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                    "Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow,
                    
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                    Contributed by Douglas Vincent on May 28, 2004
                
                
                
                    Building a house is always a serious undertaking.
I was about 5 years old when my uncle began showing me how to build a card house.  He taught me three different ways in which I could stack the cards.  Each time he would start and I would want to jump right in after him and start building the house
                    
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                    Opening video illustration from Video’s That Teach, page  62, 63: The Empire Strikes Back
The Movie:
This is the second film of the Star Wars trilogy. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) receives his first training as a Jedi knight…
This Clip (over 5 minutes)
Start 1:17:01 –  Stop 1: 22:12
Luke
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Burress on Jan 21, 2010
                
                
                
                    Illustration:  Let’s say you and your spouse are going away for a couple of days and you leave your teenager at home by their self.  Now before you go you give instructions that you don’t want any parties, they are not to drive dad’s sports car, and they are not to be out after midnight the nights
                    
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                    SALVATION SWING
I remember back, as though it was yesterday, when my daughters were just little tykes.  There was a great playground just down the hill from our seminary apartment where the girls would climb, slide and swing.
Day after day they’d ask, "Mom, Dad, can we go to the park and swing?"
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Since we are about to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, let’s see what the day is truly about.
Webster’s *New World Dictionary* says:
"Saint Patrick’s Day - March 17, observed by the Irish in honor of Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland" 
But Eavey’s *History of Christian Education*
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 17, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    However, Gordon MacDonald has provided a very clear set of descriptors in understanding what it means to fully follow the Lord. 
	(10A) The first descriptor is spectator. MacDonald notes that there many spectators around Jesus because they were curious about what He had to say and offer. They were
                    
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                    AMISH GRACE AND FORGIVENESS
Following the tragic Amish school shooting of 10 young schoolgirls in a one-room Amish school in October 2006, reporters from throughout the world invaded Lancaster County, PA to cover the story. However, in the hours and days following the shooting a different, an
                    
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