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                    Merlin Carothers, author of the book Prison to Praise, had firsthand experience of what it is like to be declared righteous. During World War II, he joined the army. Anxious to get into some action, Carothers went AWOL but was caught and sentenced to five years in prison. Instead of sentencing him
                    
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                    Contributed by David Ward on Jun 11, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Alonzo Mourning terrorized and dominated many opponents in the National Basketball Association during most of the 1990s. Then Mourning was diagnosed with a kidney ailment that threatened his career, as well as his life. After being away from the game for several years of treatment, recovery, and
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 22, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    They know that statistics reveal if they can get a credit card in your hand that you will spend 34% more in a year than you would with cash. The average American credit card holder charges more than $2500 a year on credit cards which has an average interest rate of 18%. Just listen to the following
                    
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                    Chuck Swindoll:
In the fifty chapters of Genesis Joseph’s life story takes up one-fourth of the chapters. His life can be divided up into three sections:
•	Birth to Seventeen Years (Genesis 30:24-37:2) 
o	During this time Joseph’s family was is transition-everyone was unsettled, on the move. A
                    
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                    In the Greek Islands there is place where you can seek out the home of the famous Hippocrates – the founder of modern medicine.  There you will find an olive tree that supposedly dates back to the days of Hippocrates.  That would make the tree nearly 2,400 years old.  
The trunk of the tree is
                    
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                    January 6, 1850, was bitterly cold in Colchester, England, a hard-biting blizzard keeping most worshipers at home. 
At the Primitive Methodist Chapel on Artillery Street only about a dozen showed up. 
When it became apparent that even the pastor would not arrive, a man rose and spoke from Isaiah
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Sep 19, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jesus Took Our Place At Calvary
A man named Goho rose to be chief of the tribe. He was a good man, and far wiser and advanced in understanding than his fellow tribesmen. The year he became chief, the tribe brought in 40 heads. He judiciously suggested that the tribe use one head each year as a
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A monk joined a monastery and took a vow of silence. After the first 10 years his superior called him in and asked, “Do you have anything to say?” 
The monk replied, “Food bad.” 
After another 10 years the monk again had opportunity to voice his thoughts. 
He said, “Bed hard.” 
Another 10 years
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Inmates 4 times as many prisoners are released into society today as 20 years ago. An estimated 600,000 U.S. prisoners will be released in ’04 (over 1,600 are released daily). The Justice Bureau of Statistics estimates that 2 out of 3 released inmates were “rearrested within 3 years,” wreaking more
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Louis Pasteur, the pioneer of immunology, lived at a time when thousands of people died each year of rabies. Pasteur had worked for years on a vaccine. Just as he was about to begin experimenting on himself, a 9-year-old, Joseph Meister, was bitten by a rabid dog. The boy’s mother begged Pasteur to
                    
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                    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 19, 2009
                
                
                
                    JESUS TO THEM
A missionary, lost at sea, washed up on edge of a remote native village. Half-dead from exposure, starvation, and sea water, the natives nursed him back to health. He lived with them 20 years; never made a confession of faith, no songs, no sermons, no Scripture; but attended the sick
                    
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                    A homeless drug addict in June 1984, John Corapi stumbled back into his mother’s house, with what he called all the forces of hell riding on his shoulder.  He prayed for the first time in years and experienced the mercy of God, a sense of peace that replaced the wrath he had felt until then.  He
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Holmes on Jun 10, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Voltaire, the noted French writer, who died in 1778, said that in
one hundred years from his time Christianity would be swept from existence. Only fifty
years after Voltaire’s death, the Geneva
                    
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