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                    Acts 17:27 says, "He is not far from each of us." A little boy and his sister were playing outside. The boy said something ugly to his sister. She said, "God hears what you say." The boy said, "No, God didn’t hear me He is to far away." That’s how many people think of God. So, we rely upon our own
                    
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                    Contributed by Shane Hart on Jan 13, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is an organization near Chicago with approximately 12,000 members
It requires each one of its members to give up one day’s earnings every week which averages out to about $110 per person equaling about $1.3 mil a week to further their cause.
When a person joins this organization they must
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 25, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Spiritual Near-Sightedness
One of my favorite riddles is this one
Q: What did the near-sighted porcupine say when it backed into a cactus?
A: Pardon me, honey!
 If you are near-sighted, you see objects that are near, but distant objects are blurry or unclear. To put is simply, you are equipped to
                    
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                    VITICULTURE IN THE NEAR EAST
 
The vine has been cultivated in Pal. from the earliest times.  The climate of Pal. is peculiarly adapted to viticulture with the country's bright sunshine and the heavy dew of the late summer nights (Tenney Pg. 882)
Its Cultivation
The cultivation of the vine
                    
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                    Contributed by C Jordan on Dec 14, 2007
                
                
                
                    QUOTE –GOD CAME NEAR:
“They were too busy. The day was upon them. The day’s bread had to be made. The morning’s chores had to be done. There was too much to do to imagine that the impossible had occurred. God had entered the world as a baby. Yet, were someone to chance upon the sheep stable on the
                    
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                    Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Dec 14, 2022
                
                
                
                    Christmas Must Be Near
When soft snowflakes fill childish dreams,
And Missy hangs the mistletoe.
Then gift shoppers show up in streams,
And Mike the mailman is bending low.
When the generosities astound,
Then through the air, we hear the sound
Of joy-bells ring…
“Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling!”
Then
                    
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                    Contributed by David Browne on Dec 9, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    On a wall near the main entrance to the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, is a portrait with the following inscription: "James Butler Bonham--no picture of him exists. This portrait is of his nephew, Major James Bonham, deceased, who greatly resembled his uncle. It is placed here by his family so that
                    
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                    Contributed by Warren Bird on Jan 18, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is a wonderful moment near the end of “The Return of the King” when the four hobbits are stunned that the newly crowned king of men, Aragorn, kneels to honour them. I take this as an illustration of the literal
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2005
                
                
                
                    Most remarkable are the NDEs [Near Death Experiences] of little children.  Diane Komp, an oncologist and professor of pediatrics at Yale University, did not start her adult life as a believer.  “When I was in medical school,” she told Life magazine, “I was hanging out somewhere on that nebulous
                    
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                    Contributed by Roy Carter on Dec 5, 2005
                
                
                
                    And near the end of Book 3 of The Chronicles The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as Edmund and Lucy find that they have to go back to their world and will not be coming into Narnia anymore
Lucy sobs, “It isn’t Narnia, you know, it’s you.  We shan’t meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    On a wall near the main entrance to the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, is a portrait with the following inscription: "James Butler Bonham--no picture of him exists. This portrait is of his nephew, Major James Bonham, deceased, who greatly resembled his uncle. It is placed here by the family that
                    
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                    Contributed by James Stewart on Nov 17, 2006
                
                
                
                    Up in the northern parts near the source of the Mississippi, it was a bitterly cold winter, and the Mississippi River had frozen over. There was a man who, rather than going to the bridge, decided he would walk across the frozen ice. He didn’t see anyone else out there. It looked so crusty and so
                    
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                    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Nov 17, 2008
                
                
                
                    “Perhaps Western culture is nearing a point where the Christian faith can be successfully reintroduced.  Maybe the collapse of the present order will lead to a new outbreak of
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew  Rogers on Feb 20, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Imagine being near a mountain lake.  Sometimes early in the morning when the lake is perfectly calm, the reflection of the mountains is magnificently duplicated and mirrored on the lake’s surface.  The interesting thing is that if you were to take on little flat stone and skip it across the surface
                    
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