Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 3, 2011
                
                
                
                    GET UP STRONGER
By the beginning of the nineteenth century, about three million African slaves had been transported to the Americas on British ships. People being stolen from their homes, ripped from their families, robbed of their dignity, transported on ships 3 decks deep, squalid conditions,
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
                
                
                
                    "Get your direction before you try for distance."
-— The Bible Friend (Encyclopedia of 15,000 Illustrations)
"When a man does not know what harbor he is headed for, no wind
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 12, 2022
                
                
                
                    There is an old story about a pastor leaving a church. At his farewell dinner, he tried to encourage one of the pillar members, “Don’t be so sad. The next pastor might be better than me.” She
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Thornton on Nov 12, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    As I was getting ready to come to church today, I was helping my son to get a bath -- and quite frankly, he didn’t want to have a bath, especially because he couldn’t sit and play in the tub for awhile.  And so he resisted and complained and made it difficult -- but we struggled through it and got
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
                
                
                
                    When You Can’t Get Up
Max Lucado, pastor and author describes the topic title best when he speaks of having “doubt storms”. He said, “Sometimes the storm comes after the evening news. Some nights I wonder why I watch it. Some nights it’s just too much. From the steps of the Supreme Court to the
                    
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                    Momma growing up would get angry with her children.  She would refuse us some requests that we made from her.  With feigned tears in our eyes, we would ask, how come we couldn’t go outside? How come we had to do our homework after we got home?  How come we couldn’t do like the other kids do – and
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "...if I fell down I was going to get up. And if I fell down again, I was going to get up and keep moving until I either hit that camp, couldn't get
                    
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