Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Jan 19, 2009
                
                
                
                    There is no better example of heart in community than the life of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol. We watch the miserly, pointy-nosed, blue-lipped, red-eyed grouch barely giving his trusted employee Bob Cratchit time away from work on Christmas Day to be with his
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Dec 15, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Allah or Jesus? 
Last month I attended my annual training session that’s required for mai  
ntaining my state prison security clearance. During the training session 
there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, 
Protestant and Muslim faiths who explained their belief
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Hensley on May 17, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    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 A. Todd Coget on Aug 17, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [Linked at the Roots, Citation: Blair F. Rorabaugh, Uniontown, Ohio. Leadership, Vol. 12, no. 2]
The article "What Good Is a Tree?" in Reader’s Digest explained that when the roots of trees touch, there is a substance present that reduces competition. 
In fact, this unknown fungus helps link roots
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE BIG RETURN ON FAITHFULNESS
It was a stormy night in Birmingham, England, and Hudson Taylor was to speak at a meeting at the Severn Street schoolroom. His hostess assured him that nobody would attend on such a stormy night, but Taylor insisted on going. "I must go even if there is no one but
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Jul 27, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The scene was San Diego Superior Court. Two men were on trial for armed robbery. An eyewitness took the stand, and the prosecutor moved carefully: 
“So, you say you were at the scene when the robbery took place?” 
“Yes.” 
“And you saw a vehicle leave at a high rate of speed?”
“Yes.” 
“And did you
                    
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                    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 23, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The article "What Good Is a Tree?" in Reader’s Digest explained that when the roots of trees touch, there is a substance present that reduces competition. 
In fact, this unknown fungus helps link roots of different trees--even of dissimilar species. 
A whole forest may be linked together. 
If one
                    
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                    Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Apr 6, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “The Fundamental idea of Spirit in Hebrew and Greek is breath, air, wind, storm – the intensity depending on the context.  It may be a gentle breath (John 20:22), a gale-force wind (Ex 15:8), a cooling breeze (Gen 3:8).  Most essentially Spirit is transcendent and divine, not mere flesh; it is the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Parents Support Abstinence based sex education  according to a new Zogby International poll. It found that 75% of parents disapproved of the condom-based sex education curriculum promoted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 61% also disapproved of the “comprehensive” sex
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2007
                
                
                
                    Individuals Read Web Pages in an “F” pattern. They’re more inclined to read longer sentences at the top of a page and less and less as they scroll down says a recent Nielsen Norman Group study. That makes the first 2-3 words of a sentence very important. Surfers connect well with images of people
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
                
                
                
                    Individuals Read Web Pages in an “F” pattern. They’re more inclined to read longer sentences at the top of a page and less and less as they scroll down says a recent Nielsen Norman Group study. That makes the first 2-3 words of a sentence very important. Surfers connect well with images of people
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    DEAD CHRISTMAS
A television interviewer was walking the streets of Tokyo at Christmas time. Much as in America, Christmas shopping is a big commercial success in Japan. The interviewer stopped one young woman on the sidewalk, and asked, "What is the meaning of Christmas?" Laughing, she responded,
                    
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