Contributed by Jim Heckman on Sep 17, 2008
                
                
                
                    Top Ten Reasons Hurricane Season Is Like Christmas
10: Decorating the house (with plywood).
9: Dragging out boxes that haven’t been used since last season.
8: Last minute shopping in crowded stores.
7: Regular TV shows pre-empted for ’Specials’.
6: Family coming to stay with you.
5: Family and
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Heckman on Sep 17, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Top Ten Reasons Hurricane Season Is Like Christmas
10: Decorating the house (with plywood).
9: Dragging out boxes that haven't been used since last season.
8: Last minute shopping in crowded stores.
7: Regular TV shows pre-empted for 'Specials'.
6: Family coming to stay with you.
5: Family and
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Smith on Dec 4, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILL:  Christmas Season
Listen to this parody of the Christmas season that I read this past week:
"And there were in the same country children keeping watch over there stockings by the fireplace. And lo! And was said unto them `Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy that is for
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jul 11, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Robert Russell tells this story:
There is a huge rivalry in college basketball between the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky. 
The story is told that at one of the games between the two schools, an elderly woman was sitting alone with an empty seat next to her. 
Someone
                    
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                    Contributed by Erik Hinchey on Apr 28, 2005
                
                
                
                    The seasons are changing, the dogwoods are beginning to bloom, and the grass is growing and is most likely in desperate need of a trim. There is Life springing up all around us.
The earth is slowly waking up from it’s three month slumber, with a stretching yawn the warmth of the sun is felt again,
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 19, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SOIL AND SPIRITUAL SEASONS
Jesus says these people resemble the soil next to the path which in Palestine could look like decent soil but only an inch deep. Because the soil has settled there maybe blown by the wind or pushed there by the run off from the rain, it can be very fertile. 
People are
                    
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                    88 REASONS 
  
     You might remember a man by the name of Edgar Whisenant. He was
a NASA engineer who used his mathematical skills to set a date for the return of Jesus. He wrote a book called, "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Take Place in 1988" The book caused a real buzz in the Christian
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 8, 2007
                
                
                
                    Illustration: Reverse Reasoning
Often when couples meet for premarital counselling, they are entranced in a rosy fog of optimism. Blinded to the shortcomings, each sees only the other’s good points. But as the excitement of the new marriage wears off, they often drift to the opposite extreme and
                    
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