Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jan 3, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The NY Times had a story about a little boy who was riding the bus.  He sat so close to a woman dressed in a gray suit that everybody assumed that he was her son & she was his mother.  Until finally another lady sat down on the same seat with them.
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                    Contributed by Timothy Craver on Sep 27, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There’s an old fable about a miserable rich man who went to visit a rabbi.  The rabbi took the rich man by the hand and led him to a window.  "Look out there," he said.  The rich man looked into the street.  "What do you see?" asked the rabbi.  "I see men, women, and children," answered the rich
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 3, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    W.A. Criswell tells of an ambitious young man who told his pastor he’d promised God a tithe of his income. They prayed for God to bless his career. At that time he was making $40.00 per week and tithing $4.00. In a few years his income increased and he was tithing $500.00 per week. He called on the
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Nov 3, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Have your heard about the recent experience of a pastor who changed the order of worship so that the sermon was given before the offering was taken. This upset a four year old
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 12, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is an ancient Scottish legend - a shepherd boy tending a small flock of sheep on the side of a mountain.  One day as he cared for his sheep he saw at his feet a beautiful flower -- one that was more beautiful than any he had ever seen in his life.  He knelt down upon his knees and scooped the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 4, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There were two men shipwrecked on an island. The minute they got onto the island, one of them started screaming and yelling, "We’re going to die! We’re going to die! There’s no food! No water! We’re going to die!" The second man was propped up against a palm tree and acting so calmly it drove the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A preacher said to his congregation, “I have good news and bad news to tell you.  The good news is we have enough money to pay off our building debt.  The bad
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    C. H. Spurgeon preached once a each year for his orphans. At that great meeting many would come to hear the famous preacher, and an offering would be received for the orphanage. After one of these meetings he was leaving the sanctuary when one of those "super spiritual," narrow-minded, nitpicking
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Greed is the logical result of the belief that there is no life after death. We grab what we can while we can however we can and then hold on to it
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 12, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LETTING GO OF TREASURES
Giving with a glad and generous heart has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money or some other treasure does something
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    OBESITY OR POVERTY
 	A February 2002 issue of National Geographic says the Worldwatch Institute has issued its annual State of the World report. Almost every global environmental indicator has worsened over the last ten years and the gap between rich and poor has gotten wider. Over 1 billion
                    
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                    	When I was in Bible College, a tractor trailer load of Tropicana Orange Juice was dropped off at the cafeteria every week.  I wondered how a low-cost Bible College could afford so much expensive O.J.  One morning in chapel, I found out how an older Italian man in broken English, gave his
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    IF ONLY I COULD SLEEP AGAIN
     David Jeremiah, the founder of World Vision, the international Christian relief agency tells a story about Bob Pierce.  Pierce had advanced leukemia, but he went to visit a colleague in Indonesia before he died. As they were walking through a small village, they
                    
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                    An old Jewish folktale bears witness to the importance of sharing in the tradition. 
There were once two brothers who farmed together.  They shared equally in all of the work and split the profits exactly.  Each had his own storehouse.  One of the brothers was married and had a large family.  The
                    
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