Contributed by Mark Hensley on Oct 18, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I read this week of some fears that are apart of many peoples lives…maybe even your own! Peladophobia: fear of baldness and bald people. Aerophobia: fear of drafts. Porphyrophobia: fear of the color purple. Chaetophobia: fear of hairy people. Levophobia: fear of objects on the left side of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "I recently read a moving story that David Jeremiah wrote about the founder of World Vision, the international Christian relief agency.  Bob Pierce had advanced leukemia, but he went to visit a colleague in Indonesia before he died.  As they were walking through a small village, they came upon a
                    
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                    Contributed by David  Yarbrough on Jul 23, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A while back I was reading about an expert on the subject of time management. One day this expert was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration I’m sure those students will never forget. After I share it with you, you’ll never forget it either. As
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Oct 10, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILL.  Let me read a part of the list that several housewives compiled.  They wrote that they were especially thankful:
      "For automatic dishwashers because they make it possible for us to get out of the kitchen before the family comes back in for their after-dinner snacks.
      "For husbands
                    
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                    Contributed by Terry Rolen on Dec 11, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I read the story this week, of a woman who was shamed and brought closer to God by someone the world would over look.
“We were the only family with children in the restaurant. I sat Erik in a high chair and noticed everyone was quietly eating and talking.  Suddenly, Erik squealed with glee and
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Perhaps you read the email that made the rounds the week of Sept of 11th. It was called “What a Difference a Day Makes."  It is particularly appropriate during our national holiday of Thanksgiving:
On Monday, we e-mailed jokes.
On Tuesday, we did not.
On Monday, we were fussing about praying in
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I remember reading a Peanuts cartoon strip in which Lucy comes up to her brother Charlie Brown and does something that is very unusual for her. She says--I love you. But Charlie Brown keeps responding by saying: no you don’t. And each time Lucy answers a little louder: yes I do, I really love you.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2002
                
                
                
                    I read a statement by William Lyon Phelps that sums it up: “If happiness were based on ease and freedom from worry, the happiest
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Thompson on Jun 6, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Last week I read in the advice column in the paper about a couple who was celebrating 50 years of marriage. The husband wrote that someone commented, ¡§Ken, 50 years is a long time.¡¨ He immediately responded: ¡§Not nearly as long as it would have been without her.¡¨ I couldn¡¦t get the man¡¦s
                    
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                    Just this week I read of the story of a Danish noblewoman, namely Baroness Blixen whose character was made known in the movie Out Of Africa. She lived in Kenya as the owner of a large Coffee plantation. There was a tribe known as the Kikuyu tribe that Blixen had grown to love. Some of the Kikuyu
                    
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                    	Sooner or later everyone reads or hears about Cervantes’ story of Don Quixote.  Cervantes is thrown in prison in Seville.  Finding himself in the middle of a band of cutthroats he tries to divert them by telling them his story of Don Quixote, the Man of La Mancha.  In the story, Quixote pictures
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Durbin on Feb 16, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I’ve read that Michelangelo, the great sculptor and painter, was pushing a heavy rock
up a small incline to his work area so that he could do some sculpting. A neighbor
watched him for over an hour as he worked to get this rock in place. Finally he asked,
"Michelangelo, why do you labor so
                    
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