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                    Example: tennis ball vs. play dough
We are all affected by the storms and struggles of life.  The question to consider is how are you going to respond?  Like a tennis ball or play dough?  You see, when you put pressure on play dough, it leaves a lasting imprint.  Everybody can tell that is has been
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 27, 2006
                
                
                
                    Story – Silver shoe kid.
I worked for years in a department store.
There was this kid that worked in the China Department.
A place of high value products.
This kid was offered a much better position – turned it down!
Why? Because he walk out each day with a set of silverware I each shoe.
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    .  DESPAIR 
A. No Hope On Sea Or Land. The 2,037-ton Portuguese coastal steamer, Save, with 53 crewmen, 300 Portuguese troops, and 200 Mozambique Africans aboard, grounded on a sandbar of East Africa during a storm. While rescue efforts were being made from the shore, fire broke out on the ship.
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 2, 2009
                
                
                
                    WITHSTANDING THE WINDS
When a house is well-constructed it weathers the storm. A friend of mine owns a house on the northern beaches that simply became run down with age. Its on a headland, exposed to all the elements, especially salt spray and strong winds. When Jim rebuilt the house a couple of
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Aug 20, 2009
                
                
                
                    On November 30, 1991 fierce winds from a freakish dust storm triggered a massive freeway pileup along Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California. At least 14 people died and dozens more were injured as topsoil whipped by 50 mile-per-hour winds reduced visibility to zero. The afternoon holocaust left a
                    
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                    Contributed by Jonathan  Busch on Jan 6, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was a man the side of the road hitch hiking on a very dark night in the middle of a storm. It was late at night and no cars were passing.  The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly, he saw a car coming towards him and stop. Without further thought, he got
                    
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                    I remember a summer day that began bright and sunny, but muggy and uncomfortable. The weatherman predicted storms, but when one looked outside, it was hard to believe it would happen. By 3 in the afternoon things had changed drastically. The air was so humid you felt you would drown just walking
                    
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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 Paul Carlson on Feb 11, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE TALLEST TREE DRAWS THE FIRE
1991 U.S. Open – Hazeltine National Golf Course, just outside Minneapolis, MN.  A peaceful, calm day.
Gray clouds rush swiftly overhead within minutes.  Lightning is spotted; a golfer’s worst nightmare.  Storm sirens soon blast as a fierce thunderstorm blows in,
                    
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                    Contributed by C Jordan on Oct 29, 2008
                
                
                
                    “Thus the whole book from beginning to end teaches the great truths – Christ shall triumph!  Christ’s enemies shall be overcome!  They who hate him shall be destroyed; they who love him shall be blessed unspeakably.  The doom alike of Jew and of Gentile is already imminent.  On Judea and Jerusalem,
                    
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                    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 25, 2010
                
                
                
                    “You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need. And who
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 22, 2010
                
                
                
                    “Not Always the Same Method”
The Spirit is like the wind.  There is mystery, there is power, and we cannot chart the course of the Spirit.  He is sovereign to do as He pleases, just as the wind blows where it lists.  
He did not use the same method or manner with Knox and Luther and Wesley and
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 10, 2011
                
                
                
                    PERSECUTION IN NIGERIA
Muslim extremists carried out new attacks on villages in Nigeria’s Plateau state in September, killing more than 100 Christians, including entire families, according to Compass Direct News.
On Sept. 10, 2011, Muslim extremists stormed Vwang Fwil village at 3 a.m., killing
                    
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                    WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM NOAH
God has much too teach us, one person observed a few things they learned from Noah:
 
      1. Don't miss the boat!
      2. Plan ahead. It wasnt raining when Noah built the ark.
      3. Stay ready. It was not until Noah was 600 years old that God asked him to do
                    
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                    Contributed by Fred Sigle on Apr 5, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A Christian man and his wife lost their young SON in a TRAGIC ACCIDENT on Good Friday in 1996.   The boy’s funeral was on Easter Sunday.  During the MEMORIAL service the father got up and shared with his family and friends that Easter had taken on a new importance.  "Until you stare death
                    
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                    The huge redwood trees in California are amazing. 
• They are the largest living things on earth and the tallest trees in the world. 
• Some of them are 100m high and more than 2,500 years old. 
• You would think that trees that large would have a tremendous root system, reaching down deep into the
                    
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