Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
                
                
                
                    BEHIND THE MASK
In Basel, Switzerland each year the good Protestant townspeople have a festival in which they all don masks and go through the city doing things and going placed they would never consider doing/going under normal circumstances. The mask, which veiled their identity emboldened them
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jul 6, 2010
                
                
                
                    WHO ARE THOSE MASKED MEN?
Some of you would have no idea of who I am talking about when I speak of the LONE RANGER. He is way before your time and he doesn't fit into our culture anymore. Pity. He had a strict moral code and even the actor, Clayton Moore, was a great ROLE MODEL for
                    
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                    Why do people wear masks?
Several years ago, I had a nightmare, it was terrible.
 For many days my spirit was greatly troubled.
 In a dream, I saw one of my most serious workers at 
 church dying a terrible death. 
 As my church worker was dying, 
 I saw a battle going against my member. 
 I was
                    
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                    Contributed by Allan Kircher on Jul 20, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Take off the masks of fake religion, self righteousness and put on God’s power He placed
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Bond on Jan 24, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In ancient Greece they had great theatrical events, plays in large amphitheaters. They didn’t have microphones to make their voices heard, and they didn’t have cameras to magnify their images onto screens, so they invented their own system. They developed big masks. The masks made them look like
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian Mavis on Oct 27, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    You share Christ by imitating Christ. A story is told – by Fredrick Beuchner I believe – called “The Happy Hypocrite." It is a story about a man who was born with an awful facial deformity. He grew up alone and lonely. When reaching adulthood, he decided to move from his town to begin a new life.
                    
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                    Contributed by Jonathan  Busch on Dec 22, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Many people are seeking laughter in their heart when they are really needing peace. Laughter is to a wounded heart what morphine is to terminal cancer. When the medicine is gone the pain is back.
                    
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                    Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Sep 18, 2011
                
                
                
                    VALUE FROM BROKENNESS
"Going once, going twice, sold for $7,000.00!" The auctioneer said right before his gavel hit the table. Rita Coors was elated. She'd just purchased a porcelain mask, hand painted by John Denver.
She couldn't wait to hold it in her hands. As the auctioneer at the 1997
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009
                
                
                
                    DEMAND VS. CHOICE
A demand masked as a request is worse than a demand. Like giving kids a choice when there is no choice.  "Would you like to go to Gramas?" implies of the option of choosing either way, and it is
                    
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                    Contributed by Bryan Crumpler on Oct 2, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Americans are getting warned to death. Manufactures are growing increasingly wary of being sued when their products are misused, so they are attaching warning labels to hundreds of items.
For example, a Batman outfit bears this caveat: “Parents, please exercise
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 17, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    BREATHING IN THROUGH A GENTLE ANSWER
On every trip they take, frequent fliers hear these words from the flight attendant: “In an emergency, please make sure your oxygen mask is in place before assisting your child with their mask.”
Have you ever wondered why this instruction is given? Because if
                    
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