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                    A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE HURTS!
 
Several years ago, there was a song on Christian radio that said, "We bring a sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord." It had a happy, upbeat tune. Listening to it, I had the feeling that the singers were intrigued by the words but had not personally
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A sacrifice of praise will always cost you something. It will be a difficult thing to do. It requires trading in our pride, our anger, and most valued of all, our human logic. We will be compelled to voice our words of praise firmly and precisely, even as our logic screams that God has no idea what
                    
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                    Contributed by Akinsanya Adubi on Sep 21, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SACRIFICE OF EXCHANGE
When someone is sick and is about to die, there is a type of sacrifice that they will prepare, (sacrifice of exchange), they will put that sacrifice in a bowl and place it by the roads intersection, the first person to see that sacrifice will be the one that
                    
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                    Contributed by Greg Nance on Feb 25, 2012
                
                
                
                    SHANNON'S SACRIFICE
It was March 24, 1998 in Westside Middle School near Jonesboro, Arkansas. A total of five people, four female students and a teacher, were killed at a school shooting. Ten people, nine students and one teacher, were injured. The perpetrators of the shooting were two students,
                    
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                    Contributed by Perry Greene on Aug 29, 2012
                
                
                
                    ONLY BY SACRIFICE
During World War II, a young paratrooper, David Webster of E Company, 101st Airborne wrote his mother,
"Stop worrying about me. I joined the parachutists to fight. I intend to fight. If necessary, I shall die fighting, but don’t worry about this because no war can be won without
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
                
                
                
                    A heart of sacrifice
i. ((Lk 10:34-35) "He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE ENERGY OF PRAISE
A study was done by psychologist Dr. Henry H. Goddard, on energy levels in children.  
        He used an instrument he called the "ergograph."  How he ever got some children to stand still long enough to connect them to the machine is a mystery.  But he did, and his findings
                    
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                    Contributed by Ray Ellis on Nov 22, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SING PRAISE
We can get victory over hardships by singing praise to the Lord.
"My mouth is filled with Your praise...all day long."  Ps. 71:8 NAS
Roger Bennett, pianist and songwriter died in 2007.  Prior to his death he wrote on his website:
Our enemy stalks us exactly the way the Bible
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 27, 2007
                
                
                
                    Charles Schwab -
In 1921 the first person to make one million dollars a year, when a person making $50. A week was well off, was Charles Schwab.  He had been picked by Andrew Carnegie to become the first president of U.S. Steel Company. 
Why did Andrew Carnegie pay him so much?  Because he was a
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 9, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PRAISE AND GRATITUDE
After one of the terrible battles of the Civil War, a dying Confederate soldier asked to see the chaplain.  When the chaplain arrived, he supposed the young man would wish him to ask God for his recovery; but it was very different. 
First the soldier asked him to cut off a
                    
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