Contributed by Sol Madlambayan on Nov 30, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    According to the study made by Paul Lee Tan:  “the murder rate in the U.S is roughly 10,000 per year- more than one per hour everyday in the year. In all the wars in the nations’ history, 530,000 US combatants have been killed; but
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Feb 25, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A story told by Paul Lee Tan illustrates the meaning of redemption. He said that when A.J. Gordon was pastor of a church in Boston, he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary carrying a rusty cage in which several birds fluttered nervously. Gordon inquired, "Son, where did you get those birds?"
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 15, 2007
                
                
                
                    There have been over 1,100 religious leaders in different parts of the world in the last fifty years who have claimed to be Christ and the Savior of the world. Most of these false christs have risen in Africa, in India or in the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    FREED FROM DEATH- COMMUNION MEDITATION
Paul Lee Tan writes about a horrible Roman practice:  
"The Romans sometimes compelled a captive to be joined face-to-face with a dead body, and to bear it about until the horrible effluvia [vapors] destroyed the life of the living victim. Virgil describes
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 15, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One afternoon in 1965, Daniel Waswa, a citizen of Kenya, struggled up a hill and was crucified by his wife at his own direction. As he hung on the cross, he told the gathered crowd, “I am dying for the sins of all Kenyans.”
After nailing her husband to the cross, the woman collapsed on the ground
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Tow on Apr 9, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I came across this little reminder years ago.        
              “I’m careful of the words I say
              to keep them soft and sweet.
              I never know from day to day
              which ones I’ll have to eat.”
From Paul Lee Tan,
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Tow on Nov 24, 2003
                
                
                
                    F.B. Myer once said that three lights must line up before God’s will is clear.
(1)  The inward impulse—what we call the subjective leading of the Lord—the voice of the Lord.
(2)  The word of God—as revealed in scripture.
(3)  The trend of the circumstances.
Encyclopedia of
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 6, 2010
                
                
                
                    THREE BONES IN CHURCH
ILLUS: TAN-9022. Three “Bones” In Church
	Church members may be divided into three classes in a mere skeleton outline: wishbones, jawbones, and backbones. The wishbones are always languidly hoping that their church will somehow grow without their effort; the jawbones talk
                    
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                    Contributed by David Lema on Nov 23, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILUSTRACION:
Una noche de Navidad en el año 1944 en un campo de concentración alemán en Viena ocurrió algo verdaderamente extraño, misterioso.
El autor de esta historia cuenta que en aquella noche jamás se había podido sentir tanto abatimiento de espíritu, tanta soledad, tanta impotencia como las
                    
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                    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 18, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Panel of Women debated on what they thought was a perfect man, a guy who was ‘with it’.  You would have thought they would have decided upon some actor or athlete even a wealthy tycoon.  They decided that the perfect man was MR POTATO HEAD.  4 Reasons: ‘He’s tan, he’s cute, he
                    
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                    Contributed by Jenily Silva on Oct 1, 2007
                
                
                
                    Observe esto con detenimiento, ¿que pasa cuando usted está convencido de algo? Miremos un niño, mi hija por ejemplo; ella estaba deseando comprar una computadora de la barbie. Su papá le dijo un domingo que el viernes de esa semana que iniciaba, tan pronto llegara de un
                    
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                    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 10, 2009
                
                
                
                    Six hundred teenagers found in New England’s prisons gave these startling facts as to why they were there:
	Six out of ten had fathers who drank to excess. 
	Many had mothers in the same condition. 
	Three out of four were permitted by parents to come and go as they pleased.
                    
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                    Había una vez un rey en una remota isla, dicho rey aburrido por todo lo que veía y todo lo que hacía y que ya no encontraba gracia a nada, decidió hacer una visita a la isla vecina donde habitaba un gran sabio que de todo daba razón y esto le llamó tanto la atención, que ni corto ni perezoso salió
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 18, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    KEEPING THE AQUARIUM
"With all our education, our fine buildings, our image of the church, we are doing less to win people to Christ than our unschooled forefathers did. We're no longer fishers of men, but keepers of the aquarium, and we spend most of our time swiping fish from each other's bowl."
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Romans sometimes compelled a captive to be joined face-to-face with a dead body, and to bear it about until the horrible emanating smell destroyed the life of the living victim. Virgil describes this cruel punishment:
’The living and the dead at his command
Were coupled face to face, and hand
                    
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