Contributed by Mark Adams on Jan 1, 2005
                
                
                
                    After my Senior year of high school I went to Honduras with a group of 70 teenagers from 4 states.  While there, we worked with three different churches as well as a medical center.  We also build 14 small houses for poor families.  It was a fantastic experience.  All the kids went home excited
                    
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                    Someone (Len Sullivan) recalls a story from their family history about his grandparents.    "In the late 1920s my grandparents married and moved into Grandpa’s old family home.   It was a clapboard house with a hall down the middle.   In the ’30s they decided to tear down the old house and build
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Maybe I can illustrate this with something a little whimsical. God knows we need whimsical in these bleak times I am remembering my grandmother and what a wonderful cook she was. We looked forward to holidays when we would be invited to her house for a delightful meal. But every Thanksgiving, every
                    
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                    This past week I went up to visit Oscar Norris.  Oscar, who is blind, has been keeping really busy.  He lives with his niece who loves to quilt and weave.  Everything is made truly by hand.  She makes her own dyes from nature.  She takes wool from sheep and spins her own yarn.  In years past Oscar
                    
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                    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 28, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WHEN WE HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO
Over the years we have had many gut wrenching stores of families killed in an accident only to leave a mother or father behind. To wake up in a hospital bed hurting physically then realize that your entire family is gone would be unfathomable. Now none of us are
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 10, 2018
                
                
                
                    Back in ’09 there was a house fire that led to a dramatic rescue.  One of the family’s sons was trapped in the house.  A quick-thinking neighbor had someone get on his shoulders in order to reach the boy.  Their bravery and ingenuity allowed five-year-old John to escape just seconds before the
                    
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                    Contributed by David  Yarbrough on Apr 30, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    We all have a way of completing this sentence: “If God is God, then....”
There will be no financial collapse in my family.
My children will never be buried before me.
People will treat me fairly.
This church will never divide.
My prayers will be answered.  (Max Lucado,  In the Eye of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dr. Joon-Gon Kim, was a well-known Korean Christian leader. He witnessed his wife and father slaughtered before his eyes by communist sympathizers from his own village. He was beaten senseless and left for dead.  He survived the beating and asked God to give him love for the souls of his enemies.
                    
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                    The message of the nativity according to the article is this: “An Enduring symbol. Christ’s birth has been a powerful story through-out the ages. The Nativity is a three dimensional depiction of that timeless story and an enduring symbol of faith, hope, and love for Christians around the world. The
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    National Religious Broadcasters recently passed a resolution pledging the association’s family to consider that biblical truth is no longer part of the nation’s foundation and that “evil in high places” wants to establish a foundation based on humanism and situational ethics. It calls NRB members
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A little boy asked his mother where he came from, and also where she had come from as a baby. His mother gave him a tall tale about a beautiful white-feathered bird. The boy asked his grandmother the same question and received a variation on the bird story. Outside to his playmate he said, "You
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Oct 21, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Researchers in Indiana have measured the effects on a brain scan. The study’s principal investigator, Dr. Vincent Mathews, said prolonged exposure to violence actually affects brain function and behavior.
Dr. David Walsh, National Institute on Media and the Family asks, “"What good could possibly
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 23, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A 1984 study done by McWhirter & Mattison was supposed to show that homosexual relationships are as stable as heterosexual relationships. To prove this point 165 "stable" gay couples were studied to see what percentage would remain monogamous for five years. The study had to be called off because
                    
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