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                    "The beauty of human life consists in the fact that, as we review our last New Years resolutions, we find we have fulfilled one-third of them, left unfilled
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
                
                
                
                    Touch is a powerful thing. It is a fact that holding newborns help them to thrive and live. God uses our appropriate touches to touch the lives of others.
How are your hands, how are our
                    
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                    Contributed by Perry Greene on Nov 23, 2011
                
                
                
                    LOOK WHAT WE DID!
The mouse and the elephant walked across the swinging bridge. Of course, the bridge shook and swayed under the elephant’s weight. When they reached the other side, they looked
                    
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                    Two guys are barreling down a hill. All of a sudden the brakes give out. The guy driving says, "Oh No! The brakes gave out! What are we gonna do!?" The other
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 12, 2008
                
                
                
                    Interactive Worship (praying for one another)
   At this point a chair is brought out called the mercy seat and people take turns sitting in the chair as others gather around to "lay hands on" and pray for.
(sorry this is not really a
                    
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                    Some choices carry greater consequences than others.  A student nurse came into the hospital room to give her 79-year-old patient a shot.  She asked him,
                    
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                    Contributed by Johnny Carver on Apr 12, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Eric woke up in the hospital after a devastating accident at his work place. He had a severely broken neck and a number of other traumatic injuries. When he was able to speak with the doctor, he asked what his chances of surviving and walking again. The doctor told him that only 3% of patients with
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 24, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I read a story once about a farmer in southern Louisiana who captured a mallard duck and tied it with a cord to a stake at the edge of a pond.  Through the winter the mallard swam around with the domestic ducks and even ate from the hand of the farmer.  When Spring came, all of the other wild ducks
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILL:  A wealthy businessman hosted a spectacular party in which he had filled his swimming pool with sharks, barracuda, and other assorted dangerous fish. He announced to his guests that he would like to challenge any of them to try swimming across the pool, and he would offer a first prize of
                    
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                    "The  intensive care waiting room  is a different world. No one is a stranger. They  help one  another.  They grieve with one another and shed tears of joy together. There is no  distinction  of race  or  class.  Vanity  and pretense vanish. Everything focuses on the next doctor’s report  or the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GUARDED BY THE SHEPHERD
Charles Spurgeon says this about the Great Shepherd:  
What is there in you, dear friend, more than there is in any other professor, why you should not prove an apostate after all? What is there about me that I should stand where so many others have fallen? 
There is
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Some of you have seen my darling daughter, Elaina. Others of you who are brave enough to venture into the nursery have seen Elaina the Terrible. Her cute features contort, her laughing disposition is clouded and her soft voice becomes a raging roar as she lets out cries at seeminly unnatural
                    
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                    Contributed by Dana Visneskie on Apr 23, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    At a meeting of the American Psychological Association, Jack Lipton, a psychologist at Union College, and R. Scott Builione, a graduate student at Columbia University, presented their findings on how members of the various sections of 11 major symphony orchestra perceived each other. The
                    
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                    Contributed by Chuck Cody on Oct 19, 2005
                
                
                
                    You see Lucy knows what she has seen and experienced is real. Her brothers and sisters couldn’t see it with their own eyes yet, and even though they knew Lucy had never been one to make up stories or lie, they could not on faith accept what she said. But she knew it was real. C.S. Lewis puts it
                    
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                    Les and Leslie Parrot share in their book Relationships this thought:
“Recently a pioneering band of researchers studied the age-old mystery of what makes people happy. Their answer is not what you might expect. What appears consistently at the top of the charts is not success, wealth, achievement,
                    
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