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                    The Cocooning Lifestyle Peaked in ‘98 when the typical household spent $1,601 on home furnishings and it’s been falling since. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the American household spent only $1,497 on home furnishings in ‘03. Consumers are downscaling, downsizing and eliminating clutter.
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Nov 4, 2006
                
                
                
                    There is no wonder that God considered us worthy dying for, when one realises how intimately He knows us! His love for you is so deep that he has numbered every hair on your head – and renumbers them when some fall out (Matthew 10:30)! 
Around that verse, in verse 29 and then the verses following
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 10, 2009
                
                
                
                    GOD'S LOVE IS WITH YOU
God’s promise is not that we will not suffer or have grief, pain and trouble; his promise is more amazing than that. It is that he will be with us in all of those moments, he will never leave us and forsake us. God loves us too much to leave us to face these moments alone.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is a story about a man who had to cross a wide river on the ice. He was afraid it might be too thin, so he began to crawl on his hand and knees in great terror. He thought he might fall through at any moment. Just as he neared the opposite shore, all exhausted, another man glided past him
                    
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                    ILUSTRATION
God gave me a dream one night, I was on the platform preaching in a large church with a pie shaped auditorium, and there were people there I knew and people I didn’t know. The presence of the Lord had inhabited the place and the glory was falling. God told me, this was my pastorate. 
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    DON'T SWEAT MESSING UP
Most men think that they have to be perfect when they’re with their kids.  This is not only not good, it's bad training.  Better you should just continue being a mess-up.  Fall off your bike.  Drop an easy pop fly.  Order a really dumb product from some lame infomercial you
                    
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                    Contributed by Keith Davis on May 5, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Hammers and Anvils
I paused last eve beside the blacksmith’s door.
And heard the anvil ring, the vesper’s chime.
And looking in I saw upon the floor
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.
“How many anvils have you had?” said I.
To wear and batter all these hammers so?”
“Just one,” he
                    
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                    Contributed by Don Hawks on Feb 3, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When I was attending Bluefield College as a young man many years ago I was talking to a pastor of an Independent Baptist church—someone I had known for several years in my hometown.  The college had just started allowing dancing on campus about the time I started attending there.  The Pastor I
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
                
                
                
                    Even when a remarriage does involve adultery, the adultery relates to the initiating act and not to the state. In some cases, remarriage does not involve adultery. God can, in fact, lead believers into second marriages which are totally free of that stigma.
	We see a parallel in the commandment,
                    
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                    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jun 15, 2010
                
                
                
                    I know a mom who denies God’s call upon her teenage boy and is constantly trying to lure him by feeding his flesh with earthly things so that he is satisfied with the things of the world and would not focus and pursue God’s call upon his life. She has been going to extents like getting young girls
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 5, 2010
                
                
                
                    WHEN CHRIST IS IN CONTROL
Martin Luther was often very graphic in his description of the activities of the Devil.  Asked one time how he overcame the Devil, he replied, "Well, when he comes knocking upon the door of my heart, and asks 'Who lives here?' the dear Lord Jesus goes to the door and
                    
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                    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Sep 21, 2010
                
                
                
                    TOO CLOSE TO WHERE WE GOT IN
A little boy fell out of the bed in his sleep. His father picked him up and put him back in bed. He asked him, "Son, what happened?" The little boy responded, "I fell asleep too close to where I got in." 
I believe that describes too many Christians today. They have
                    
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