Contributed by Matt Stacy on Nov 18, 2010
                
                
                
                    OBJECT LESSON: SPIRIT-FILLED BOTTLES
(Will need 2 water bottles, One empty and one full)
We can be like these water bottles, here. One is full of "spirit" and one has none. (Crush empty bottle) This empty bottle with no integrity inside is easily crushed under the pressure I apply to the out
                    
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                    Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Mar 28, 2008
                
                
                
                    Some people trust in their own intuition or abilities to face life. I was recently reminded of a man who built his own floating island off the coast of Cancun, Mexico, out of empty, plastic bottles. He put the bottles in bags and tied them together, and spiraled them around, tying them together. He
                    
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                    Contributed by Tommy Ellis on Jun 2, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    If you give a street drunk a bottle of expensive alcohol, he will appreciate it the same as he would a cheap bottle of booze.  Why?  He does not know what he has.  Likewise, whoever eats and drinks the Lord’s Supper
                    
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                    Contributed by Alex Shepherd on Dec 19, 2003
                
                
                
                    "The drunkard is like the bottle he drinks out of, big stomach,skinny neck, and a little head "...from a sermon entitled "Snake Eggs, Spider
                    
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                    "Skin bottles for carrying various fluids were made by killing the chosen animal, cutting off its head and feet, skinning the carcass, and sewing up the skin, fur side out, to seal off all orifices but one (usually the neck). The skin was tanned with special care to minimize disagreeable taste. In
                    
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                    Contributed by Robbie Parsons on Feb 17, 2008
                
                
                
                    A little hobby of mine is collecting old Coca-Cola memorabilia.  One of my prized possessions is this old bottle from around 1910 to 1920.  It was made at the Charleston Bottling Works in Charleston, WV.
	Many of you will doubtlessly remember when soda came in a glass bottle like this, not in
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 13, 2010
                
                
                
                    Rome, who only 1 year old, picked up a plastic spade and began playing it, pretending it was a guitar. It has the right shape. Anything can become a guitar in his hands. He has seen guitars at Church and as he danced he made sounds like he was playing one of the upbeat worship songs. We danced and
                    
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                    I received the following story as one of those “dreaded” forwarded emails.  I think it’s a fitting way to end a Wednesday Lenten message on Obedience ----from the eyes of a child.
Story of God lives under the Bed. 
I envy Kevin. He thinks God lives under his bed. One night he was praying out loud
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 3, 2024
                
                
                
                     The Soybean Car,” a concept developed by Henry Ford -- is an example of an unrealized dream. The car was intended to run on hemp fuel.
According to Wikipedia, “The soybean car was a concept car built with agricultural plastic. The New York Times in 1941 states the car body and fenders were made
                    
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