Contributed by Tobin Crenshaw on Aug 15, 2010
                
                
                
                    Take a young man from a wealthy family, strip him of all of his money until he finds himself homeless and has to beg on the street, hold him in a cell as a prisoner of war in a foreign land, and turn his family against him and what are the odds you would give for him to impact the world?
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                    THE IMPORTANCE OF A NAME
I went to a doctor for some pain here, upper side of my stomach… in those days I used to eat 6 times a day like for 3 people… But my doctor was sick too, staying home, another doctor replacing him. His name was Vlad Tzepelea – in translation THE IMPALER… like Dracula… Vlad
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Sep 29, 2010
                
                
                
                    THE BRUISED REED
As I talked with Nancy that day she said,"I pray to God every night and ask Him why He has been so unfair to me. Why did He leave me alive?" She is an elderly woman suffering the results of a stroke. She said "My Mother died of a stroke. Why didn't He take me too, instead of
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    IS THERE ANY HOPE?
Years ago an S-4 submarine was rammed by a ship off the coast of Massachusetts. It sank immediately. The entire crew was trapped in a prison house of death. Every effort was made to rescue the crew, but all ultimately failed.
Near the end of the ordeal, a deep sea diver, who
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
                
                
                
                    MIDDLE C
When Lloyd C. Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels, was a university student, he lived in a boarding house. Downstairs on the first floor was an elderly, retired music teacher who was infirm and unable to leave the apartment. Douglas said that every morning they had a ritual they
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE NEED FOR HOPE
Years ago an S-4 submarine was rammed by a ship off the coast of Massachusetts. It sank immediately. The entire crew was trapped in a prison house of death. Every effort was made to rescue the crew, but it ultimately failed. 
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                    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Nov 30, 2010
                
                
                
                    THE POWER OF HOPE
When 18 year old Heidi was thrown from a car and suffered a head injury it was a real miracle that she recovered and was soon in rehab at Crystus Santa Rosa. She was learning to walk again through rehab and therapy and a young 16 year old girl named Ashley was brought to Crystus
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PURPOSE IN LIFE
    
Many years before Abraham Lincoln was elected president, he was a store-keeper in Salem, Illinois. Abe had a rifle displayed in his store that was one of the most beautiful rifles ever made. The barrel was made from the finest steel, the stock from the best walnut wood; and a
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 20, 2011
                
                
                
                    WE ARE NOT JUST ANTS
Broadway play: Spider Man
Green Goblin has Spider Man in his grip as they fight atop the Chrysler Building in NYC.  It is hundreds of feet to the ground.  The Goblin says to Spider Man, "Look down there Spider Man.  What do you see?  Look at all those people.  They look like
                    
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                    SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
In 1502, in Florence, Italy there was a large block of marble given to a church in Santa Maria, the church immediately hired who they thought was a professional to sculpt this enormously huge piece of rock. The man was a professional and soon after commencing this great task
                    
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                    LIVING WITHOUT HOPE
There was one TV spot which we leased and in my opinion crossed all barriers being the most thought-provoking.  It pictured a man sitting in a room by himself with the camera coming up from behind him slowly.  As the picture slowly panned past the man to show his dejected face,
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
                
                
                
                    EVERYONE WANTS TO BE A WINNER
You want to know how bad it was to be a New Orleans Saints. Derland Moore, the Saints nose tackle from 1973 to 1985, once was asked what it was like to be a Saint, and said: "We were the league's doormats. When I went out and people would ask me if I played for the
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
                
                
                
                    WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE?
Many years before Abraham Lincoln was elected president, he was a store-keeper in Salem, Illinois. Abe had a rifle displayed in his store that was one of the most beautiful rifles ever made. The barrel was made from the finest steel, the stock from the best walnut wood; and a
                    
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