Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 26, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Ingratitude denotes spiritual immaturity. Infants do not always appreciate what parents do for them. They have short memories. Their concern is not what you did for me yesterday, but what are you doing for me today. The past is meaningless and so is the future. They live for the present. Those who
                    
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                    Contributed by Guy Glass on Sep 5, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In New Jersey – according to the Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, 2001-2002 
Violent Crime increased 129%  -- from 1967-2000
State Prisoners increased 508% -- from 1965-2001
Illegitimate births increased 578% from 1960-1999
Divorce rates increased 328% from 1960-1999
Children living in
                    
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                    After Ashley Smith, in Atlanta, talked a man who had just killed several people into surrendering; she said she felt it was God’s will that he selected her and that he saw a copy of "The Purpose Driven Life" (Rick Warren) on her coffee table. Her grandfather said,"We always knew Ashley would do
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Church Planting In NYC: While New York’s 5 boroughs claim 8.1 million residents, an estimated 22 million people live within 50 miles of Times Square. The city is home to millions of immigrants representing hundreds of languages and countries. A 16 denomination alliance has committed to planting 700
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Henry Wingblade used to say that Christian personality is hidden deep inside us. It is unseen, like the soup carried in a tureen high over a waiter’s head. No one knows what’s inside--unless the waiter is bumped and he trips! Just so, people don’t know what’s inside us until we’ve been
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark  Canfield on Nov 9, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    According to a new study by sociologists at Duke University and the University of Arizona.   
Americans’ circle of confidants has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades and the number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled, “This change
                    
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                    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Feb 19, 2007
                
                
                
                    When I got engaged, we went to a local gemologist at his home.  He took us to his living room, pulled his hand out of his pocket and held it out with several stones and said, "Pick one."
Gemologists/geologists are able to analyze and discern which gems/metals are
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Author Dwight Small made an eloquent application of godly love to marriage: "Godly love is not born of a lover’s need, nor does it have its source in the one loved. God’s love empties itself to give what the other needs.
"Its motives rise wholly from within its own nature. Godly love lives in
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Aug 9, 2007
                
                
                
                    Henry Wingblade used to say that Christian personality is hidden deep inside us. It is unseen, like the soup carried in a tureen high over a waiter’s head. No one knows what’s inside—unless the waiter is bumped and he trips! Just so, people don’t know what’s inside us until we’ve been
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 25, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Hypocrisy can be illusrated by the way  we clean house when  company is coming - We shove our junk in the closet, stuff it under the bed, etc. where it can’t be seen. Out of sight it doesn’t exist at least to our guests.  That is not a horrible way to  clean house, but it is terrible way to deal
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 3, 2008
                
                
                
                    All men commanded to appear 3 times a year there, but the Rabbis found a way to reinterpret this; at the time of Jesus, a man was considered especially devout if he went once a year, and some went once in a lifetime or every 4 or 5 years! (see "Pilgrimage at the Time of Jesus" by Shmuel Safrai,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "The first Christmas is a miraculous story of the eternal God becoming of no reputation and then humbling Himself to accept a cruel death on a cross. Sure there were angel choirs. Kings came from far away to worship Him. But the true Christmas story is about smallness, humility and servanthoodLet
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
                
                
                
                    SUCCESS IN DIFFICULTY
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), Educator, as quoted in Bits & Pieces, Vol. T/No. 17, p. 5 - 
"Many men owe the grandeur
                    
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