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                    Gifting Occasions: About 53% of the gifters’ $2,062 annual budget is spent to buy gifts for holidays. After Christmas, which accounts for $843, Mothers Day is the next. The remaining 47% of the annual gifting budget is spent for gift occasions. Birthdays top the list with the typical gifter buying
                    
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                    Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 10, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    It is said that Mr. Moody, in his early days in Chicago, was a regular attendant on the noonday prayer meeting. At one of these meetings a rich brother rose and told those present of an opportunity to do a certain good thing if only three or four hundred dollars could be raised for the purpose, and
                    
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                    Contributed by John Tung on Mar 28, 2007
                
                
                
                    The importance of the personal over the legal is seen in the fact that God wants us to be personally involved with our children, and not just legally fulfill our obligations to them.  When our kids were younger, I remember Elizabeth telling me once before that when I am home I am home in body, but
                    
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                    Contributed by Don Jones on Mar 24, 2009
                
                
                
                    In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote, "Do not waste your time bothering whether you ’love’ your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this, we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone
                    
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                    Contributed by Kevin Barron on Dec 29, 2012
                
                
                
                    Steve McGuire, our retired county judge, mentioned to me the other day that when someone wishes him “Merry Christmas,” he will sometimes tell them, “I wish you a happy birthday for Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior!” He has seen, like all of us need to see, that Christmas was not just the lights
                    
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                    Simple as that God loves all, loves you, me and everyone we have ever met and seen, has no favourites hates none, excludes none all are precious and all have been given his greatest of gifts life and Jesus, all receive the former and have to chose to unpack the later to really receive the first
                    
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                    Chuck Swindoll writes, "Though God may at times seem distant, and though He is invisible to us, He is always invincible. This is the main lesson of the Book of Esther. Though absent by name from the pages of this particular book of Jewish history, God is present in every scene and in the
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
                
                
                
                    Let me tell about a man who in my book is a world-hugger. His parents called
him Billy Frank. His wife calls him Bill. His face is drawn by the
gravitational pull of years. The wrinkles on his brow betray a life of hard
work and stress. His legs are weak. So, too, his arms. His hands
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 2, 2007
                
                
                
                    Who is He in yonder stall, at whose feet the shepherds fall?
Who is He in deep distress, fasting in the wilderness?
Tis the Lord!  O wondrous story!  Tis the Lord! The King of glory!
At His feet we humbly fall, Crown Him!  Crown Him, Lord of all!
These are words to a popular Christmas hymn written
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 13, 2007
                
                
                
                    Bad Granny & Gramps.
I know grandparents who promised their grandchildren the same thing,
Finish high school and we will pay for your college;
	And they could, they were very, very, well off. 
	The grandparents picked the potential schools for each of the three children;
		Stanford, Berkley,
                    
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                    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 24, 2009
                
                
                
                    When I was in seminary, the administration asked me to go on a recruiting trip back to Central College, from which I had graduated. So one of the professors and I flew into DesMoines, Iowa, where the college chaplain picked us up. He started to drive us to Pella, a trip of about an hour. The three
                    
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