Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 22, 2025
                
                
                
                    A few years ago at the Women’s Banquet, I was the head cook and decided to make meatballs, along with pasta, Italian bread, and salad.  I announced we had plates with 1 meatball for a small serving and 2 meatballs for a regular serving.  Some people were saying, “they are going to starve us.”  They
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim White on Jan 23, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A BLOCK IN THE CASTLE
It's a lot like the boy who was on vacation at the beach and built a beautiful sand castle. A bully came by and kicked the castle down, laughing at the boy's screams.
The next day, the boy found a concrete block and built the castle on the rock. He left the
                    
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                    THE MENTAL ATTITUDE
A person's mental attitude has an almost unbelievable effect on his powers, both physical ad psychological. The British psychiatrist, J.A. Hadfield, gives a striking illustration of this fact in his booklet, The Psychology of Power. 
"I asked three people," he wrote, "to
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2008
                
                
                
                    Stumbling Block of Envy
When I was a few months from graduation from seminary, the church I had attended during college had a position open and I was very interested in it. The pastor had become a spiritual mentor to me, and I was hopeful for the opportunity to work with him. 
When we met to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "The man with average mentality, but with control, a definite goal and a clear conception of how it can be gained and, above all, with the
                    
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                    Contributed by James O. Davis on Oct 28, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Progress of Knowledge -- The mental sign is seen first in the progress of knowledge.  Man’s knowledge doubles in less than 6 years.  By the time many medical students graduate, much of their earlier training is already obsolete.  Printed material doubles in less than 15 years.  Technology, for
                    
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                    Contributed by Michael Walther on Jul 11, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GOD'S WORD IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL
I think you'll agree that all true and sincere spiritual movement in your life has been caused and created by the word of God. 
I served for one year as a part-time chaplain at a mental hospital. One of my duties there was to help people suffering from chemical
                    
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                    Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
                
                
                
                    There was a mental hospital that devised a very unusual test to determine whether their patients were ready to go back into the real world. They took the mental patients who looked like they were making progress into a room where they had a water faucet that was turned on, and water was draining
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on May 11, 2007
                
                
                
                    A few blocks below my college was a restaurant that served only breakfast – and it was a great breakfast, cheap. What made this breakfast unique was that, except for the manager, everything was handled by mentally handicapped folks. They were the cooks, the waiters and waitresses, the busboy, the
                    
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                    "A victim of mental depression, once went to consult a skilled physician regarding his condition. The doctor prescribed some lively amusement, and told him of a celebrated clown, who was entertaining great companies in a certain place of amusement in the town. With an expression of despair on his
                    
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                    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Feb 6, 2004
                
                
                
                    A minister, going through a mental institution, was stopped by a woman, who asked: "Mr. Minister, what work of man will there be in Heaven?" "None, my dear lady," he said, thinking to answer as quickly as possible and get away. "Oh, yes, there will! Can’t you tell me?" "No, I cannot; but will you
                    
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                    Main Idea: Putting your faith in Jesus is more than just believing Jesus once lived. 
Verse: “You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!” (James 2:19 NLJV)
Illustration: Have you ever heard of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln? They were both American
                    
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