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Originally Proclaimed: 03/01/19 Intro: Last night at the CEF Banquet we heard a story told about a Marine in WWII. I went home and looked it up because I thought that it was a good way to begin our message this morning. Though the name and the exact location of this marine is not recorded,
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Originally Proclaimed: 02/24/19 Intro: Two Wednesday nights ago, I went home very quickly after our service with nausea and discomfort in my abdomen. All through last week, off and on during the day, I experienced the same symptoms. Added to that was a sense of fatigue that would set in much earlier than usual in
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Originally Proclaimed: 02/17/19 Intro: News sources reported that it was around this time of the year 23 years ago when the then Cleveland Browns separated from their head coach. The team was already in process to move to Baltimore, change its name, and hopefully transform its whole organization. That said, the coach’s record with the
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Originally Proclaimed: 02/10/19 Intro: In the Smithsonian Magazine I found this interesting story. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/curious-george-daring-escape-nazis-180960779/ Hans Reyersbach and his wife Margarete Waldstein were Jewish artists from Hamburg who met in Rio de Janerio. Hans moved their after World War I, selling plumbing fixtures, sketching and painting. Margarete moved a decade later as a photographer, specifically because
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Originally Proclaimed: 02/03/19 Intro: What do you think about when you hear the word cultivate? My first thoughts rush to gardening and particularly to roses. Most plants require very little care so that with a bit of good soil, the right kind of light, and regular watering in no time you can see the beautiful
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Originally Proclaimed: 01/27/19 Intro: In our day we are probably very familiar with the concept of a stress test. Originally stress tests were primarily used in certain fields of engineering. Wikipedia defines that kind of stress testing as “a form of deliberately intense or thorough testing used to determine the stability of a given system
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Originally Proclaimed: 01/20/19 Intro: One of my friends and deacons in Enoree was a paramedic with Regional. He and I talked often about his job, and about people with whom he had come into contact. In one of our conversations he said to me, “You know my job lets me see the worst side of
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