Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
                
                
                
                    AVOIDING THE ROCKS
Alan was my prayer partner at a previous church and he tells the story of going white water rafting on a Christian retreat. He said he always got stuck being the captain of the boat and sure enough for the 4th year in a row, he was named captain. So his job was to direct the men
                    
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                    Contributed by J.d. Tutell on Jan 13, 2012
                
                
                
                    A MAN AND HIS PORSCHE
A New York stockbroker had just purchased a brand new Porsche.  He parked it in front of his office to show it off to his colleagues.  As he's getting out of the car, an SUV comes speeding along too close to the curb and takes off the door before driving off.  The man gets
                    
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                    Contributed by Chris Surber on Feb 5, 2009
                
                
                
                    I recall one sunny afternoon when I was 13 years old and had only recently moved to Butte, Montana where I lived for a couple of years during high school with my father and grandfather.  One afternoon I was exploring a very old log cabin style garage on the back of the property where we lived.  It
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    *Some Gifts You Keep*
Some things you keep.  Like good teeth.  Warm coats.  Bald husbands & chubby wives.  They’re good for you, reliable and practical and so sublime that to throw them away would make the garbage man a thief.  So you hang on to the older gifts, because something old is sometimes
                    
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                    Dear Dad, 
Heroes are men who first of all are heroes for God and then heroes to their families. To be a hero for God, you need to yield your life 100% to Him. 
What's in this name "hero"? Josh McDowell shares, 
"A few years ago, a radio jockey polled almost two hundred teenagers in a shopping
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 14, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jesus calls us to be people who 
Live in present-tense.
An average person¡¦s anxiety is focused on :
40% -- things that will never happen 
30% -- things about the past that can’t be changed 
12% -- things about criticism by others, mostly untrue 
10% -- about health, which gets worse with stress
                    
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                    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Dec 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The attention of the country was recently focused on a high school football game in McDermott, Ohio.  In the final quarter, Dave Frants and Derek Dewit, the rival coaches called a timeout, conferred together, and agreed upon a highly unusual play.  On one team was 17-year old Jake Porter, a
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Differing Teen Personalities: Researcher George Barna says American teens fall into four personality niches. Nearly half are Interactives—highly personable and develop their lifestyle according to relational possibilities and parameters. They operates with a stream of consciousness approach to
                    
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                    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on May 9, 2009
                
                
                
                    When I was teaching Middle School, I faced a problem that’s common to all teachers.  I’d be giving instructions to the class, and while I was talking, one or two hands would flip up into the air.  They had a question.  I wasn’t finished giving the instructions, and already they had questions.  My
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 16, 2009
                
                
                
                    A SPIRITUAL RHYTHM
Developing a rhythm in your spiritual life means organizing your life around times of stopping to remember God. What is important is not the length of time but that you regularly stop to refocus on God. It could be five minutes or forty minutes. It could be your break time.
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Dec 15, 2009
                
                
                
                    Recently, I caught a segment on TV of a movie called Jack.  It’s the story of a boy that ages four times faster than usual.  Robin Williams plays the role of Jack.  He enters public school for the first time in the fifth grade.  Though he has the emotional and mental development of a fifth grade
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 7, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ISAAC WATTS
Isaac Watts was a genius. At four years of age, he had learned Latin, at nine Greek, at 11 French, and at 13 years old, Hebrew. His poetic re-working of the Psalms was magnificent. 
Unfortunately for poor Isaac, he was not a looker. His one chance at love came and went with a young
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 2, 2009
                
                
                
                    COME HELL OR HIGH WATER
Glen and Jo Ann live in Orange County, California in a low lying area.  It flooded one year and the local newspaper sent a reporter, in a boat, out to Glen and Jo Ann’s neighborhood.  The reporter found Jo Ann, sitting on their roof watching large objects floating by, so he
                    
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