Contributed by Glenn Durham on Aug 13, 2008
                
                
                
                    Kent Hughes, who pastored in Chicago, tells something which happened to a dear friend. This lady was a missionary on furlough after a particularly difficult season of service. Now, for the first time since they had been missionaries, they had bought a place of their own to rest and recover. The
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
                
                
                
                    Myron
Do you need encouragement on a smaller scale for a person with lesser abilities? Kenneth Dodge, San Leandro, California:
In a small town in the Midwest where I spent six years of my early youth, there lived a mentally retarded adult named Myron.  It was during depression years and there was
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Apr 3, 2010
                
                
                
                    Root Beer Thirst --- ---
As a kid in High School, I loved to go to amusement parks, and so did my friends. We only had a couple of amusement parks in the SF Bay Area and my high school buddies and I were able to convince our parents to drop us off at one of these amusement parks that was like a six
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Emmert on May 29, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One of the most touching moment in the Sydney Olympics was when Eric "The Swimmer" Moussambani of Equatorial Guinea swam in the 100-meter free style qualifying heat. The 22-year-old African had only learned to swim last January, had only practiced in a 20-meter pool without lane markers, and had
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [illustration, James Dobson, New Man, October, 1994, p. 36.]
This is an exert from an article that James Dobson wrote in 1994 about Stephen Hawking, whom I believe has since died…
Stephen Hawking is an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and perhaps the most intelligent man on earth. 
He has
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 19, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A PRAYER FOR A NATION AT WAR
Our Father in Heaven,
We thank You that You know exactly what is going on here on earth.  We sinful human beings constantly find ourselves confused, distressed, and alarmed because of our own behavior and that of others.  What miseries result from our sinful
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 17, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    CHASING A WAGGING TAIL 
Stephen Hawking is an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and perhaps the most intelligent man on earth. He has advanced the general theory of relativity farther than any person since Albert Einstein. Unfortunately, Hawking is afflicted with ALS Syndrome (Lou Gehrig’s
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A Prayer for Deliverance
1.  Personally affirm your faith in Christ:
“Lord Jesus Christ, I believe You are the Son of God and the only way to God – that You died on the cross for my sins and rose again so that I might be forgiven and receive eternal life.”
2.  Humble yourself:
“I renounce all
                    
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                    Once there were these 3 guys who needed to get to a town called Perfection in one day. Perfection was 200 km away. One guy decided to save money and walk all the way. He started off at 6 in the morning. He only walked for a few hours and managed to cover 20 km. After that he was too pooped to carry
                    
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                    Contributed by Rob Willis on Feb 27, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Sometimes the truth might get you in trouble – reminds me of a story - one night a Massachusetts state police officer pulled over a speeding car. The officer said to the driver, “I clocked you at 80 miles per hour.”  The driver says, "Gee, officer I had it on cruise control at 60. Perhaps your
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jul 9, 2010
                
                
                
                    GAME OF CHANCE
A person recently said to me as they were dying that the Bible was just a series of myths and stories, and if I want to, I can choose to live my life assuming that it is. I can choose to treat heaven like a GAME OF CHANCE and the Bible as something less than a sure thing. I can
                    
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                    Contributed by Ken Pell on Sep 13, 2010
                
                
                
                    In Cornwall, England, you can visit a place called “The Eden Project.” The Eden Project attempted to build the perfect environment in which plants and trees could flourish. Obviously named for the Garden of Eden, this collection of “biomes,” huge domes, provide a tightly monitored atmosphere with a
                    
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