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                    PATRONIZING NONSENSE
Christian author C.S. Lewis said it best in his book Mere Christianity:
"I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God." 
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 11, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illus.:  “The Furnace Keeper”
One of the ancient kings of Persia loved to mingle with his people in disguise.  Once, dressed as a poor man, he descended the long flight of stairs, dark and damp to the tiny cellar where the fireman, seated on ashes, was tending the furnace..  The king sat down
                    
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                    I recall a story about how the wind and the sun were arguing about which of them was strongest.  “Look,” said the Wind, “I’ll prove to you that I am more powerful.  See that man down on the earth?  Let’s each exercise our power, and whoever can make the man shed his coat fastest will be
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Armbrester on Mar 24, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Have you ever watched a 2000-pound horse pull logs? A few years ago, a friend called to tell me that a man who lived over the hill from us was having some trees cut out of his yard and they were using a Belgium horse to drag the logs. Lisa, Adam, Aaron, and I loaded up and went to watch. Like most
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Evans on Sep 12, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A preacher and an atheistic barber were once walking through the city slums. Said the barber to the preacher: "This is why I cannot believe in a God of love. If God was as kind and loving as you say, He would not permit all this poverty, disease, and squalor. He would not allow these poor bums to
                    
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                    POVERTY BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF
  On the corner of Park Row and Beekman Street, New York City, where Horace Greeley’s Statue now stands, stood a man offering $20 gold pieces for $1 each.  All day he kept up loudly announcing his wares, but of the thousands that passed him, most paid no attention and
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on May 15, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Leslie B. Flynn  tells the story of an orphaned boy living with his grandma  when their house caught fire. The grandmother, trying to get upstairs to rescue the boy, perished in the flames. The boy’s cries for help were finally answered by a man who climbed an iron drainpipe and came back down with
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Our words can crush a person’s spirit, and they can leave people feeling hurt and hopeless.
For example, a middle-aged man had been fighting depression for most of his adult life. Several psychiatrists had agreed that the root problem was chemical and needed to be treated with anti-depressant
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 17, 2007
                
                
                
                    There was a very large family that lived out in the country. They were always having financial problems. There was never enough money for food or clothes. They lived in an old beat up shack that they rented. Fortunately they had recently shot and killed a bear that had wandered onto their property.
                    
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                    Contributed by Betty Johnson on Aug 18, 2008
                
                
                
                    There’s a story told about a fitness center.  This fitness center owner was offering $1,000 to anyone who could prove that they were stronger than he was.  Her’s how it worked: the owner of the fitness center was a real muscle man, and he would take a lemon and squeeze it until all the juice had
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2025
                
                
                
                    A rich millionaire decides to throw a massive party for his 50th birthday, so during this party he grabs the microphone and he announces to his guests that down in the garden of his mansion he has a swimming pool with two great white sharks in it. 'I will give anything they desire of mine, to
                    
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