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                    It is hard to believe now, but the potato was once a highly unpopular food. When first introduced into England by Sir Walter Raleigh, newspapers printed editorials against it, ministers preached sermons against it, and the general public wouldn’t touch it. It was supposed to sterilize the soil in
                    
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                    You might find this hard to believe but one vicar, William Haslam became a Christian through his own sermon – and from that very experience the 19th Century Cornish Revival was born 
William Haslam was a high church Anglican vicar in Cornwall in the 19th Century. 
In 1851, he had gone to stay
                    
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                    Contributed by David Moore on Mar 20, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    It’s hard to believe that body snatching is still going on. Of course during the 17th and early 18th centuries, body snatching was rife. A growing number of anatomists, keen to improve their medical knowledge, needed corpses on which to conduct dissections, bodies were difficult to come by, as it
                    
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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 Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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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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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 23, 2008
                
                
                
                    Yet, excuses still abound. “It’s too hard. It’s too messy. It’s too inconvenient. It’s takes too much time.” I just have one thing to say—“Wah!”
“It doesn’t really matter. What difference can I make?” Actually each one of us makes a huge difference. Do you believe that every single person matters
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 13, 2011
                
                
                
                    MARGARET: THE HARD SOIL
Each week I give a devotion in each of the 8 dining areas of the Shalom Centre and Margaret (not her real name) is there, with ears which will not hear. Her heart is a fortress, cold, hard, defensive. The gates are huge, old and impenetrable, bolted with fear and pride that
                    
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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 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 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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                    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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