Contributed by Brent Williams on Jun 7, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Train and the Boy
I would like to tell you a story about a man named John Griffith.  John was the father of an 8-year-old boy during the 20’s and 30’s.  John was very fortunate during those times, because he had job.  John loved his son very much.  He was the apple of his eye.  John’s son was a
                    
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                    PROVERBS 22:6
“The Hebrew word for train (h\aµnak_) means to dedicate…. H\aµnak_ seems to include the idea of setting aside, narrowing, or hedging in. The word is sometimes used in the sense of “start.” Child-training involves “narrowing” a child’s conduct away from evil and toward godliness and
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Mar 16, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    TRAIN WRECK
Some years ago, a fearful railroad wreck took a dreadful toll of life and limb in an eastern state. A train, loaded with young people returned from school, was stalled on a suburban track because of what is known as a "hot-box." Another limited train was soon due, but a flagman was
                    
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                    TRAINING IN GODLINESS
Our daughter-in-law has participated at times in triathlon competitions. The triathlon is an endurance event in which you swim a certain distance, ride your bike a certain distance, and finally, and without resting, run a certain distance. It is a very demanding test of your
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 7, 2011
                
                
                
                    THE TRAIN WHISTLE
"I lived in Germany during the Nazi holocaust.  I considered myself a Christian.  I attended Church since I was a small boy.  We had heard the stories of what was happening to the Jews, but like most people  we tried to distance ourselves from the reality of what was really
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Steen on Dec 9, 2017
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When I was a little boy, Christmas was really exciting. Sears Roebuck and Company would send toy catalogs out to my mom because she had an account with them. I would spend hours every Christmas looking at every item in the catalog.
The catalog was filled with every kind of toy a boy could think
                    
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                    Main Idea: God the Father sacrificed His only Son so that we could live. 
Verse: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16 NKJV). 
Illustration: Once there was a train engineer who had one
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric  Ferguson on May 16, 2008
                
                
                
                    How To Train An Elephant
Have you ever wondered how to train an elephant?
The first step is making it believe it can’t run away.
Get your elephant—preferably a baby one—and tie it to a strong steel stake in the ground, like you would tie a horse to a hitching post.
The baby elephant will try to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SUNDAY TRAINS
William Barclay tells this story: 
The first Sunday train from Glasgow to Edinburgh ran on the 13th of March, 1842. Our contemporary journalist, wrote that it was filled with peaceful and respectable persons, gliding quietly away on its mission. The Presbytery of Glasgow, however,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    TRAINING THE LITTLE SAVAGE
Every baby starts life as a little savage.  He is completely selfish and self-centered.  He wants what he wants when he wants it - his bottle, his mother’s attention, his playmate’s toy, his uncle’s watch.  Deny him these once, and he seethes with rage and
                    
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                    Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 7, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Two Ladies on a Train
•	Years ago a man found himself on a train between two ladies. 
•	And Unfortunately for him the two ladies were arguing constantly about whether the window should be open or shut. 
•	The lady farthest from the window argued that she would die of heat stroke if it wasn’t
                    
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                    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jul 19, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The doubleheader train was bucking a heavy snowstorm as its steam engines pulled it west.
A woman with a baby wanted to leave the train at one of the little stations along the route.
She repeatedly called, “Don’t forget me!” to the brakeman responsible to call out the stations they approached. Her
                    
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                    Contributed by William Neel on Jan 23, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When I was in the marines, the training for commandos included cliff assaults. The theory was that a commando raid should be a surprise, done as quickly and as silently as possible on the area with the lightest defenses. The lightest defense is at the point where attack is least expected. More
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what
                    
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