IF YOU WERE REMODELING YOUR HOME AND WERE GOING TO ADD AN EXTRA BEDROOM, BUT THE ONLY TOOL YOU HAD WAS A SCREWDRIVER, WOULD YOU WORK AND STRUGGLE TO BUILD THE ROOM WITH ONLY A SCREWDRIVER? OR WOULD YOU GO OUT TO THE STORE AND PAY THE PRICE FOR THE PROPER TOOLS TO GET THE JOB DONE EFFICIENTLY AND
                    
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                    Contributed by Nathan Garcia on Mar 8, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I’m going to be quoting from the book Messy Spirituality by Mike Yaconelli. “In a book by New Zealand author Mike Riddell, Vincent has met and fallen in love with a young girl named Marilyn. Neither one of them is seeking a relationship, but a relationship is seeking them. Swept up by their
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Burkey on May 16, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    According to one expert children go through 4 stages of dealing with their fathers. In stage one, they call you da-da. In stage 2 they grow and call you daddy. As they mature and reach
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 23, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    But what am I going to do with a verse like 1Thessalonians 3:3?  Well, there are several things I can do with it.  I could just jump over it and try to find something more positive to think about.  Have you ever thrown a rock across a pond or river and in such a way that it sort of skipped across
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Engler on Oct 12, 2005
                
                
                
                    If you tell your child to go to your room and clean it, and you say I want you to pick up all the clothes, make your bed, through away the trash, and vacuum the floor.  What have you done?  You’ve told your child that involved in cleaning the room is going, picking up clothes, making the bed,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
                
                
                
                    Where Does The Money Go? A recent Your Church magazine survey finds U.S. churches spend their median $203,590 annual budget as follows: 43% for staff compensation, 20% for facilities (rent, mortgage, utilities, upkeep), 16% for missions, 9% for church programs, 6% for administration and supplies,
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Tow on Apr 9, 2006
                
                
                
                    I am going to close with a clip from the movie, “Freaky Friday”.  In this fantasy, comedy Jamie Curtis plays a middle aged widow named Tess Coleman.  She has met someone she loves and is about to get married.  However, there is lots of conflict going on between her and her 15 year old daughter,
                    
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                    When you go through the fire you will develop godly character, patience, understanding how God works and knowing his timing, trust, confidence in God and his ability to keep you in any circumstance, a deeper relationship with God!!! 
You see, God is the God of Purpose and he intends to bring you
                    
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                    Contributed by Todd Pugh on Feb 6, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Michael Brown, “Go and sin no more” 20 reasons not to sin
1)	Sin does not satisfy
a.	Proverbs 27:20 Hell and Destruction are never full;  So the eyes of man are never satisfied.
b.	Hebrews 11:25 talks about, “the passing pleasures of sin,”
2)	Sin leads to More sin
3)	Sin Leads to Worse Sin
4)	Sin
                    
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                    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Feb 10, 2007
                
                
                
                    Jesus knew He was going to die.  Jesus always lived in the shadow of the cross.  
William Holman Hunt was a 19th-century British painter.  One of his paintings shows the interior of a carpenter’s shop.  Joseph and the young man Jesus are working inside.  The painting shows Jesus pausing from His
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
                
                
                
                    57% of workers have to go in late, leave early or take time off to care for a loved one. 6% give up work
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    DR. HENRY BRANDT told of going to visit a friend whose wife had died.  While there he shared these wonderful words of the apostle Paul from II Cor. 1:3-4, 8-11a:  "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all
                    
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