Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 12, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Copper Wire illustration :
	Copper wire can be used for a lot of different purposes, you can use it for a close line, you can bend it and manipulate it around your gate to keep the cows from getting out or whatever but it has much more potential that that. Inside of that copper wire is protons and
                    
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                    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Nov 20, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LITTLE THINGS
Nearly every time we are out in public, Barbara will find a penny laying on the street or sidewalk.  Most people ignore the pennies on the street because they think they are worthless; but, Barbara
                    
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                    Contributed by K. Simms on Nov 5, 2010
                
                
                
                    IS YOUR CHURCH ON FIRE?
In a little town unknown to many, there was a small church. One night smoke and flames consumed this little church. People from all over town stood in the streets and watched the church as it burned. The local preacher drove up and noticed several people that he hadn't seen
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
                
                
                
                    Illustration: Many of us are like the little boy who told his mom he was going to grow up to be a preacher. He said, “I figure I’ll have to go to church all my
                    
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                    I’m not a SCUBA diver, but SCUBA  has always fascinated me.  When you take up SCUBA, one of the things that they will teach you is that your bubbles are always right. 
when you’re deep underwater, you’re surrounded by an aura of light and it is very difficult to tell which way is up. The water
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
                
                
                
                    PRAISING HIM WITH LIFTED HANDS
I attended a Conference in Overland Park, KS. The host pastor stood up before the opening worship service and said, he grew up in a controlled, dignified and domesticated worship service.  He said no one in that church raised their hands in praise. But then when he
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Some years ago someone sent me an e-mail entitled “Shake it off and step up.” It perfectly illustrates the concept of dealing with disappointment. A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule ‘braying’. After carefully
                    
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                    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 18, 2007
                
                
                
                    There used to be an egg farm about 5 miles from here, out on Reed Ellis Road.  From time to time, when I was growing up, we used to take one of our 2 ton trucks down there to the chicken farm and pick up a couple of loads of chicken manure to put on our pastures to help the grass grow.
	I remember
                    
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                    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 22, 2009
                
                
                
                    I’m sort of surprised about the timetable for Philip’s journey. God commands him to get up and depart about noon. It reminds me of Robbie O’ Connell, an Irish musician who lives in the U.S., when he went back to Ireland to chase down some authentic folk songs that hadn’t yet been recorded. Since
                    
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                    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 27, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A man is walking past the field of a farmer with a cow on a roap. The farmer says, "Hey mister, where ya goin with thet there cow?’
The man replies, "I’m takin it to town to sell it."
The farmer says, " You mean if it’s the Lords will you are."
The man says , "Well it’s my cow and I recon I can do
                    
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                    Contributed by Andy Anquoe on Feb 15, 2007
                
                
                
                    A 12 year old girl in rural Ethiopia was kidnaped from her family . Her captors yelled at her, beat her, and almost raped her during her 7 day ordeal. They wanted to force her into marriage by selling her to the highest bidder  Who knows what kind of situation she would have ended up in if that
                    
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                    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Apr 23, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was a man walking with his son down a country road.  On the left was a beautiful country ESTATE.  A big black LIMOUSINE pulled onto the circular DRIVEWAY.  Out of the automobile stepped a FINELY DRESSED and WELL-GROOMED gentleman, who NODDED to the man and the boy and then went into his
                    
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                    Contributed by Michael West on Mar 29, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Our religion has become ineffective in the world. We are being rejected more each day. The world wants us to take our little god and go somewhere else. Our religion has become powerless because we believe in a powerless god. Our religion is weak because our god is weak. Our faith is weak because we
                    
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                    Contributed by Jesse Bennett on Nov 9, 2008
                
                
                
                    THE GIRL AND THE LIONS
A 12-year-old girl in rural Ethiopia was kidnapped from her family. Her captors yelled at her, beat her, and almost raped her during her seven-day ordeal. They wanted to force her into marriage by selling her to the highest bidder; who knows what kind of situation she would
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Oct 11, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Pres. Teddy Roosevelt once told of a very interesting incident in his own life.  He wrote, "On the beautiful little island of Islamorada, there are several hundred homes that belong to people who come to stay for the summer.  I fell in love with that island & spent 4 summers up there."
"I had
                    
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