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                    W.A. Criswell once said, Jesus said on the cross “It is finished.” 
(Luke 19:30)  What that means is that salvation is “Something outside of
myself.  Something with which I had nothing to do.  I add nothing to it.  I take
nothing away.  I just receive it as a gift from my Lord.  And the rest of my
                    
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                    A beggar stopped a lawyer on the street in a large city and asked him for some coins.  Taking a long, hard look into the man’s unshaven face, the attorney asked, "Don’t I know you from somewhere?" 
   "You should," came the reply.  "I’m your former classmate.  Remember, 2nd floor, old Oxford High
                    
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                    Contributed by Dana Chau on Jun 17, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Before CalFed Bank turned into Citibank, there was an advertisement that showed a toddler driving a parent crazy, and then words that suggest that while CalFed cannot help you take control of your child, it can at least help you take control of your finances.  
Children have ways of bringing
                    
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                    Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 21, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Picture this: The nation enters WW2, and a son receives notification that he has been drafted into the armed forces. The son ships out, leaving his loving parents behind. He also leaves behind his most prized possession, a 1930 Ford Model A coupe. Will the father of this lad will simply allow that
                    
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                    Contributed by Daryn Bahn on Jul 18, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Have you ever seen the show, M*A*S*H*?  At Lifest, Reggie Dabbs told us about a M*A*S*H* unit.  Because of the vast number of wounded, they had to color code the victims of war.  Yellow was good.  If you had a yellow card put on you, it meant that your injury was not serious.  You were given an
                    
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                    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Aug 26, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Brennan Manning wrote: “If Jesus would appear at your dining table tonight with knowledge of everything you are and are not, total comprehension of your life story and every skeleton hidden in your closet; if he laid out the real state of your present discipleship with the hidden agenda, the mixed
                    
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                    Contributed by Kelly Grant on Sep 10, 2003
                
                
                
                    A young eight-year-old boy lost part of his right arm in a tragic accident at home. The boy soon began to struggle with great sadness and depression because of his injury. As he recovered at home the new pastor of his church came to his house to pay a visit. The boy’s father announced that the
                    
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                    "We were on shipboard," relates a captain’s wife, "lying in a Southern harbor.  We were obliged, first to make our way ashore.  The waves were rolling heavily.  I became frightened at the thought of attempting it, when one came to me, saying, ’Do not be afraid: I will take care of you.’ "He bore a
                    
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                    Contributed by Pat Cook on Nov 2, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Some like to come down hard on sin, and so they come down hard on people. To be forgiven and walk away scott-free is hard to understand. And when it comes to others, we don’t like to believe that it is for them. But Robert Farrar Capon, in the book Between Noon and Three, said this: You’re worried
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    My father smoked all of my life so I grew up breathing second hand smoke. I never saw it as a good thing until the day I was thrust into the smoking section of a run down nursing in a big city. The room was just thick with the smoke and my fellow ministry team members couldn’t even stand it, so
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Christian on Jan 10, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One of the keys understanding our relationship to God is in understanding that God wants us to obey Him not for His sake, but for ours.  God loves us so much that He wants us to avoid the pitfalls and disappointments of this life.  He knows that when we take on the attitude of Christ, we will be
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Christian on Jan 17, 2004
                
                
                
                    You should have seen the back of our Excursion on our trip to South Carolina.  You would have thought we were moving back!  We didn’t know whether the weather would be hot or cold, and we didn’t know whether or not we would be able to do some laundry while we were there, so we packed heavily and
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 9, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SPECIAL DELIVERY
Susan Filipp writes:  
My husband, Alex, and I were overjoyed when the doctor confirmed I was pregnant. "Thank you, God," I prayed. "Please let everything go right." And things did—until I went into labor two weeks early.
    Alex and I rushed to the hospital at 5:30 A.M. In the
                    
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                    When I think of the wording in this verse of being marked with a stamp,
the first thing that comes to mind is a USDA meat inspector’s seal. For them this seal
says that the product is okay for human consumption. But then I think about it
a little more and realize that unlike the USDA stamp, the
                    
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                    Contributed by Glen Lawhun on Apr 3, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    On September 19th 2002 we visited Heartland Retirement center to visit with
a gentleman by the name of Hubert Finney. A good sister in our congregation at Carrey’s Run Church of Christ had been talking to Hubert about becoming a Christian. Hubert was 88 years old and on Oct. 15th, 2002 he was 89.
                    
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                    Contributed by John Harvey on Apr 28, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	In August of 1983, I started my sophomore year in high school.  At that time I made the conscious decision not to be the good little girl anymore.  I had a crush on someone I had known for the past 3 years and I was going to date him.  Well, not only did he become my boyfriend, before long he had
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 1, 2004
                
                
                
                    Corporations often ask their constituents to vote “by proxy.” The proxy is an authorized agent who votes on our behalf, your representative.
The human race has only two proxies: Adam and Jesus Christ. Adam is the default proxy, for we are all
                    
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