Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jul 24, 2006
                
                
                
                    Being a Father continues to teach me about patience. It is an ongoing lesson. I can remember thinking, “When will he start walking? When will he talk? When will she say my name? When will he learn some manners? When will he learn to be polite?” As we together develop and grow in our love for God
                    
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                    Contributed by Gary Landsberg on Dec 16, 2006
                
                
                
                    The Word of God  changes the unlovely, and makes them 	lovely.  I had a friend in Africa who was a missionary.  He was 	over there eking out a living and preaching the Good News to all he could.  He had 	spent time in the State penitentiary, but was changed by the Word 	of God.  You see, they were
                    
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                    Contributed by Greg Buchner on Oct 4, 2004
                
                
                
                    Closing Blessing
You are a child of creation, a reflection of God, 
No one can steal your beauty or reduce your worth, 
Unless you let them…don’t let them!
You are a miracle of God’s love…
Never look at yourself and see anything less!
Your life is not a random stroke of chance,
You are part of a
                    
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                    Tiffany shared a story with me at Christmas. The Starbucks she works in at Normal, Illinois last Christmas (2006) witnessed something amazing. A person in the drive thru lane one morning paid for the person behind them. It was a random act of kindness. But the amazing thing was the next person did
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was a man who was going skydiving for the very first time. He had taken all the lessons and now it was time for his first solo jump. He leaps out of the plane but he panicked and couldn’t remember how to open his parachute. As he was falling rapidly to the earth he suddenly met another guy
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Shafit on Aug 4, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A Sunday school teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible: Psalm 23. She gave the youngsters a month to learn the chapter. Little Rick was excited about the task, but he just couldn’t remember the Psalm. After much practice, he could barely get
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
                
                
                
                    I love bumper sticker theology. It may not always be the most sound theological statements, but they generally at least have the ability to make you think. The one in particular that I am thinking about said, "God is my Co-pilot." Do you remember the sticker? It took a great deal of heat. Perhaps
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 25, 2008
                
                
                
                    It’s frustrating because we often don’t know what to do. It’s almost like the rule are constantly changing. Anybody remember the comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes? It was about a kid and how in his imagination his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, comes to life and they have great fun together. One of their
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 8, 2008
                
                
                
                    Make It So
As a child, I remember when the original Star Trek program was introduced.  Although we had a black and white television, the word was that those with color TV's could see that Mr. Spock was greenish.
Marylu and I watched Star Trek, the Next Generation, but none of the other spin offs
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Mar 3, 2009
                
                
                
                    Re: Heb 10:20
The word “new” in vs 20 is, in the original language, “freshly slain”.  In other words, God sees the shed blood of His Son, the perfect sacrifice, as fresh always.  It is as though JUST NOW, Jesus died for us.  It is as though JUST NOW He bore the stripes on His back and the thorns on
                    
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                    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 23, 2009
                
                
                
                    FAITH: REASON AT REST
The late Manley Beasley defined faith as a "reason at rest with God." To me, that's powerful, but it hits me even harder when I remember that he went on to say, "Faith is dependency upon God, and this God-dependency only begins when self-dependency ends." And what do we see
                    
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                    Contributed by Clarence Clough on Sep 23, 2011
                
                
                
                    BETTER AND WISER JUDGE
Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray once informed a man who had appeared before him in a lower court and had escaped conviction on a technicality: "I know that you are guilty and you know it, and I wish you to remember that one day you will stand before a better and wiser
                    
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                    Contributed by Edward Frey on Aug 8, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Those of you who are sports fans probably remember the opening monologue to the TV sports broadcast, “Wide, Wide, World of Sports.”  The opening shots depicted athletes from all kinds of sports.  As the footage rolled on, so came those immortal words: “The thrill of victory and the agony of
                    
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                    Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	The young preacher was shocked to hear the well-known evangelist utter the words; “Yes, I have spent some of the happiest moments of my life in the arms of another man’s wife.” Then, following a pause, the evangelist added, “That woman was my mother.” A few weeks later as the young pastor was
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Frailey on Nov 10, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILLUSTRATION:  If only Interest Rates were so good.
Before you whip out that plastic, remember, most people don’t handle these little debt detonators very well. The fact is, nearly 75 percent of Americans who use credit cards make only the minimum payment each month. At that rate (minimum
                    
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