A man was hired to paint the lines on the highway that divide the lanes. Now the company didn’t have a lot of resources so he had to do his painting on foot. After the first day at work his supervisor was very impressed when he learned that this new employee had painted three miles’ worth of
                    
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                    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Nov 29, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Cradles The Shaped The World
An example Charles Swindoll uses is the year 1809. The international scene was tumultuous and turbulent that year. Napoleon Bonaparte was sweeping through Austria on his quest to rule the world, and blood was flowing freely. Nobody cared much about babies being born in
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Smith on Dec 4, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILL:  Christmas Season
Listen to this parody of the Christmas season that I read this past week:
"And there were in the same country children keeping watch over there stockings by the fireplace. And lo! And was said unto them `Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy that is for
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 17, 2006
                
                
                
                    	We should not be frustrated by mysteries; we should delight in them.  We don’t have to figure everything out.  In an essay titled “Meditation in a Toolshed,” C. S. Lewis describes an experience he had inside a dark toolshed.  The sun was brilliantly shining outside, but inside the shed only a
                    
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                    Contributed by Don Jones on Feb 2, 2007
                
                
                
                    	The California coast was shrouded in fog the morning of July 4, 1952. Twenty-one miles to the west, on Catalina Island, a thirty-four year old woman waded into the water and began swimming toward California. She was determined to be the first woman to ever swim the twenty-one mile strait. Her name
                    
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                    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Feb 5, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Many of you have seen the movie, “Finding Nemo”.
•It’s a powerful story of the love and determination of a caring father.
•It’s the story of being lost, and then found. 
•It’s a story that can help us understand our Heavenly Father and His love for us. 
In the movie, Nemo’s father Marlin loved him
                    
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                    Contributed by A. David Hart on Feb 20, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I love working in my yard. In fact my neighbors think that I take yard work all too seriously. 
I’ll cut my grass and make sure that it is cut in a certain pattern. I make sure that my lines are straight from the lawnmower wheels and my flowers have to be just right. 
But one day disaster struct.
                    
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                    Contributed by David Parks on Mar 31, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One Solitary Life
Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a
                    
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                    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Apr 9, 2007
                
                
                
                    "One such symbol is located in Washington D.C. High atop Capital Hill sits the Capital Building of the U.S.A. The cornerstone of that building was laid in 1793, but the crowning touch, is the statue that stands on top of the rotunda which is called the “Freedom Lady”. The Freedom Lady was placed
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 13, 2009
                
                
                
                    OBJECT LESSON: NEW SOCKS
One of the things that our church does is that we give out new socks to some of the homeless men and women. You walk around and sleep here and there, and even if you take care of yourself and shower, your socks get dirty. When you’ve been wearing probably the same clothes
                    
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                    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jun 24, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE GRACE-FILLED FATHER
Six-year-old Brandon decided one Saturday morning to fix his parents pancakes.  He found a big bowl and spoon, pulled a chair to the counter, opened the cupboard, and pulled out the heavy flour canister, spilling it on the floor.  He scooped some of the flour into the bowl
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 11, 2009
                
                
                
                    THE TEDDY BEAR LADY
Most of the people at Chicago’s Children’s Hospital did not know her name.  They just knew her as the sweet elderly lady in the red suit who wanted to make sure that every sick child had a teddy bear to hug and caress.  She kept bringing the stuffed animals, purchased with her
                    
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                    Contributed by Bradley  Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
                
                
                
                    SUFFERING FOR THE RIGHT REASONS
Richard Wurmbrand is the founder of a ministry called "Voice of the Martyrs."  Some of you receive their publication.
Richard Wurmbrand was a Romanian Pastor who was imprisoned by the Russians and tortured for his faith in Christ. In May of 1966 Pastor Wurmbrand
                    
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                    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Sep 10, 2009
                
                
                
                    JOY IS BLACK
I recently read the following letter that was sent to Dr. Michael Youssef, pastor of The Church of the Apostles in Atlanta. The letter was sent by Mrs. Lane, who has been a primary school teacher for 38 years:
Dear Michael,
One day I was trying to teach my students the difference
                    
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