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                    One of the greatest spokesmen for the cause of Christ today is Chuck Swindoll, host of the national radio broadcast "Insight for Living," for many years a pastor and now president of Dallas Theological Seminary. Howard Hendricks, who was one of Chuck’s teachers while he was in seminary, remembers
                    
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                    In a moment of teenage carelessness, a 16-year- old girl wrecked her mother’s car. She was uninjured, so she called home to tell her parents, fully expecting an angry reaction. Instead, her father asked only about her physical and emotional condition. When he arrived at the accident scene, he
                    
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                    Contributed by Kory Wilcoxson on Jan 12, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There’s a Far Side cartoon that shows a bum sitting in a dirty alley, and there’s a giant bug next to him. And the bug is saying, “There I was, vice president, stock options, corner office, Mercedes, then one day someone comes in and says, “Wait a minute! He’s nothing but a giant cockroach!”
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                    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
                
                
                
                    In a 1998 USA Weekend exclusive survey of more than a quarter million teens -- one of the most extensive ever -- teens responded honestly about tackling their identity crisis.  
	An unprecedented 272,400 students wrote in and confessed their short-comings and exposed their passion to improve
                    
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                    POEM ON RISK
This is a poem on risk from a classroom wall:
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out for another is to risk involvement
To expose feelings is to risk exposing, your true self
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Feb 25, 2010
                
                
                
                    HE LEFT IT ALL
A famous millionaire died of cancer. For weeks he suffered intolerable agony. Although surrounded by every luxury and receiving every possible care, he died as wretchedly as a pauper. There was the usual publicity, flowers, telegrams, an expensive bronze casket and a towering
                    
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                    Contributed by Roger Miller on Apr 27, 2010
                
                
                
                    NFL Players are Some of the strongest most disciplined athletes in the world-and exactly who you would 
want to walk with you down a dark alley!  But look at Michael Vick and Big Ben and you know for a fact 
they are weaklings against sin!  They are a worthless savior!  It is a reminder  that all
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Ball on May 24, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    VICTOR, NOT THE VICTIM
I used to work for the Post Office and when I became serious about the Lord, it must have really shown in my actions and words, because people all of a sudden began making fun of me and giving me snide comments.
At times it was difficult, but I remained steadfast in my
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 12, 2007
                
                
                
                    Beware of pride. I would put it first in the list of the seven deadly sins. It produces independence, rebellion and self-will. It leads to all the other sins. It makes on think, as Lucifer did, that he is more important than God. 
	Sometime when you’re feeling important,
	Sometimes when your ego’s
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 9, 2007
                
                
                
                    “He Left It All”
A famous millionaire died of cancer.  For weeks he suffered intolerable agony.  Although surrounded by every luxury and receiving every possible care, he died as wretchedly as a pauper.  There was the usual publicity, flowers, telegrams, an expensive bronze casket and a towering
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2007
                
                
                
                    Maybe we need to set up appropriate boundaries especially when people transgress our boundaries. This is not an act of condemnation but of self-preservation so that we can live out the love of Christ. When I worked at Pizza Hut as a shift manager, I got a call from a customer where we made a
                    
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                    Contributed by Tom Shepard on Oct 22, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Soren Kierkagaard said, “I went into church and sat on the velvet pew. I watched as the sun came shining through the stained glass windows. The minister dressed in a velvet robe opened the golden gilded Bible, marked it with a silk bookmark and said, ‘If any man will be my disciple, said Jesus, let
                    
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                    Contributed by Jay Winters on Dec 24, 2007
                
                
                
                    The last written words of Martin Luther were, “It is true, we are beggars all.” If you spend any time at all with beggars, you realize that one thing they are not plagued with is modesty. They simply cannot afford to be modest.
On a trip to Denver, my family and I witnessed a panhandler across the
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 20, 2008
                
                
                
                    "Some critics have scorned the concept of a Jubilee year as being impossible to implement, however archaeologists have found records of deeds from the late biblical period containing references to it being in operation.
The first Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rav Kook, taught that the basis for the
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Jensen on Jun 12, 2008
                
                
                
                    In a popular "Saturday Night Live" comedy skit, one of the characters, Stuart Smalley, attempted to console people as they struggled with their issues and dilemmas. In one of the more popular skits, he attempted to counsel Michael Jordan, the famous basketball player, with a non-existent struggle
                    
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