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Let me quote a great man of God, Chuck Swindoll.
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact
of attitude on Life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education,
than money, than circumstances, than failures,
than successes,
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Jerry Falwell on May 15, 2002
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Years ago we had a janitor named Robert King Creasy who had a key chain with almost 100 keys on it, a key for every door in the church before we purchased a master lock and a master key. Creasy lived here in the church, knew everything that was going on in church, and kept it spotlessly clean.
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Baptist
Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 15, 2002
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Sometimes my daughter Olivia wakes up in the middle of the night and needs to use the bathroom.
It’s my job to get up and take her there, so I get out of bed to find her at outside her room.
She takes my hand as we go to the bathroom, which is about 6 feet from her door.
Does she need my hand
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Wesleyan
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A few weeks ago I rented the movie AI. It is set in the future, where a company has created a human robot child with the ability to love unconditionally. In many ways it was a disturbing movie, posing a number of difficult questions about what it means to be human and what the limits of our
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Baptist
Contributed by Lee Proctor on Jun 19, 2002
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In 1944, Leander McCormick-Goodheart, a recruiter for the Ford Motor Company, toured fifty universities across the United States to recruit the outstanding graduating student of each institution. At Leigh University, he met a young man named Lee Iacocca and offered him a position at Ford. This
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
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The Fine Art of Doing Nothing
The sign on the stage proclaimed: "The Motionless Man: Make Him Laugh. Win $100." The temptation was irresistible. For three hours boys and girls, men and women, performed every antic and told every joke they knew. But Bill Fuqua, the Motionless Man, stood perfectly
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Contributed by Michael Gibney on Aug 5, 2002
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I recently heard of four scholars who were arguing over Bible translations. One said he preferred the King James Version because of its beautiful, eloquent old English. Another said he preferred the American Standard Bible for its literalism, the way it moves the reader from passage to passage with
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Paul Decker on Oct 23, 2002
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MOTIVATION
Have you ever felt that you just didn’t have the heart for something?
Late one night, a man had gone to a party and had too much to drink, so he decided it would be best to walk home. He found a shortcut through a poorly lit cemetery and, in the darkness, stumbled into an open grave.
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Baptist
Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 27, 2002
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A man is walking past the field of a farmer with a cow on a roap. The farmer says, "Hey mister, where ya goin with thet there cow?’
The man replies, "I’m takin it to town to sell it."
The farmer says, " You mean if it’s the Lords will you are."
The man says , "Well it’s my cow and I recon I can do
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Mennonite
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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Traits characteristic of the stress-prone:
1. Plans day unrealistically
2. First to arrive, last to leave
3. Always in a hurry
4. Makes no plan for relaxation
5. Feels guilty about doing anything other than work
6. Sees unforeseen problem as a setback or disaster
7. Is always thinking about
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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"When Napoleon’s armies swept across Europe, one of his generals was preparing to attack the little town of Feldkirch on the Austrian border. It was Easter and the citizens gathered to decide whether to resist or surrender. The pastor told the people that they had been continuing on their own
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United Methodist
Contributed by Stephen Wright on Apr 13, 2003
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Many years ago, while on a visit to England, a wealthy Chinese businessman was fascinated by a powerful microscope. Looking through its lens to study crystals and the petals of flowers, he was amazed at their beauty and detail. So he decided to purchase one of these devices and take it back to
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Baptist
Contributed by Michael King on Jul 20, 2003
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STORY OF SHEEP
In the Highlands of Scotland, sheep would often wander off into the rocks and get
into places that they couldn’t get out of. The grass on these mountains is very sweet
and the sheep like it, and they will jump down ten or twelve feet, and then they can’t
jump back again, and the
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Contributed by Rick Stacy on Oct 15, 2003
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Joy comes from doing what you were designed to do.
Have you ever driven a really cool car that was designed to run flat out on the road.
Years ago I took my 65 Ford Falcon on a trip up north – no cars – just deer and jack pines for hundreds of square miles. I took it up to just shy of 100 mph
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Christian/Church Of Christ