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}
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                    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jul 28, 2006
                
                
                
                    Raquel Welch was one of Hollywood’s most famous beauties.  She said:
I’d acquired everything I wanted yet I was totally miserable.  I thought it peculiar that I’d obtained everything I wanted as a child: wealth, fame, accomplishment in my career.  I had beautiful children, a lifestyle that seemed
                    
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                    Contributed by Shane Hart on Aug 10, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Finding one of her students making faces at others on the playground, Mrs. Smith stopped to gently reprove the child.  Smiling sweetly, the Sunday School teacher said, "Bobby, when I was a child, I was told if that I made ugly faces, it would freeze and I would stay
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The British busted up of a terrorist plot - one that was within days of blowing up as many as 10 U.S. airliners somewhere over the Atlantic - demonstrates once again that we have two enemies in the War on Terror.  These enemies are the terrorists themselves and our own complacency.
It’s almost
                    
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                    Contributed by David Ward on Aug 26, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One Sunday evening, William Booth was walking in London with his son, Bramwell, who was then 12 or 13 years old. The father surprised the son by taking him to a tavern! The place was crowded with men and women. Some of them were drunk. Some of them were loud. And the air was filled with the smell
                    
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                    Contributed by Daniel Harman on Aug 28, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One day a man holidaying in the Bahamas noticed a big crowd gathered at the end of the pier. As he got closer he observed someone preparing for a solo journey around the world in a tiny homemade boat. Without exception everybody was telling him all the things that could go wrong. Suddenly the man
                    
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                    Contributed by Don Jones on Sep 5, 2006
                
                
                
                    •	One of every eight Americans has a significant problem with alcohol or drugs, with 40 percent of the group having a "dual diagnosis," or concurrent mental/nervous disorder;
•	Approximately 27 million Americans either use illicit drugs regularly or are "heavy drinkers." Of these almost 16 million
                    
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                    One man related that after the death of his oldest child, he was standing in an airport waiting for his flight.  He noticed a little blonde girl, ten years old or so, and she was looking at some dolls in one of the mall areas.  She had an elderly man with her and she said, “Granddaddy, loan me the
                    
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                    	We had a friend one time, a lovely and hospitable woman, who would often have us over for dinner. And she was a great cook. But I couldn’t enjoy her desserts, especially her cakes. She always made them without salt. I don’t exactly know what salt does in a cake recipe, but I know that, when it’s
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Sep 16, 2006
                
                
                
                    Rick Warren simply defines a servant as one “always on the lookout for ways to help others.” He continues with the definition. “Real servants maintain a low profile. Servants don’t promote or call attention to themselves. Instead of acting to impress and dressing for success, they “put on the apron
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 17, 2006
                
                
                
                    Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, a mother pulled into here driveway and stopped to check the mailbox. But when she returned to the car, she found Kimberley had pushed the locks down on both doors and the mother had left her keys in the
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
                
                
                
                    A Note written by one of the miners who died in the West Virginia mining accident was made public. ‘Tell all I’ll see them on the other side," family members say one scrawled note, found with the body of 51-year-old mine foreman
                    
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                    Contributed by David Gant on Oct 22, 2006
                
                
                
                    One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.
She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white,
                    
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                    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 22, 2006
                
                
                
                    A woman was one day walking along a riverbank with her little boy. Suddenly, the child slipped into the river. The mother screamed in terror. She couldn’t swim, and was in the late stages of another pregnancy. Somebody finally heard her screaming and rushed down and into the river. The rescue
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 4, 2006
                
                
                
                    Crocodile Hunter ILLUS. ( one thing to fight with something another to kill it)
	In the news the other day it was reported that the world famous Australian Crocodile Hunter had been killed by a sting ray, really by accident. 
	I loved to watch the Croc Hunter on the animal planet and other
                    
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