Contributed by Ken Kersten on Jan 15, 2010
                
                
                
                    FROM THE BALCONY
A man lay sprawled across three entire seats in the movie theater. When the usher came by and noticed this, he whispered to the man, "Sorry, sir, but you're only allowed one seat." The man mumbled but didn't budge. The usher became impatient. "Sir, if you don't get up from there
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 10, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Robin Meyers, in his book Morning Sun on a White Piano, quotes theologian Ernest Campbell who summarizes the ministry of Jesus with these words: “A reforming Jew, convinced that the people had turned love into legalism, [Jesus] went about asking those people who thought they were ‘in’ (Pharisees,
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 22, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILLUSTRATION: The Hermit
Seeking to know God better, John Chrysostom became a hermit in the mountains near Antioch in A.D. 373. Although his time of isolation was cut short by illness, he learned that with God at his side, he could attend alone against anyone or anything. 
That lesson served
                    
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                    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
                
                
                
                    Jesus said, “My Father’s house is to be a House of Prayer.”  All through the Bible, we find again and again, God working through the prayers of His children.  We remember the Day Elijah …
	We remember Elisha, when he prayed that his servant’s eyes would be opened and he saw the armies of God, with
                    
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                    1)	The cheap husband who went Christmas shopping;  A wealthy man went Christmas
shopping for his wife. He was looking around the ladies perfume area of a store when 
when a sales clerk ask if she could help. He replied that he was looking for something for his wife for Christmas, so the clerk
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Miller on Mar 16, 2008
                
                
                
                    The teacher was testing the children in his Sunday school class to see if they understood the concept of getting to heaven. He asked them, "If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into Heaven?" "NO!" the children answered. "If I
                    
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                    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 24, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dance with your Father
“If I could get another chance, another walk, another dance with him. I’d play a song that would never, ever end. How I’d love, love, love To dance
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on May 8, 2008
                
                
                
                    "What claim has sin upon a dead man?  None!  Well, then, God looks upon the believer as dead - dead with Christ, and risen again; and his power to deny the working of sin consists in his
                    
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                    Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 18, 2008
                
                
                
                    We all want to be wise, we all want to know. Incidentally, the English word sophomore also comes from two Greek words: sophos means wise, and moros means foolish. In other words, a sophomore is a wise
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 25, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Did you know that...
The color in a butterfly’s wings does not come from pigment. The color is produced prism-like by light reflected by their transparent wing scales.
Stranger yet, no moth or butterfly eats solid food (though some butterflies drink nectar); some can not even take in
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When Charles Goodyear was just twenty-six years old, he had made his first fortune. He had set up the first hardware store in America that sold only domestically manufactured farm implements. Everything was going in his direction. Then suddenly, things changed. Several of his suppliers closed their
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Each days dawn is like a recurrence of the first act of the Creation  as if again a decree had gone forth: Let there be light. And as the earth whirls on its orbit, there sweeps westward a band of brightness, fringed by the half-light of
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "If you are lucky, sooner or later there will be a swirl or a double swirl where the trout strikes and misses and strikes again, and then the old, deathless thrill of the plunge of the rod and the irregular plunging, circling, cutting up stream and
                    
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                    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 24, 2008
                
                
                
                    Some say fish have a six second memory.  So, when one fish gets caught on a hook, only six seconds later, all his fish friends are ready to get hooked again.  People are like that.  They see
                    
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