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                    My father grew up during the “Great Depression,” and he remembered a peddler lady who would visit their home from time to time.  She carried a large backpack containing household goods, small clothing items, and other merchandise.  She would spread her wares on the livingroom floor, and my grandma
                    
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                    Amdrei Bitov, a Russian novelist, grew up under the atheistic Communist regime. But God got his attention one dreary day. He recalls, “In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once,
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Boyd on Aug 20, 2003
                
                
                
                    Dreamers have always had a way of shaking up their world.  One of the most infamous illustrations of this would be a speech that was given on those steps in Washington, DC, when Martin Luther King Jr. stood and said… “I have a dream”…
No matter what your personal position is this morning, if you
                    
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                    On Thursday when I went to pick up my granddaughter from the Learning Center she is attending for the summer there was one of the kids balancing with arms outstretched on a skateboard without wheels and with one of those virtual reality visors on his head. He appeared to be having a blast –
                    
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                    Contributed by David Hill on Jul 9, 2004
                
                
                
                    EDWARD MOTE  GREW UP IN THE 1800 PARENTS OWNED AND OPERATED A PUB IN ENGLAND. HE GREW UP NEVER KNOWING THERE WAS A GOD.	        
   AS A YOUNG MAN HE TOOK A JOB AS A CABINETMAKER. HIS BOSS A STRONG CHRISTIAN LED HIM TO JESUS. LATER IN HIS LIFE EDWARD MOTE BEGAN TO WRITE HYMNS. ONE I SURE 
YOU KNOW
                    
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                    Contributed by W F on Sep 16, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I recently had to clean up some brickwork at home. New bricks had been laid and I had to clean off the excess cement. So I bought a litre of hydrochloric acid and mixed it at about ½ litre to a bucket of water. This was just the right amount to keep the acid effective in cleaning the brickwork
                    
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                    	Thomas Edison did not give up on his first efforts to find an effective filament for the incandescent lamp.  He did countless experiments with countless materials.  As each failed, he would toss it out the window.  The pile reached the second story of his house.   	Eventually, he sent men into
                    
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                    Contributed by W F on Sep 29, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Some timber producers have to wait up to 180 years to produce a harvest! That means the planter will 	never know the great grandchild who reaps the harvest, and the harvester will never know the forefather who planted the seed. The future depends on the foresight and patience of each
                    
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                    Ed Young Jr. grew up with one passion: basketball. He dreamed of being a basketball player. After graduating from high school, he was given a full athletic scholarship to Florida State University. During his freshman year he discovered that God’s plan for his life was quite different than his own
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One day as I was picking the toys up off the floor,
I noticed a small hand print on the wall beside the door.
I knew that it was something that I’d seen most every day,
but this time when I saw it there, I wanted it to stay.
Then tears welled up inside my eyes, I knew it wouldn’t last,
for every
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
                
                
                
                    68% of Americans oppose same-sex marriage, up from 55% just a year ago. (Foster Letter
                    
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                    Contributed by Kelly Benton on Feb 9, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Has anyone in here actually seen the Titanic up close where it now lies at the bottom of the ocean? 
     We have all seen photos; we all have read or have even heard stories of the Titanic.
 So I am sure we all agree that the Titanic is Real.  In a sense, don’t we all have some sort of faith, that
                    
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                    Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 10, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Quote: “Prayer has divided seas, rolled up flowing rivers, made flinty rocks gush into fountains, quenched flames of fire, muzzled lions, disarmed vipers and poisons, marshaled the stars against the wicked, stopped the course of the moon, arrested the sun in its rapid race, burst open iron gates,
                    
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