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                    [The Point: Living for God is more than a one-time, verbal declaration, it is an on-going, intentional lifestyle.]
     Once upon a time, in a country far, far away where Christianity was not allowed, there lived a very wise old man.
     One day, a woman in terrible distress came to him to ask
                    
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                    The devils greatest hold on the church and the body of believers in these times are the lies and fear he perpetuates concerning the gifts of the spirit, reject this and
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 24, 2007
                
                
                
                    Someone has said, “Worry is a thin stream of fear that trickles through the mind, which, if encouraged, will cut a channel so wide
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Yesterday is a memory; tomorrow is an imagination; today is eternity. Cut out two days of your life, yesterday with its mistakes,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 13, 2003
                
                
                
                    There is a study listed in the Journal of Neuroscience that shows certain electrical switches in the brain, known as L-type voltage-gated calcium channels (LVGCCs), are required to overcome fear.   These switches only allow you to "unlearn" or conquer a specific fear or phobia. 
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 15, 2009
                
                
                
                    In the early church Jerome, that hardy and stern disciplinarian, removed himself far from the lurid temptations of the city only to find that he had not escaped them at all. As he confessed:
“O how often I imagined that I was in the midst of the pleasures of Rome when I was stationed in the
                    
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                    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 3, 2010
                
                
                
                    "Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people" (Luke 1:68 NIV). A little child plays innocently in a park. Suddenly a man grabs her from behind and drags her into a van. She’s gagged. A bag’s pulled over her head. Dust stings her eyes. The smell of sweat
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 8, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In his excellent history of the silent film, "The Parades’ Gone By," Kevin Brownlow tells the amazing tale of a lanky, good looking young man from Montana would do just about anything to get into the movies. In 1926, Paramount was filming one of the last of the big budget silent westerns, "The
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Moyer on Aug 5, 2009
                
                
                
                    Sometimes the people we know the best are the ones we treat the worst. One time a lifeguard was asked, "How do you teach a girl how to swim?" He said, "The first thing I would do is to take her to the edge of the pool and have her watch the water as it goes back and forth, back and forth, back and
                    
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                    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 16, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "SO YOU WON'T BE AFRAID"
In one of the Nazi death camps, Solomon Rosenberg lived and suffered with his family. It was a work camp, which meant a person had value and stayed out of the ovens as long as he or she could work. Solomon’s parents, aged and broken, were already gone. Now he feared his
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
                
                
                
                    Romans 8:31 says: “If God is for us, who can be against us?”
It’s knowing that God is “with us” that gives us our courage… and helps us overcome our fears.
I read the true story once about a woman who was babysitting for the 2 year old son of her preacher. The boy was sleeping in her home one
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 10, 2008
                
                
                
                    TRANSLATION OF PSALM 23
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.  He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will
                    
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