Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Nov 11, 2004
                
                
                
                    Self Love Is Ordinary
Self-love is so ordinary that Jesus used it as a reference point: Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” When I was in elementary school, the teacher sometimes solved the first problem on a sheet of homework to show us how the others were solved. Jesus used our love for
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Jul 22, 2008
                
                
                
                    JESUS'S PRESENCE IN THE ORDINARY
Dr. Dale E. Turner writing for Health Action News in July 1993 tells an interesting story of John W. Gardner, founding Chairman of Common Cause. Turner quotes Gardner as saying that it is “a rare and high privilege to help people understand the difference they can
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Left sincerely believes that ordinary Americans are imbeciles  unfortunates who are sorely in need of a keeper (big government) to bring us in out of
                    
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                    Ordinary Joe – An Unsung Hero
There are many characters in the cast of the Christmas story that have gripped the Church’s imagination but there’s one that has rarely had a place in the spotlight. Joseph.
There’s the Magi, exotic and somehow still gleaming in their silks after the long, dusty road
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 24, 2007
                
                
                
                    As followers of Christ, we are ordinary people on an important daily journey that reveals the power of
                    
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                    Ordinary people talking. And that’s how it should be. Look at our reading.
Jesus invested a lot of time in his 12 disciples. He invested even more in the four key
disciples; Peter, Andrew,James and John.
Yet it wasn’t the four who first asked to tell the people the good news of the resurection
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                    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Apr 18, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In “Let’s Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage”, Lisa Beamer reflects on the loss of her dad.  She says,
	“Slowly, I began to understand that the plans God has for us don’t just include “good things”, but the whole array of human events.  The “prospering” he talks about in the book of
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Touchton on May 10, 2004
                
                
                
                    ORDINARY PEOPLE is a book that was later made into a movie. It is set in Lake Forest, Illinois, during the 1970s. The action focuses on the Jarrett family--Calvin and Beth and their son Conrad. Before the action of the book begins, there was a second Jarrett son--Buck--who was killed in a boating
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "The news on an ordinary day [is] a strange assembly that swoops down on ones life like cousins from Oslo one has never seen before, will never see again, and
                    
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                    Contributed by Stephen Evoy on May 11, 2008
                
                
                
                    In the hands of ordinary Christians, small social groups are a big spiritual deal.  This is because "ordinary Christians" have more credibility than the ordained clergy.  A guy named Herb Miller did some great research:
*  When first-time visitors to a local church receive a "glad you came" visit
                    
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