LIVING STONES
I have to tell ya, I’m so proud of my baby girl.  She's working on a project for the school’s science-fair by growing citrine crystals in the basement.  What normally takes thousands of years to do in nature; chemists have somehow been able to reproduce in a matter of weeks.  I think
                    
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                    Contributed by David Moore on Aug 29, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The White Stone
The overcomers at Pergamos were given a white stone, and in the stone a new name written.The people of Pergamos were familiar with a number of customs involving the use of a white stone. They used a voters urn in which if you approved of a candidate you placed a white stone bearing
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    STONE AND SAND
A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Rings on Oct 18, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    STONING THE PASTOR
I bought some small rubber rocks from DC Works and put them on the chairs before people came into the room.  As I opened the message, I asked them if I said anything that was blasphemous if they would stone me. I told them not to be shy and to let me have it.  I then introduced
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Redder on May 21, 2018
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Have you ever shopped at Home Depot? Lowes? Or some other home repair-improvement type store? 
If you have you've inevitably seen the piles of lumber tossed aside that are broken, cracked, warped, crooked, or just plain look bad. These piles of lumber go ignored as faithful builders go for the
                    
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                    Contributed by Stephen Collins on Dec 11, 2008
                
                
                
                    JESUS THE ROSETTA STONE
Do remember the Rosetta Stone from history class in school?  What was it?  It was a tablet that was discovered that allowed archeologists to translate ancient, Egyptian hieroglyphics to modern-day languages.  Without the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, all the ancient
                    
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Marilyn Helleberg told about being a teenager at church camp. She said an ugly rumor got started there about two of the counselors and it quickly became the talk of the camp.
The next day, at Morning Prayer, the minister read the story of the adulterous woman. He spoke of Jesus telling the crowd
                    
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                    OUR WHITE STONE NAME
In the BBC reality show Monastery, a group of five men from diverse backgrounds voluntarily join a Benedictine monastery for a span of forty days. The five men don't have to assent to Christian beliefs, but they do have to respect and follow the monks' communal requirements--a
                    
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