Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 6, 2009
                
                
                
                    I read a story of a pastor whose son began to drift away from God in high school. The son started to hang out with the wrong crowd changing his actions and attitude. The parents, of course, were broken-hearted. They were embarrassed. But they didn’t hide this. They cried out to God with God’s
                    
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                    As a young teen, I loved to read books from the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series.  In the first couple of pages a story would be set up – for example you are going on a hike with your cousins and it begins to storm.  But by the end of page three the reader comes to a critical point in the story
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 27, 2009
                
                
                
                    So in case it has, I’d like to read the concluding paragraph from the NIV Application Commentary about this section of Scripture:
On a different note, there is strong encouragement in Jesus’ statement.  Even though at times opposition appears to be insurmountable, true Christianity will assert
                    
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                    Contributed by Charles Wood on May 14, 2009
                
                
                
                    The image from our first reading, of God writing his law on our hearts, is very consoling and meant to encourage us.
	The image of writing could call to mind one complication.  That is, if we are honest with ourselves we all could probably admit that we may not always be the best medium for God to
                    
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                    Contributed by John Perry on Apr 2, 2010
                
                
                
                    I read of a teenager who bought his girlfriend an orchid. It was the first orchid he had ever bought anyone & the first one she had ever received. There was a card attached
                    
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                    Contributed by John Perry on Apr 18, 2010
                
                
                
                    You may have read the story of Tom Smitheringale & how he revealed how close he came to perishing in an icy grave in the last few days. The explorer survived falling through ice into freezing water during his solo expedition to the North Pole, sustaining only mild hypothermia and frostbite on some
                    
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                    Contributed by Curtis Emerson on Jul 30, 2010
                
                
                
                    I was reading a blog about “who should get the credit” and I wonder if any of you have some of these same ideas.
One person wrote;
“you know this phony god of yours has it good, it gets all the credit for everything good, and man gets all the credit for everything bad ... the best of both worlds”.
                    
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                    I read a fable about a man who was browsing in a store when he made the shocking discovery that God was behind a sales counter. 
  So the man walked over and asked, "What are You selling?" 
  God replied, "What does your heart desire?" 
  The man said, "I want happiness, peace of mind, and freedom
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I READ THE MOVING STORY ENTITLED, "DAD’S GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN" BY EDNA HERSHBERGER WHICH SAID: “HIS LAST WORDS LEFT US WITH SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO. AT 4:00 A.M. THE NURSE WOKE DAD TO GIVE HIM A BREATHING TREATMENT. "MR. HERSH, DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?" "GOSHEN HOSPITAL," HE ANSWERED POLITELY
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    While reading last month about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin Germany, there is a story about a friendship that was birthed between Jesse Owens a Black man and Luz Long a German. Both men were competing in the long jump, Jesse Owens was the early pick to win the event. You see the year before he
                    
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