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                    How Do You Look at It?
A shoe manufacturer who decided to open the Congo market sent two salesmen to the undeveloped territory. One salesman cabled back: "Prospect here nil. No one wears shoes." The other salesman reported
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE?
Behavioral scientists have discovered that we usually see things that we are prepared to see.  This is all centered in a network of nerve cells called the "Reticular Activating System." Everybody has this system.  
The "Reticular Activating System." works like this:  Once
                    
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                    Imagine for a moment that you live in an old, run down, dilapidated shack.  One like one you see on World Vision pictures from 3rd world countries – rusty metal kind of thrown over top of a couple walls full of holes.  No running water.  No toilet.  Dirt on the floor when it is dry, mud when it is
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    An opinion is something you hold; a conviction is something that holds you.  An opinion is something you’ll argue about.  A conviction is something you will suffer for and, if necessary, die for.
Rick
                    
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                    Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 13, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Folks, the resurrection story is believable. You can believe in the death of Jesus. You can believe in the empty tomb. You can believe in the appearances Jesus made afterwards. It still takes a certain amount of faith to accept it as your own, but it’s like riding a bike. According the laws of
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 6, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illustration: If you use an alarm clock to wake you up in the morning, you know what a snooze button is. When the alarm goes off, you can hit the snooze button and get nine more minutes of sleep. There are two problems with the snooze button: (1) If we continue to hit the button, we may end up
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When you fully comprehend that there is more to life than just here and now, and you realize that life is just preparation for eternity, you will begin to live differently.  You will start living in light of eternity, and that will color how you handle every relationship, task, and circumstance. 
                    
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                    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Oct 29, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Many of you will probably recognize this song.  “It make you want to go where everybody know your name, and they’re always glad you came.  You wanna be where you can see our troubles are all the same.  You wanna be where everybody knows your name.”  The theme song for the 80’s TV sitcom “Cheers”
                    
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                    As you wait to build the relationships with those neighbors let me share with you something we learned a couple of years ago in our 50-Day Spiritual Adventure and that was how to pray for our neighbors using the acronym BLESS.
BODY—we pray for their health, protection and strength.
LABOR—for their
                    
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                    C. S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity:
	
Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before.  And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are
                    
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                    Pornography Addiction - Did you know?
a. ...that pornography consumption can be as mood altering and as addictive as narcotics? (Richard Drake, assistant professor at Brigham Young University College of Nursing) In fact, some studies have indicated that pornography can have the same effect on the
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 12, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    If you thought Christian martyrdom was merely a part of history, listen to this statistic: more Christians have been killed for their faith in this century alone than in the previous nineteen centuries combined. According to Paul Marshall, author of Their Blood Cries Out, in more than 60 countries
                    
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                    Bevere states, “If you are offended and in unforgiveness and refuse to repent of this sin, you have not come to the knowledge of the truth. You are deceived, and you confuse others with your hypocritical lifestyle. No matter what the revelation, your fruit tells a different story. You’ll
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    It is possible to live under a delusion. You think you are kind, considerate and gracious when you are really not. You think you are building positive stuff into your children when in reality, if you could check with them twenty years later, you really didn’t. What if you could read your own
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past. 
((Dr.
                    
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