denominational affiliation, believed that Hell was a real place where the wicked and the impenitent go when they died. The very thought of the pains and
                    
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