Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Dec 16, 2009
                
                
                
                    THE GOOD OUTCAST-LONGHAIR-BIKER
Now it came to pass that a certain man was traveling Lonesome Street, a lonely and dark road from Tom's Tavern to Bill's Bar. After many visits to this bar, the consumption of liquor got a hold of him, stripped him of all his goods and left him destitute and dying
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard White on Oct 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Her name was Susan, she was an outcast. When I met her at the ER she had attempted suicide twice in the past 24 hrs.  The doctor was doing his interview of her while I sat and watched. She was nervous, twitching and fidgeting as she answered his questions. While this was going on I was praying. My
                    
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                    Leonard Sweet writes, “Jesus’ world seemed over peopled with outcasts. Jesus’ table fellowship with real-life low-life’s outraged the pious among the people of his day,..An authentic biblical table culture will similarly outrage the pious of our day, especially when the church starts imitating
                    
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                    We might shake our heads at such blatant hypocrisy, but the truth is most people fail to live up to their own Words.  One prime example of this might be Karl Marx who wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848.  Marx’ had --- and still has --- millions of followers.  His Philosophy has shaped (and some
                    
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                    Contributed by Selvan John on Apr 2, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Truth – have you found it…
Truth is contemplated, says Plato
Truth is reasoned, says Aristotle
Truth is variable, says the Contextualists
Truth is real, says the Realist
Truth could be real, says the Skeptic
Truth is inevitable, says the Investigator
Truth is subconscious, says Freud
Truth is
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 15, 2008
                
                
                
                    What is Christmas is really about? I would say it is not about simply being filled with joy and singing and family and relationships as the Whos seem to think Christmas is about. In fact Christmas is about a person: Jesus. It is about the one who was born as an outcast. His mother and father
                    
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                    "The man had a choice to be healed or not. There had to be a 'want to' in his will. He could have decided to stay unhealed forever, and there could have been some reasons to do so. He may have wanted to remain unhealed so he could just lie around, or he may have grown accustomed to begging and knew
                    
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                    ON SHEPHERDS
"Let me tell you a bit about shepherds. They were the last people you’d expect God to take notice of. First of all, they were religious outcasts. According to Jewish religious law, these men were unclean. Their line of work prevented them from participating in the feasts and holy days
                    
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                    Story: Some years ago, I attended called a conference called “Spring Harvest at Work” in Sheffield (in November 1998).  
And what was memorable for me was that the conference organisers sprang a surprise interviewee on us – Jim Bakker- a pariah in the Evangelical community. 
Indeed he was such an
                    
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                    Don’t expect the Kingdom of this World to respect the Kingdom of God.  Far from it, citizens of God’s Kingdom have always been --- and will always be criticized and misunderstood and (as we see in this case) even DEMONIZED.  
I think of a man like Jerry Falwell --- who died recently.  He was most
                    
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                    Contributed by Patrick Malone on Mar 20, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I’m sure many of you will know the story of Victor Hugo’s epic tale LES MISERABLES. Well let me remind you this morning of the opening picture. Jean Valjean, our hero, is released on parole from 19 years of hard labour on a chain gang? His crime, he was caught trying to steal a loaf of bread. And
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Feb 21, 2010
                
                
                
                    I went to a conference in Brisbane once in a large Church lead by Pastor Reg Kliminiok. After he spoke, I went to him to thank him for his message. I finally got my opportunity after others had finished speaking with him. He took an interest in me and asked me about my Church.
Halfway through the
                    
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                    Contributed by David Moore on Aug 29, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The White Stone
The overcomers at Pergamos were given a white stone, and in the stone a new name written.The people of Pergamos were familiar with a number of customs involving the use of a white stone. They used a voters urn in which if you approved of a candidate you placed a white stone bearing
                    
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                    Contributed by James Dunn on Feb 11, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dr. Paul W. Brand, the noted leprosy expert who was chief of the rehabilitation branch of the Leprosarium in Carville, Lousiana, had a frightening experience one night when he thought he had contracted leprosy. Dr. Brand arrived in London one night after an exhausting transatlantic ocean trip and
                    
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