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                    [Pastor Clendennen speaking:]
For many years, in the church I pastored, we had an all-night prayer meeting the last Friday night of every month.  One such Friday night, out of four-hundred members, there were forty-one of us present.  
As I was praying, I heard this Word from the Lord: 
“You are
                    
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                    I heard a story about the day that Jesus returned to Heaven.  The Angel Gabriel asked Jesus to explain what had happened down there on earth.
He asked, “Did they make you King?”              Jesus answered, “No.”
“Did they make you prince?”                            “No.” 
“Did they worship you?”
                    
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                    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Nov 21, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    We need to return to returning thanks.
An old man showed up at the back door of the house some college students were renting.  Opening the door a few inches, the students saw that the old man’s eyes were glassy and his furrowed face glistened with silver stubble.  He clutched a wicker basket
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 3, 2009
                
                
                
                    THE DIRT RETURNS
Julie Ackerman recalls asking, "How did everything get so dirty so fast?" I grumbled as I dusted the glass tabletop. "I had the whole house clean a month ago."
"Cleaning is a way of life, not an event," my husband responded.
I know he’s right, but I hate to admit it. I want to
                    
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                    Illustration: RETURN TO THE CABIN
 A flight attendant spent a week’s vacation in the Rockies.  She was captivated by the mountain peaks, the clear blue skies, and the beautiful forest.  She also was charmed by a very eligible bachelor who owned and operated a cattle ranch and lived in a log cabin.
                    
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                    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Nov 21, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Returning Thanks is a LEARNED Trait.
We are not born grateful creatures.  Take a baby for just a little while and you’ll probably hold in your arms what could be best described as a schizophrenic!  One minute cooing, the next crying; one minute silent, the next screaming; one minute friendly
                    
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                    Contributed by Mack Armstrong on Jul 15, 2007
                
                
                
                    His Return
	He was a young book peddler. Back before the days of numerous public libraries, book stores, the Internet and various other places from where one could buy or borrow a book, the book peddlers made their living by “peddling books.”
	These men would begin their livelihood by acquiring
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
                
                
                
                    THE BIRD'S RETURN
The great Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (Ro-ald Amun-son) was the first to discover the magnetic meridian of the North Pole and the first to discover the South Pole. On one of his trips, Amundsen (Amun-son), took a homing pigeon with him. When he had finally reached the top
                    
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                    Tim (The Rock) Raines returns to the Montreal Expos at age 41 Apr. 13, 2001. 
From THESTAR.COM
MONTREAL (CP) - Tim Raines wasn’t prepared for the deafening cheers from the usually quiet crowd when he stepped to the plate in his first game back in Montreal. 
For Raines, it was like being in the
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 7, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    After an evening out, some parents returned home to their children, whom they had left with the  baby sitter.   They were pleasantly surprised to find the kids fast asleep.   When the sitter had been paid—just as she was walking out the door—she communicated this detail:  "Oops—almost forgot to
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE BIG RETURN ON FAITHFULNESS
It was a stormy night in Birmingham, England, and Hudson Taylor was to speak at a meeting at the Severn Street schoolroom. His hostess assured him that nobody would attend on such a stormy night, but Taylor insisted on going. "I must go even if there is no one but
                    
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                    Christians’ Point of No Return
If you were inside the cockpit of a departing airplane, just as it took off from the runway you would hear the copilot or captain call out, "V1." This phrase represents the "point of no return."
As the airplane accelerates toward the end of the runway, the pilot must
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 17, 2009
                
                
                
                    Christ’s return is a done deal!  
	In the May 1984 National Geographic color photos and drawings showed the swift and terrible destruction that wiped out the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79.  The explosion of Mount Vesuvius was so sudden; the residents were killed while in their
                    
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