Contributed by Timothy Smith on Dec 11, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is an old sermon illustration that I have heard many times but recently I  learned that the illustration has a basis in fact. A man by the name of John Griffith, lived in Oklahoma in 1929 and lost all he had in the stock market. He moved to Mississippi where he took a job as bridge tender for
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 19, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PLUNGING TO MURKY EARTH
A family was out vacationing at the lake one summer. Dad had been puttering out by the boat house. Two of his sons, a 12-year old and a 3-year old were down playing along the dock. The 12 year old was supposed to be watching his little brother, but he got distracted.  The 3
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Oct 19, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Paul Brand wrote in the March 4, 1983 issue of "Christianity Today:"
Blood spatters the pages of mythology and of history. Drinking it gives strength and new life: to the ghosts of the dead in The Odyssey, to the Roman epileptics who dashed onto the floor of the Coliseum to quaff the blood of
                    
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                    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Apr 30, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In a movie classic - National Lampoon’s Vacation - Chevy Chase - otherwise known as Clark Griswold - leads his family across the country to their dream vacation at Wally World.  Along the way, Clark gets lost several times.  One time happened to be in St. Louis.  After several wrong turns, the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A candy maker in Indiana wanted to make a candy that would be a witness, so he made the Christmas
Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ.
He began with a stick of pure white hard candy: white to symbolize the Virgin Birth and the sinless
                    
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                    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 30, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE BIGGER MIRACLE
Pastor Steve Yeschek lost his sister, Judy, after a five-year battle with cancer. She was a woman who, as Steve described her, was a party animal—-a big drinker with a self-contented lifestyle. She was someone everybody loved, because she exuded excitement and a thrill for life.
                    
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                    Contributed by Chris Mccarthy on Aug 17, 2010
                
                
                
                    THE CRAIGSLIST MURDER
When Charlene Sanders drove home from a routine day of work April 28, the last thing she expected was that she would be telling family of her husband’s death later that night.
At about 9 p.m. on April 28, Jim Sanders invited a young man and women into his home to view a ring
                    
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                    Contributed by Troy Borst on Apr 25, 2013
                
                
                
                    SIN CAUSES GOD PAIN
There is a book I read a few years ago, "Theology of the Pain of God" by Kazoh Kitamori, which added to my  view about how I see my relationship with God.  It is a deep theological book which looks at our relationship with God from the perspective of pain... and not our pain,
                    
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                    Moore notes from his book The History of Prayer in America One Nation Under God. Of a famous story of a dying soldiers last moments with God prior to his death from pages 312-313. The dying soldier’s last moments were discovered in the pocket of this dead American soldier, a casualty of the North
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 27, 2008
                
                
                
                    Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
The film takes place three years after the onset of the Clone Wars; the noble Jedi knights are spread out across the galaxy leading a massive clone army in the war against the separatists. After Chancellor Palpatine is kidnapped, Jedi master Obi-Wan
                    
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