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                    Sitting together at the supper table, my 5 year old daughter Rachel asked if she could ask the blessing. "Sure," I said.  Obviously hungry, she very concisely prayed, "Dear Jesus, thank you for the food. Amen."  My wife and I, and our two older children, were surprised because Rachel was famous for
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 10, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    How many of you have heard of the tooth fairy? (The question met with a little laughter as everyone raised their hands). I read a story not so long ago about a woman whose 2nd grader had collected a fair amount of money from the "tooth fairy." Every time her daughter Rachel lost a tooth, they’d put
                    
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                    Contributed by Tony Miano on Dec 8, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “On September 6, 1995, Cal Ripken, Jr., broke the baseball record that many believed would never be broken: Lou Gehrig’s iron-man feat of playing in 2,131 consecutive games.  Ripken gives much of the credit for his accomplishments to the example and teaching of his father Cal Ripken, Sr., who
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 27, 2010
                
                
                
                    LEAVING HOME WITHOUT YOUR KIDS
When we left to Pastor a Church in the Whitsundays we left our children, Ben and Rachel, behind in Sydney. Rachel was still in her late teens, but both of them were already involved in Hillsong Church and did not want to leave. We remember the pain of driving off
                    
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                    Contributed by Greg Nance on Dec 20, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Why did Jesus come to us as a baby?  To fulfill prophecy? To be one with us, one of us, one we could know and understand, one we could see and believe in, one who takes away our sins through his own body and blood?  All this and much more!
Let me share an insight from Brisa, my three year old
                    
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                    Contributed by Ken Pell on Dec 11, 2011
                
                
                
                    GIFT GIVING SHOULD BE PERSONAL AND RELATIONAL
Have you ever seen the episode of "Friends" where Joey and Chandler wait too long to buy Christmas gifts? They end up having to buy gifts from a gas station.
They give Rachael wiper blades and an air freshener. When Rachel
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 29, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Last Tuesday, I went to listen to Dana Scott, sister of Rachel Scott, who was one of the students killed at Columbine High School.  
And one of the points of Miss Scott’s message was that we need to be more compassionate toward those who are not like us, such as the social rejects, or physically
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 15, 2020
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One woman writes: Our fourth grader celebrated his birthday on crutches, so he couldn’t carry the cupcakes into school without help. I asked our sixth-grader, Noah, to help his brother carry them in. I could,” he said, but 
I’d prefer not to. ”Spotting a teaching moment, my husband asked Noah, What
                    
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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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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 21, 2009
                
                
                
                    When Julie gave birth to our son Ben, and then to Rachel two years later, I was overjoyed. I held them up to God soon after birth and praised God for the privilege of raising them. I realized even then that they belonged to Him, and I needed His help to be a parent. I drove home in the car honking
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Haines on Jan 20, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Nate Saint and fellow missionaries Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Pete Fleming, and Roger Youderian had set up camp on a little sandbar in hopes of making contact with the primitive Aucas, known for their fierce infighting and hatred of outsiders. The five missionaries had a deep burden to share the
                    
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