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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 Paul Wallace on Aug 6, 2007
                
                
                
                    The Cincinnati Reds rookie center fielder Josh Hamilton shared his story in ESPN the magazine.  How that drug addiction nearly destroyed his life. He was in rehab 8 times.  When he quit using his dreams returned, but they were often dark and haunting and stayed with him long after he awoke.  
                    
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                    THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
Bill Keane’s comic strip, Family Circus, has communicated a beautiful truth about Christmas.  As the children were setting up their nativity set, little Dolly held up the baby Jesus and declared, “Here’s the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    BEST KIND OF HOME
D. A. Carson had this thought: "The worst kind of home to be brought up in is the one with many pretensions and low performance, the best kind of home to be brought up in is the one with few pretensions and high
                    
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                    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 23, 2009
                
                
                
                    Saturday Night Live had a skit with Hans and Frans, dressed in oversized stuffed sweatshirts to look like body builders with larger muscles.  They would say (with a German accent), "We want to pump you up!" Some Christians live that
                    
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                    Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 21, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A little boy was heard talking to himself as he walked across the backyard, baseball cap in place, ball and bat in his hands. "I am the greatest hitter in the world," he said. He threw the ball up, swung and missed. "Strike one," he said. But again, he told himself, "I am the greatest hitter ever."
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 8, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Living together before marriage is nothing more than “playing house.” It’s being shown that living together is not best. Charles Colson sites the National Survey of Families & Households. In that survey they came up with some startling data. It found that almost half of all couples who cohabit
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeremy  Houck on Feb 19, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was a young man who was doing everything possible to move up in his company. Over the past 3 weeks he had built us 52 hours of overtime working on a new project. One night he slipped in at 12:30 and quietly crawled into bed next to his new bride. Upon feeling the movement of the bed his wife
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Francis on Jun 23, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Their prayers were answered, the room shock for starters that would liven up most prayer meetings! Prayer will open the door...THEY WERE ASTONISHED. ACTS 12:16Peter had been arrested and was locked up in jail for the next few days before being executed. Sixteen soldiers were assigned to guard him.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sherry Proskine on Jul 23, 2007
                
                
                
                    Mama eagles are caring loving creatures.  Somewhere along the line the mama eagle decides it’s time the baby eagles learn to fly.  She takes the little eagle out of the next and flies up as high as she can go.  At this point, she drops the fledgling, and he falls fast.  The fledgling has never
                    
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                    A little boy was heard talking to himself as he walked across the backyard, baseball cap in place, ball and bat in his hands. "I am the greatest hitter in the world," he said. He threw the ball up, swung and missed. "Strike one," he said. But again, he told himself, "I am the greatest hitter ever."
                    
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                    Contributed by Brent Williams on Jun 1, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Bear and the Atheist
	An atheist was walking through the woods looking at the beautiful trees and flower that had just bloomed.  Because he was an atheist he couldn’t thank anyone for the beautiful landscape that he was witnessing.  As he was gazing at the sky he saw a bear running toward him,
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 1, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Bob Munford tells of a certain Italian harbor that can be reached only by sailing up a narrow channel between dangerous rocks and shoals. Over the years, many ships have wrecked, and navigation is hazardous. To guide the ships safely into port, three lights have been mounted in the harbor on three
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 10, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Let me close off with a baptism I was able to witness in Lexington.  A man after the service was baptized,  he was in a wheel chair, he had MS.  Before he was baptized into Christ, he shared this story.   He said that he was so pumped about being baptized that he woke up at 4 in the morning.   And
                    
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