Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 21, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Can This Be Christmas?
What's all this hectic rush and worry?
Where go these crowds who run and curry?
Why all the lights--the Christmas trees?
The jolly "fat man," tell me please!
Why, don't you know? This is the day
For parties and for fun and play;
Why this is Christmas!
So this is Christmas,
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 12, 2007
                
                
                
                    Jesus is a special delivery   from heaven a parcel of love  being delivered to your home with  your name upon it for salvation and nothing in the world  could stop the arrival of His parcel of love  -  not the world -  not Satan  - not death -  not hell  because it was signed sealed and delivered
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jun 25, 2011
                
                
                
                    EVERYONE NEEDS A SAVIOR
Billy Sunday was a famous baseball player in the early part of the last century. He was dramatically converted to Christ, and became then even more famous as an evangelist. In preparation for a city wide mission in a large American city, Billy Sunday wrote a letter to the
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Mar 27, 2007
                
                
                
                    David Prior wrote, Justice and kindness are essential qualities of the nature of God Himself. They do not come down from heaven wrapped in parcels. They are
                    
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                    Contributed by Ian Biss on Jul 2, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A Texas rancher met up with a Wisconsin dairy farmer. The two men began talking about their land and the milkman told the cattleman that he operated his business on 125 acres. The Texan scoffed at such a small parcel of land. He said, "Yankee, that ain’t nothin’. On my ranch I can get in my truck
                    
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                    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Mar 26, 2009
                
                
                
                    The following story was written by a missionary doctor who worked in Africa. "One night I had worked hard to help a mother in the labor ward; but in spite of all we could do, she died, leaving us with a tiny, premature baby and a crying two-year-old daughter.
    We would have difficulty keeping
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 19, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful and costly tombs ever built, but there is something fascinating about its beginnings. 
In 1629, when the favorite wife of Indian ruler Shah Jahan died, he ordered that a magnificent tomb be built as a memorial to her. The shah placed his wife’s casket in
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    REMEMBERING MY PURPOSE
The Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful and costly tombs ever built, but there is something fascinating about its beginnings. 
In 1629, when the favorite wife of Indian ruler Shah Jahan died, he ordered that a magnificent tomb be built as a memorial to her. The shah
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 27, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Two theological students were walking along a street in the Whitechapel district of London, a section where old and used clothing is sold. "What a fitting illustration all this makes!" said one of the students as he pointed to a suit of clothes hanging on a rack by a window. A sign on it read:
                    
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                    An old woman dearly loved her Lord. Often her cup of joy overflowed.  A favourite expression of hers was, "Praise the Lord!" Often, in God’s house, when the minister preached, she would say, "Praise the Lord!" Sometimes, however, the minister was disturbed by this, and he would lose his line of
                    
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                    Contributed by Ted Sutherland on Nov 18, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A little over a century ago, when pirates roamed over the seas between the southern states and the Spanish main, the brig “Nancy” was pursued by the British warship “Sparrow.”  She was suspected of being engaged in illicit trade and piracy, but when captured, not a scrap of incriminating evidence
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In 1629, when the favorite wife of Indian ruler Shah Jahan died, he ordered that a magnificent tomb be built as a memorial to her. The shah placed his wife’s casket in the middle of a parcel of land, and construction of the temple literally began around it. 
But several years into the venture, the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    REMEMBER THE MISSION
In 1629, when the favorite wife of Indian ruler Shah Jahan died, he ordered that a magnificent tomb be built as a memorial to her. The shah placed his wife's casket in the middle of a parcel of land, and construction of the temple literally began around it. But several years
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 21, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dr. Helen Roseveare, missionary to Zaire (formerly the Belgian Congo), told the following story: A mother at our mission station died after giving birth to a premature baby.  We tried to improvise an incubator to keep the infant alive, but the only hot water bottle we had was beyond repair.  So
                    
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                    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Mar 28, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ON THE SAME PAGE
The man came in and sat down. I'd say he was in his mid-thirties; he looked a bit rough around the edges and hadn't shaved for a few days. We introduced ourselves and the question was asked, "How are you surviving?"
"Well I can't get the benefit right now, so I'm doing a few
                    
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                    THE PINK BUNNY SUIT
"Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I keep thy word."  
There's a memorable scene in A Christmas Story, in which Ralphie, who longs for a BB gun for Christmas, opens a parcel from his dotty maiden aunt.  The aunt makes clothing for Christmas presents, and is under
                    
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                    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 26, 2009
                
                
                
                    Governor William Bradford’s account of the story of Plymouth Plantation discusses how the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth and their leaders initially planned to have everyone own and share everything.  They planned for the people to work for the common good, and believed that this would produce
                    
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