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                    The world famous Polish piano maestro, Ignace Paderewski, had been invited to appear at one of the great music centers of New York. It was a very formal evening with everyone wearing tuxedos and evening gowns. In the audience was a lady who brought her little boy along for the concert. She thought
                    
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                    Contributed by Jerry Falwell on Mar 7, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A steward is like a manager of a local McDonald’s Restaurant who carries out the aims of the owners, maximizes profits, while handling all the problems.  Dr. Towns teaches a stewardship lesson in the Pastor’s Bible Class at Thomas Road Baptist Church which is the most requested lesson of all he has
                    
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                    We will find that sometimes that there are people who have not been healed because they have not forgiven someone.  A person who has not forgiven another could wind up being physically sick or sick in spirit and attitude or even both. There is the story of a young lady who had anaemia and the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    JESUS- NOT HATE BUT HOPE
"Jesus. 
It’s a little name. 
A small word.
Say this little name in public, however, in a way other than an obscenity, and stand back and watch the fireworks. 
This little name is like a tiny detonator that triggers a nuclear warhead.
You can say "God," and you won’t get a
                    
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                    Illustration from Michael McCartney-- A case in point of some one thinking incorrectly.
 Last Wednesday night I had an individual come to church. He was drunk and came into the café building being provocative and vulgar with me. He said, “Pastor Mike I have come to get you to beat the devil out of
                    
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                    The sign in the window read: "Boy Wanted".  Young John Simmons, though he was lazy, saw his opportunity and applied. He was quickly hired by elderly Mr. Peters.  The pace was leisurely so he enjoyed the job.  Toward the middle of the afternoon however, he was sent up to the attic -- a dingy place
                    
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                    	Amy Biehl died a violent death in 1993.  She was a 26-year-old Fulbright scholar who had gone to South Africa to help register black voters for their first free election.  But even though she was seeking to help the people of South Africa, as she was driving one day, she was dragged out of her
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 29, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The sign in the window read: “Boy Wanted”. Young John Simmons, though he was lazy, saw his opportunity and applied. He was quickly hired by elderly Mr. Peters. The pace was leisurely so he enjoyed the job. Toward the middle of the afternoon however, he was sent up to the attic — a dingy place full
                    
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                    STORY OF MARK TWAIN - Clarence Macartney wrote about the unbelief of Mark Twain. 
  Mark Twain (1835-1910) was one of our best-known American authors and humorists.  His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.  He is best known for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of
                    
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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 Sunny Philip on May 16, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Susanna Wesley was a mother who had gone through much in her life. To begin with, during the first nineteen years of her married life, she gave birth to nineteen children. That turned out to be the least of her problems. Eight of those children died of natural causes and sickness. One child was
                    
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                    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Sep 27, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A visiting preacher once stayed in a house of a widow. He’d arrived on the Saturday before he was to preach on the Sunday, and the lady of the house, being that sort of person, had given up her bedroom for the guest. When he got up in the morning he threw back the curtains and looked out on a
                    
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                    When I took my first church as a pastor fresh out of Bible College. I visited with a man who frequently attended the church. When I met with him to talk about the church and my new leadership he asked a request of me. He said, “If you agree with the following then I will continue to attend the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
                
                
                
                    We need to understand that when we share our faith, we cannot get discouraged when others do not accept Christ, because there are those in this world that will NEVER accept Christ…
I recently read an account of a young Christian in the military who tells about sharing his faith with another
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 25, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Dorothy Sayers, in a book of her essays entitled The Whimsical Christian, has one essay called “The Greatest Drama Ever Staged,” where she writes, “The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore — on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe.  It
                    
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