Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Sep 5, 2011
                
                
                
                    PRETEND-WORSHIP
Pretend-worship is the picture of a little boy looking up at his dad as a bird lies dead at his feet. His open, palms-up hands are accompanied with the caption at the bottom of the picture: "It wasn't me daddy". But, as we're
                    
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                    Contributed by Michael Walther on May 24, 2011
                
                
                
                    PRETENDER DR. NICK
What does it take to be turned around if you are a pretender?  Dr. Nick Yphantides can help us.  Although he was a true Christian he was living part of his life in a purely hypocritical manner.  
Dr. Nick’s specialty was preventative medicine.  Every day he was trying to help
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Simms on May 28, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “True forgivers do not pretend they don’t suffer.  They do not
pretend the wrong does not matter much.  The 1st stage of
healing is release.  You will know that forgiveness has begun
when you
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 14, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Let’s pretend that somewhere, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was a planet of crooked people.  They didn’t differ much from one another as they were all crooked in the same way.  What we call their left arm was bent in a peculiar way that was very unlike what we’d call their right
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Dolan on Jan 5, 2008
                
                
                
                    GOODNESS: Pretend you were to go out on the streets today and ask people a question.  The question is this: “What is good?”  On the face, we live in corrupted world; in which things are termed O.K. … So what is ‘good’?  In Matthew 19 a man addressed Jesus and said, “Good Teacher, what good thing
                    
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                    Contributed by Jan Spencer on Mar 19, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    What is a Grandmother? By a Third Grader
	A grandmother is a lady who has no children of her own.  She likes other people’s little girls and boys.  A grandfather is a man grandmother.  He goes for walks with boys, and they talk about fishing and stuff like that.
	Grandmothers don’t have to do
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 8, 2016
                
                
                
                    Mike Mack- When I was about 10 years old, I made friends with two brothers in my neighborhood, Tim and Jeff Ward.  Perhaps because I did not have a brother living at home, or just for fun, I told them I had a twin brother named Mark.  We would be playing Wiffle ball, and I’d go home, change
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    C.S. Lewis said, “The gospel means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us. As a sinner who has been
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 5, 2025
                
                
                
                    [185].  POEM MESSAGE – MOUTHS THAT SHAM REJOICING
When I was young we generally could trust what people said to us.  There was a great deal of honesty back then (1950s) but that has evaporated.  People tell us barefaced lies and that is now the way of the world.  That makes the Christian life
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Feb 18, 2009
                
                
                
                    Daniel still prayed to God openly because Daniel’s love for God was more important to him than pretending he didn’t care about God.  Daniel thought it was better to die than to pretend. Daniel
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by
                    
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