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                    Movie clip from "Just Married" (Used as an introduction to "dealing with Divorce Part 1")
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Tommy and Sarah have returned to the States after an amazingly bad honeymoon in Europe. Even though they were just married, they have separated. Tommy is sitting on the couch at his Dad’s house,
                    
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                    Contributed by Darryl Klassen on Jul 27, 2007
                
                
                
                    “In God’s economy, ownership is very different. The Bible tells us that we are here for but a moment, that our lives are a puff of smoke. I have never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul. Mother Theresa is merciless on this theme. She said that “if you have two jackets, one belongs to the poor.” This
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 10, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILLUSTRATION : Martyrdom of Zewar, Christian taxi driver in Northern Iraq.
After hostilities ceased in the Iraq war on the 9th of April 2003, an Open Doors team went to the country two weeks later. They visited church leaders primarily to tell them that we were praying for them, and were ready to
                    
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                    That which Ad¡¦am needed most, was that which God was happy to supply.  The rib has always caused a lot of speculation.  One wag offered this conversation between God and Ad¡¦am,
Lord, I¡¦m lonely.  I need to have some company here.
OK, Ad¡¦am.  I¡¦m going to give you the perfect woman.  
„« She
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 29, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WASHINGTON'S REQUEST
"I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and
                    
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                    Contributed by Dana Chau on May 14, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Someone described hell as a place where people are holding 10-foot long spoons trying to feed themselves.  And they starve to death because of their selfishness.  But in heaven, people are holding 10-foot long spoons feeding each other.  And they not only have full stomachs but also live happy
                    
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                    Illustration: Both Glad and Sad.
We were told of an old legend about three men crossing a desert on horseback at night. Approaching a dried-up pond bed, they heard a voice commanding them to stop and dismount, pick up some pebbles, put them in their pockets, and not look at them until the morning.
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 6, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Many years ago, a day was dawning on a battlefield in northern France, through a fog so thick that no one could see more than a few yards from the trenches.  In the night the Germans had drawn back their lines a little and the French had gone forward.  But between the two positions a lonely
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 2, 2005
                
                
                
                    By the time Rockefeller was fifty-three his life was a wreck. Throughout his business career he said, “I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.” He was the richest man in the world and yet he was miserable in every sense of
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 3, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One way baptism becomes a source of division, is when preachers emphasize it so much that they neglect the condition of the heart. It leads to people being baptized for the wrong reasons.
{Video Clip: My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Start Chp.10:50:10 - End: Chp.10:52:27 = 2:17}
     Now being
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Sep 3, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Sez I to myself, as I grumbled and growled,
Im sick of my church, and then how I scowled.
The members unfriendly, the sermons too long;
In fact, it seems that everything’s wrong.
I don’t like the singing; the church a disgrace
For signs of neglect are all over the place.
I’ll quit going there, and
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 17, 2006
                
                
                
                    J. Whitcomb Brougher tells this story:
A Greek philosopher asked his servant to provide the best dish possible.  The servant prepared a dish of tongue, saying: “It is the best of all dishes, because with it we may bless and communicate happiness, dispel sorrow, remove despair, cheer the
                    
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                    Contributed by David Slone on Sep 7, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I’ve heard the story of a young boy who was experiencing his first funeral.  He looked around and normally happy and jovial aunts and uncles were now crying.  Uncles usually quick with a joke and word, stare wide eyed at a casket.  He felt fear and amazing confusion.  And why not, what other
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A national Omnibus survey commissioned by spirituality.com in September 2003 focused on gratitude. The random national sample of more than 1,000 adults gives details on how grateful America feels today, and how Americans express that gratitude.
Through that survey here are some of the benefits that
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A woman and her young daughter were attending the wedding of a relative. This was the first time the little girl had ever seen a wedding ceremony. She was in awe by the pomp and beauty of everything; the music, the formal atmosphere, the decorations, the bride and groom and their attendants in fine
                    
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                    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Jul 8, 2007
                
                
                
                    A Jewish father had only one child, a little girl. He was very fond of her. She was the one the death angel would kill if the blood was not put on the door. Before going to sleep she asked her father if the blood had been sprinkled on the door posts. He said that it had been and she fell asleep.
                    
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                    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 6, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    After hearing and reading all the health warnings the media consistently blesses us with, someone wrote this tongue-in-cheek observation.
"Brace yourself.  
Somewhere, they’re plotting the scare of the week.
Air is polluted; water is too.
Fish that swim in it are not good for you.
Fresh fruits and
                    
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                    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
                
                
                
                    1990, Shortly after I graduated from college, someone sent me a copy of an article from Colorado Springs - an AP release about Coronado High School where I went to high school.  It was about a transfer student – a 17yr old girl named Storme Aerison.  She was singing soprano in the choir, and had
                    
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