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I heard a story that illustrates this point in an interesting way. An author named Bret Harte wrote a story about the Wild West, called “The Luck of Roaring Camp.” Roaring Camp was the meanest, toughest Mining Town in all the West. There were more murders and thefts than any other place around.
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 20, 2008
Rosanna P. Smith said, After picking up our three-year-old on her first day of nursery school, my husband left the following message on my voice mail at work:
"Hi, honey. The good news is that Amanda got through her first day at school. The bad news is the teacher wants to meet with us.
"The good
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Several years ago C.S. Lewis wrote a book entitled “The Screwtape Letters. Screwtape was a Master Demon who wrote a series of letters to his nephew Wormwood, who was a Demon in training.
I came something this week that someone who had obviously read Lewis’ book had written. It is another letter.
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GROWTH IS ESSENTIAL OR ONE WILL GET STAGNATE AND BEGIN A DECREASE. Growth is essential to long term survival. We must learn to take advantage of opportunities and take risk.
GROWTH: improve, increase, develop, mature, progressive development, MATURITY, AGE, SIZE, WEIGHT, HEIGHT.
2 Peter 3:18
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Feb 14, 2003
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Did you hear about the man who went to the doctor because he had a severe obesity problem? The doctor examined him very carefully, and said, “I have some good news and some bad news.” “The good news is that there is not anything wrong with your
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Contributed by Steven Chapman on Feb 8, 2001
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Dr. Ellin Greene, of the University of Chicago, has said, "We get so quickly sidetracked from the simple story nature of our faith. We begin to think that theology saves us, that truth is somehow embodied in our theology of the Atonement, or our mastery of eschatological charts. But when Jesus
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2001
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The first glimmers that excluding design artificially restricts science come from admissions by scientists opposed to design. The arch-Darwinist Richard Dawkins begins his book The Blind Watchmaker by stating, "Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2002
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Dr. David Swift of the Smalley Relationship Center states why blended families have such a difficult time making things work.
"Most parents begin their second marriage by trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Until we realize that the two are different, we will waste time becoming angry,
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Contributed by Mark Lennon on Dec 17, 2002
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Illustration: Have you ever been in a cave when the lights were turned out? The darkness that overcome you, being able to see nothing. Picture this… they turn out the lights and said “See Ya!” Then your begin to remember the deep canyons and step cliffs that went straight down and you realize I
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Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Jan 27, 2004
In an exhibit hall in Cannes Hundreds of Picasso’s paintings were in chronological display from what he had painted as an adolescent all the way up to his experiments as an 85 year old master. During the exhibit one lady approached Picasso and told him, “She did not understand, his beginning works
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Contributed by Jay Robison on Aug 30, 2004
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What business is our church in? We are not all about buildings and budgets. Although it is important for us to be good stewards of those, they are not our primary business. We are in the people business. God has created and sustained this church that people may gather together and praise Jesus
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Contributed by Ric Feeney on Jan 7, 2005
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Mary Martin, famous Broadway actress who starred in “The King and I”, “Peter Pan”, Oklahoma” and “The Sound of Music”, among others, was asked to share the secret to how well she related to her audiences. She replied, “Before the show begins, I peek throught the curtains and while the audience is
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Contributed by Roy Carter on Dec 12, 2005
Gene Vieth in his Book “The Soul of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” brings up an interesting point here. He says that after Edmund leaves the Beaver’s house, Lewis begins writing from Edmunds point of view and that forces us see things from Edmunds point of view. It reminds us we have done
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Beulah Church in Lawrence County, Illinois, was a country Church I served for over four years beginning in 1980. Beulah has never had a financial crisis one reason being the fact that nearly all the Church family tithe. Another reason is that they are missionary minded people. They support I
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