Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2002
                
                
                
                    The man who simply drifts into success in any field of human activity is almost as rare as the ship that drifts aimlessly into a safe harbor.
John Milton Gregory, The Seven Laws of
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2003
                
                
                
                    A study at UCLA discovered that we need at least eight to ten meaningful touches a day for our emotional health.
John Ortberg and Ruth Haley Barton, An Ordinary Day with
                    
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                    Words are very powerful and they can inflict a tremendous amount of pain on a person.  “In fact,” Christian Author and Speaker John Maxwell says, “that after the bruises have disappeared and
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    1 Peter 2:21-23 21 For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, 22 who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; 23 and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 20, 2009
                
                
                
                    WOODEN'S ATTITUDE
Coach John Wooden at U.C.L.A. won 665 games in 27 seasons and 10 NCAA titles during his last 12 seasons, including 7 in a row from 1967 to 1973. His UCLA teams also had a record winning streak of 88 games, four perfect 30-0 seasons, and won 38 straight games in NCAA 
Tournaments.
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Aug 7, 2007
                
                
                
                    Whom God would destroy, He first makes blind. There comes a point in the rising tide of human wickedness, where God acts. In preparation he blinds.
John Phillips, Exploring
                    
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                    Contributed by C Jordan on Jan 9, 2010
                
                
                
                    "I believe God wants us to dream, and to dream big, because He’s a big God who wants to do big things and He wants to do them through us."
                    
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                    A dream without a positive attitude produces a daydreamer.
A positive attitude without a dream produces a pleasant person who can’t progress.
A dream together with a positive attitude produces a person with
                    
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                    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Feb 4, 2008
                
                
                
                    There is an old saying among evangelists: “The hardest work is not getting folks saved, but getting them lost.” John Piper adds: “The hardest thing is not to satisfy thirst, but to make people
                    
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                    Contributed by C Jordan on Jan 2, 2010
                
                
                
                    DREAM BIG
"I believe God wants us to dream, and to dream big, because He’s a big God who wants to do big things, and He wants to do them
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Spear on Sep 6, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. Worship...is the fuel and goal of missions.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    COME AND LISTEN TO MY STORY… 
"[Using] the very latest equipment, Texaco workmen set about drilling for oil at Lake Peigneur in Louisiana during November 1980.
"After only a few hours of drilling they sat back expecting oil to shoot up. Instead, however, they watched a whirlpool form, sucking down
                    
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                    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Dec 9, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Several years ago, missionaries had difficulty in communicating the good news of Jesus Christ to the Chinese people. But one day, there was a breakthrough.
A missionary was studying a particular Chinese ideograph, the one which means "righteous." He noticed that it contained an upper and lower
                    
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                    Examine your hearts today as you partake of the body and blood of Christ.  Repent of any thought, word, or deed that the Holy Spirit points out in your life that is not pleasing to God.  Rededicate yourself to being His disciple, and receive the heart warming assurance John Wesley experienced on
                    
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