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                    What would you be willing to do for $10,000,000-00?  In their book, The Day America Told the Truth, James Patterson and Peter Kim reveal some shocking statistics about how far people in this country are willing to go for ten million.
Would abandon their entire family (25%)
Would abandon their
                    
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                    Contributed by Frank Houston on Jan 8, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    BROKEN ALREADY
At the beginning of a new year, a high school principal decided to post his teachers’ new year’s resolutions on the bulletin board. 
As the teachers gathered around the bulletin board, a great commotion started.  One of the teachers was complaining.  "Why weren’t my resolutions
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 23, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    DL Moody, a great evangelist of another generation told the story of an English lady who confront him after he said to the congregation to which she belonged: “None in this congregation will be saved until they stop trying to save themselves.” The lady said, “You have made me perfectly miserable.”
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 3, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Some of us fear conflict, like the grass in the African proverb, “when bull elephants fight, the grass always loses.” 
	Others of us dread conflict much like opening the proverbial can of worms without knowing how to get them back in.
	Others of us, however, seem to deal with it quite well like the
                    
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                    Documented in a book by James Patterson and Peter Kim, The Day America Told the Truth, (1991), Americans were asked:  “What are you willing to do for $10,000,000?” Two-thirds of Americans polled would agree to at least one, some to several of the following:
§	Would abandon their entire family
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A man fell off a cliff, but managed to grab a tree limb on the way down. The following conversation ensued: 
"Is anyone up there?" 
"I am here. I am the Lord. Do you believe me?" 
"Yes, Lord, I believe. I really believe, but I can’t hang on much longer." 
"That’s all right, if you really believe
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Labate on Feb 19, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LAST CHANCE
When Bishop Philip Brooks, author of “O, Little Town of Bethlehem,” was seriously ill, he requested no friends come to see him.  But when an acquaintance of his named Robert Ingersoll, a famous anti-Christian propagandist, came to see him he allowed him to come in right away. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Emil Boniog on Dec 10, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When Bishop Philip Brooks, author of “O, Little Town of Bethlehem,” was seriously ill, he requested no friends come to see him. But when an acquaintance of his named Robert Ingersoll, a famous anti-Christian propagandist, came to see him he allowed him to come in right away. Ingersoll said, “I
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 20, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Our seven-year-old daughter had just won $2 for her memory work in Sunday School.
After the morning service, the pastor’s wife congratulated her.
Our daughter proudly announced, “And I put it all in the morning’s offering!”
“My, how wonderful!” the pastor’s wife exclaimed.  “I’m sure God will be
                    
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                    Contributed by William Yates on Mar 18, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Tradition has it that Michelangelo was teaching some art students one day. He walks over to one of his students and then starts painting on his canvass. He then hands the student the brush. The student is awestruck. He asks: "How can I finish what you have started?"
"Let this inspire you to finish
                    
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                    Contributed by John Quigley on Mar 1, 2005
                
                
                
                    In an interview with George Marsden, Professor of History, Notre Dame University, regarding the fundamentalist - modernist controversy of the late 1800’s - early 1900’s the question was asked: "What do you appreciate most about fundamentalists?" Marsden replied thusly:
	"Fundamentalists are
                    
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                    Contributed by Ervin Kimrey on May 21, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    NEVER REALLY CONNECTED
One night I saw my 7 year old daughter walking around with a cell phone.  She was talking away. She would ask questions, wait for a reply, and give answers to apparent questions: "Yes...no...maybe...I’ll have to check on that..." and so on.  Finally, worried about the bill
                    
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                    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Jan 13, 2007
                
                
                
                    A young girl’s aunt took her out for the day and they went to a great cathedral. It was the first time the girl had ever visited such a magnificent place and she sat gazing in wonder at the sunlit beauty of the large stained glass windows. “Auntie, who are those people in the windows?” she
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 30, 2007
                
                
                
                    Song by Scott Krippayne- Sometimes He calms the storm with a whispered peace be still 
He can settle any sea but it doesn’t mean He will 
Sometimes He holds us close and lets the wind and waves go wild 
Sometimes He calms the storm and other times He calms His child 
He has a reason for each trial
                    
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                    In the days before Connecticut became a state, the colonial legislature was in session when a thick black cloud blocked out the sunlight.  Someone shouted, "It is the day of judgment! Let us go home and get ready!" 
But one member of the legislature, who happened to be an old church deacon, stood
                    
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                    Contributed by Allan Quak on Jan 8, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Ghost
Perhaps you have seen the movie "Ghost".  Admittedly it came out in 1990 so maybe it is a bit old for some of you.  It stars Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.  Early in the movie Patrick dies and becomes a "ghost".  Near the end of the movie Demi has to let him go as he walks to a group of
                    
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                    BRAINERD: HONOR TO GOD
Let me leave you with some words from the famous American colonial missionary to the Indians, David Brainerd, who died at the age of twenty-nine. His diary reveals a young man intensely committed to God. Brainerd once said to Jonathan Edwards: 
"I do not go to heaven to be
                    
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