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                    Once there was this man who was the "picture perfect Christian".
Tithes, attendance, participation in activities you name it, he
was it!
One day as he was praying, he asked the Lord, "Lord I wonder if I
have been an obedient enough child that I might ask one favor when
I die?"
Well the Lord thought
                    
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                    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 31, 2009
                
                
                
                    In the Broadway musical, “Guys and Dolls,” there is a line where Sky Masterton (the Marlon Brando role in the film version) shares some advice that his father gave him. Sky is a gambler and the entire play revolves around a certain bet that he makes which pays off in a way he isn’t expecting. But I
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 18, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Give It to Get It
I have the opportunity to hang out with alcoholics and addicts that are working on recovery. And it is truly amazing to see how they often serve one another. You see for those in recovery serving those who are still suffering in terms of sharing the greatest thing that they have,
                    
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                    A few years back the movie the Titanic came out. It was a box office smash. People seemed once again fascinated by this tragedy at sea. About 1,500 people lost their lives in this ship wreck tragedy. This great ship was said by the media to be:
“Unsinkable” – even God himself could not sink her
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 6, 2025
                
                
                
                    [189].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – LORD, WASH NOT ONLY MY FEET
This poem has its setting on the Passover night and it is this incident – {{John 13:3-10 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, rose from supper
                    
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                    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 14, 2013
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WHAT DOES "ALL" MEAN?
I know people who are carrying around a load of guilt over the past and they're loaded down with this extra weight God doesn't want them to have.
I remember a lady in my church in Wiesbaden I'll call Jill. Jill had rebelled against her parents, had been on drugs, had had
                    
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                    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 26, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    MINISTER VISITED a lady in a retirement home.  As she lay in her hospital style bed he spoke with her.  Beside her bed was a dish full of peanuts.  He ate one and then another and before he knew it he looked down and the dish was empty.  ’I am so sorry he confessed, I ate all the peanuts you
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on May 20, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Title:  Look to the Stars 
   One night Abraham Lincoln suggested to a young man that they take a walk along a country road.  Lincoln lifted his eyes to the heavens full of stars and said, "I never behold them that I don’t feel I am looking into the face of God.  A man might look down upon the
                    
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                    ¡¦To persecuted Jewish believers scattered among pagan peoples, James gave the surprising advice, Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds. Trials should be faced with an attitude of joy. Trials should not be seen as a punishment, a curse, or a calamity but
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Decker on Jan 11, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In the comic strip, Dennis the Menace, Dennis and his little friend, Joey, are leaving Mrs. Wilson’s house with their hands full of cookies. As you may remember, Dennis is not always very considerate toward the Wilsons who are his next-door neighbors (especially Mr. Wilson).  
But Joey says, "I
                    
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                    Contributed by Greg Buchner on May 5, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Lewis B. Smedes in his book How Can It Be All Right When Eveything is Wrong?” put this admitting into these words…“Grace is rather an amazing power to look earthly reality full in the face, see its sad and tragic edges, feel its cruel cuts, join in the primeval chorus against its outrageous
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 2, 2005
                
                
                
                    A bird had no interest in learning the song its master wanted to teach it while its cage was full of light. Its master covered the cage to darken it. He then whistled the same song over and over until the bird learned it by heart. When it could repeat it note for note, the owner uncovered the cage
                    
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