Contributed by Bradley  Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
                
                
                
                    COMMUNICATION IS CHARACTER
Roger Ailes who works for Fox News says: "You are the message.  What does that mean exactly?  It means that when you communicate with someone, it’s not just the words you choose to send to the other person that make
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 14, 2009
                
                
                
                    Like the game Mousetrap, if we are in the middle of it -- the guy falling through the bath tub, for example, it doesn’t make sense.  But we are part of a process. Maybe we will raise a child that will raise a child that will marry a woman with a child from a previous marriage, and your grandson
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Bounds on Dec 20, 2009
                
                
                
                    This body is like this glove.  The hand represents the spirit.  As long as the hand is in the glove, the glove can move and work.  The hand is the real life inside.  When we die and go to be with the Lord, we lay the glove down.  The spirit, which is
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
                
                
                
                    Quote Charles Spurgeon:
"The Holy Ghost works by those who feel they would lay down their own lives for the good of others, and would impart to them not only their goods and their instructions, but themselves also, if by any means they might save some. O
                    
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                    THE STORY OF JANUARIUS
Januarius, as bishop of Benevento, was performing one of the works of mercy when he was arrested.  He was visiting some deacon friends in prison.  They were then all rounded up and put in the arena with the wild beasts, who refused to eat them.  (I find it comforting
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 10, 2011
                
                
                
                    KINGDOM INFRASTRUCTURE
America’s economic health is partly dependent upon infrastructure: speedy roads, bridges, trains, electrical capacity, usable water, high speed internet, trained or skilled workers, etc.
Healthy churches are foundational to getting God’s work done: they support the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WHOEVER GETS THE SON GETS IT ALL
The story is told about a wealthy man and his only son - both of whom loved to collect rare works of art! They had everything - from the late great Andalusian-Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor, Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) to the late great Italian painter
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In one of his lighter moments, Benjamin Franklin penned his own epitaph.:
The Body of B. Franklin, Printer
Like the Cover of an old Book
Its contents torn out,
And stript of its Lettering and Guilding,
Lies here, Food for Worms,
But the Work shall not be
                    
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                    Contributed by Mike Leiter on Nov 11, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I believe the old adage is correct that says: The five most important words are “You did a good job.”  The four most important words are, “What is your opinion?”  The three most important words are, “Let’s work together” The two most
                    
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                    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jul 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A Pastor went to give blood, and was asked several questions to determine his eligibility.  The last item on the questionnaire was, “Do you engage in any hazardous work?”  He smiled and answered “Yes.”  He was wearing a clerical collar.  The Red Cross worker looked up, marked
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WE WILL PREVAIL 
"My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others. And we will prevail." --President George W. Bush,
                    
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                    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Aug 26, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE GOSPEL OF GRACE?
Put bluntly: the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works – but our lives refute our faith. 
By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor
                    
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                    Notice what captures your imagination.  What is that you dwell on when you’re alone?  The movie In the Line of Fire, Clint Eastwood is asked “what do you see in the dark when the demons come.”  What is it that draws our attention to itself?  It may be our families, work
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2005
                
                
                
                    A person researching their family’s genealogy was walking through a cemetery.  They noticed an epithet on a tombstone. 
It read:
"Here lies Jamie Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, marble cutter and tombstone maker. This monument was erected by her husband as a tribute to her memory and a specimen of
                    
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                    Contributed by Glenn Teal on Dec 7, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Is Narnia the only world in which there are unseen forces – both good and evil – are at work?
Is Narnia the only place where an evil imposter 
has taken the place of the rightful King and brought otherwise good people under a wicked spell?
And that lion Aslan  – is Narnia the
                    
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                    Contributed by Dan Waite on Dec 16, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “He started the whole adventure of Christianity in Nazareth. Nazareth? Yes, Nazareth. Why Nazareth? Because there He found a women who was completely yielded to His purpose for her life. Great works of God rarely start in big places. Rather, they start in small places -- in some
                    
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