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Acceptance

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• "Our" Car
  • Date Added: February 27, 2006
  • Excerpt: Suppose you have a friend named Jim who tells you, "I am going to buy you a $50,000 automobile as a gift."…
• Best Worker I Ever Hired
  • Date Added: March 2, 2006
  • Excerpt: I try not to be biased, but I had my doubts about hiring Stevie. His placement counselor assured me that…
• Bill Goes to Church
  • Date Added: February 27, 2006
  • Excerpt: His name is Bill. He has wild hair, wears a T-shirt with holes in it, jeans and no shoes. This was literally…
• Don't Leave it on the Desk
  • Date Added: April 10, 2006
  • Excerpt: There was a certain Professor of Religion named Dr. Christianson, a studious man who taught at a small…
• Grudges
  • Date Added: March 10, 2007
  • Excerpt: A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.…
• He Gave His Son
  • Date Added: March 20, 2006
  • Excerpt: After a few of the usual Sunday evening hymns, the church's pastor slowly stood up, walked over to the…
• How do you treat others?
  • Date Added: March 14, 2006
  • Excerpt: During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and…
• How to Respond to Needs
  • Date Added: July 12, 2006
  • Excerpt: When there's a serious accident and cars are banged up and people's bodies are battered, cut, bleeding…
• My Problem
  • Date Added: March 9, 2007
  • Excerpt: Dear God, I have a problem. It's me.…
• On Problems
  • Date Added: March 9, 2007
  • Excerpt: When we get tangled up in our problems, be still. God wants us to be still so He can untangle the knot.…
• Pickup in the Rain
  • Date Added: March 14, 2006
  • Excerpt: One night, at 11:30 PM, an older African-American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway…
• Showing Jesus
  • Date Added: June 6, 2006
  • Excerpt: One day a woman was walking down the street when she spied a beggar sitting on the corner. The man was…
• Still He Walked
  • Date Added: May 9, 2006
  • Excerpt: He could hear the crowds screaming "crucify" "crucify"... He could hear the hatred in their voices, These…
• The Angel's Lesson
  • Date Added: March 13, 2006
  • Excerpt: He placed one scoop of clay upon another until a form lay lifeless on the ground. All of the Garden's…
• The Blood of Jesus
  • Date Added: May 8, 2006
  • Excerpt: One night in a church service a young woman felt the tug of God at her heart. She responded to God's…
• The Duck and the Devil
  • Date Added: May 3, 2006
  • Excerpt: There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was given a slingshot to play with…
• The Master's Card
  • Date Added: February 27, 2006
  • Excerpt: Total Love and Acceptance Purchased with This Card This Master Card will get you all the love you could…
• The Masters Vessel
  • Date Added: May 11, 2006
  • Excerpt: The Master was searching for a vessel to use. On the shelf there were many, which one would he choose…
• The Prodigal Son in the Key of F
  • Date Added: July 6, 2007
  • Excerpt: Feeling footloose and frisky, a featherbrained fellow forced his father to fork over his farthings. Fast…
• The Trip Was Worth It
  • Date Added: January 13, 2007
  • Excerpt: A boy, just about to enter his teens, sat contentedly in the coach of a train traveling through the dry…
• The Whipping
  • Date Added: April 19, 2006
  • Excerpt: There was school with a class of students that no teacher had been able to handle. Two or three teachers…
• True Promise
  • Date Added: March 31, 2006
  • Excerpt: "How long will you be poring over that newspaper? Will you come here right away and make your darling…

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