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                    General Douglas MacArthur wrote:  People grow old by deserting their ideas.  Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest, wrinkles the soul.  You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 29, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	C. S. Lewis, in The Voyage of the Dawntreader, part of The Chronicles of Narnia series, tells the story of Eustace, a boy who happens upon a hidden treasure which is guarded by a dragon.  He has become alienated from his friends and their values by his own churlishness, and when he finds the
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 6, 2012
                
                
                
                    There are 2 ways of handling pressure:
One is illustrated by a bathysphere, the miniature submarine used to explore the ocean in places so deep that the water pressure would crush a conventional submarine like an aluminum can. Bathyspheres compensate with plate steel several inches thick, which
                    
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                    Brother Jim H. Warren, my mentor and father in the faith; had witnessed my preaching on several occasions while I was in training under him, in Biloxi, MS, in 1967. He was a dynamic preacher; full of faith and powerful in his delivery of the word of God. After hearing my second sermon, he felt the
                    
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                    Contributed by Andrew Hamilton on Apr 17, 2007
                
                
                
                    Have you ever eaten an unpeeled, unripe BANANA?  I understand you might be hungry and I get it when you say that you are hungry, but eating an unripe banana with the skin on is disgusting ... there is no satisfaction there!  God wants us to develop patience
                    
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                    Contributed by Amiri Hooker on Mar 22, 2011
                
                
                
                    KILLING EACH OTHER OVER RACE
Two million people have been killed during the civil war in the Sudan Region of Africa mostly over race, mostly over skin tone. The name Sudan comes from "bilad al sudan": Arabic for "the land of the blacks." So you might expect Sudanese to be comfortable with the
                    
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                    Contributed by Michael West on Oct 2, 2008
                
                
                
                    Devil's Entry
In the forefeet of pigs is a very small hole, which may be seen when the hair has been carefully removed. The tradition is that the legion of devils entered by these apertures.
There are also around it some six rings, the whole together not larger than a small spangle. They look as
                    
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                    Contributed by Lance Bane on Aug 14, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A 300 lb. man could not lose any weight.  He asked his minister for help.  His minister told him to be ready at 8 a.m. the next morning.  A young beautiful lady in a skin tight outfit showed up and said if you
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    My wife was grading a science test at home that she had given to her elementary-school class and was reading some of the results to me. The subject was "The Human Body," and the first question was: "Name one of the major functions of the skin."  One child wrote: "To keep
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Bines on Sep 19, 2006
                
                
                
                    The Bride’s attitude to herself is summed up in Song of Songs 1:5 ‘Dark am I yet lovely.’ In the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice there’s a scene where Mr Darcy’s sisters are discussing with their brother the physical beauty or otherwise of Miss Elisabeth Bennett. The sisters negatively
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Dec 2, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A little boy was trying to get to sleep but was frightened.  He shouted down from the bedroom, ‘Dad, it’s dark up here and I’m scared.’  His father shouted back, ‘Don’t be afraid.  God is with you.’  After a few second’s pause, the boy yelled again: ‘Get
                    
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                    Contributed by John Bright on Mar 10, 2025
                
                
                
                    Roman short whip, also called a flagrum.  It was made of two or three leather (ox-hide) thongs or ropes connected to a handle. The leather thongs were knotted with several small pieces of metal, usually zinc and iron, attached at various intervals. Scourging would quickly remove the skin. According
                    
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                    Contributed by Glenn Robertson on Nov 16, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In The Chronicles of Narnia, several young children represent Christians in a world of dragons, elves, unicorns, and many other mythical creatures. One of the children is a young boy named Eustace. Eustace is a very selfish boy. He always tries to see life for how it best benefits him. What he
                    
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                    Story:
The eagles is an interesting bird. It makes its nest from briars and thorns and then inlays the nest with animal skin, to stop the thorns and briars hurting the newly hatched eaglets. For the eaglets, this is the life. Mum brings the food and the eaglets hangs around the nest getting fat.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    F. We were made by God, from out of the dust of the earth.
Gen 2:7 (AMP) Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being. 
1. Your body contains about:
a. Enough iron to make a small nail.
b. Enough
                    
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                    Contributed by Steven Dow on May 28, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen retells a tale from ancient India: Four royal brothers decided each to master a special ability. Time went by, and the brothers met to reveal what they had learned.
“I have mastered a science,” said the first, “by which I can take but a bone of some creature and
                    
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