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                    HARD TIMES FOR HELL 
Hell, it would seem, has fallen on rather lean times. It used to be that the vast majority of Christians, regardless of denominational affiliation, believed that Hell was a real place where the wicked and the impenitent go when they died. The very thought of the pains and
                    
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                    A Quaker farmer was having a hard time with his mule. No matter what he tried the mule would not get up. He told the mule I am a Quaker and you know I cannot hit you and I cannot curse you. However, I can sell you to my neighbor and he is not a Quaker and can beat the living daylights out of you.
                    
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                    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A mother crab who was having a hard time teaching her young the right way to
walk  went scurrying at the beach one day. Before too long, the mother crab
again chastised her son: "How many times do I have to tell you to walk
straight! Stop walking sideways! It¡¦s much more becoming to stroll
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Apr 17, 2008
                
                
                
                    A mother was having a hard time getting her son to leave for school one morning. "Nobody likes me at school," said the son. "The teachers don't and the kids don't. The superintendent wants to transfer me, the bus drivers hate me, the school board wants me to drop out, and the custodians have it in
                    
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                    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jun 11, 2004
                
                
                
                    I know some of you might have a hard time with it, but I really kind of enjoy living alone. Especially after being a middle-aged dorm student when I was in seminary. But there is one thing that I don¡¦t like. I can¡¦t blame anything on anybody. I mean, I have the dog, but there¡¦s a limit to what I
                    
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                    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jul 17, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Why do we have such a hard time quitting sin?
a.	We enjoy sin
God, make me good, but not yet. 
-St. Augustine.
b.	There is much to do
When a person becomes a Christian, he usually undergoes some radical life changes, especially if he has had an immoral background. Through the first steps of
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
                
                
                
                    Woman’s husband gave her a hard time… one day disconnected battery 
cables… car wouldn’t crank so without a word to her husband she started walking… he later felt bad, showed up at services & then obeyed the gospel
They live in a Barbie world wanting everything their Barbie 
had! Think: “If Barbie
                    
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                    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Feb 13, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One ELDERLY lady had come under HARD TIMES.  She would have to SELL her HOUSE and move into a RETIREMENT HOME.   Her children had tried to help her understand the SITUATION but she couldn’t seem to GRASP it.  She was WORRIED, FRETFUL, and UPSET all the time. 
	
Her son said, “Mom, everything is
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 18, 2025
                
                
                
                    [137].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – IF THERE IS DESPAIR SUCH AS IN VIRUS TIMES
This poem was written in the middle of the COVID virus, that terrible scourge from China.  Depending on where you lived in the world, you suffered repression from governments, some not too bad, but others were draconian. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WORKING HARD? 
Workers around America frankly admit that they spend more than 20 percent of their time (seven hours a week) at work goofing off.  That amounts to a four-day work week across the nation.  Almost half of Americans admit to chronic malingering, calling in sick when not sick, and doing
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Jun 20, 2009
                
                
                
                    CLEANING IS HARD WORK
When I was in Bible College. Fridays were not fun. Those were the nights we had "work sections." You heard me -- "work sections." We changed out of our holy threads to work-clothes and started cleaning the College, from scrubbing potatoes to scrubbing floors. And none of this
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WORKING HARD AT COMPLAINING
There was a lady who lived alone in a suburban apartment complex. Upset at the noise from the adjacent apartment that she claimed was disturbing her, she immediately picked up the phone and called her landlord. “You need to get up here right away,” she told him. “There
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    VERY HARD WORK
A favorite book for children is Frog And Toad Together by Arnold Lobel. Frog had a garden that Toad admired, and he wanted one too. So Frog told him: "It is very nice, but it was hard work." When he gave Toad some flower seeds, Toad quickly ran home and planted them.
"Now seeds,"
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    IT’S HARD BEING...
Pastor Ben Patterson, tells the following story:
My 5-year-old niece, Olivia, and her best friend, Claire, were participating in a nativity play at school. Claire was playing Mary, and Olivia was an angel. Before the show, a young boy was going around the dressing room
                    
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