Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 29, 2011
MEET ME AT THE MEN'S STORE
Paying my way through Ohio State University was demanding, but the benefit was worth the struggle. My father had died during my senior year in high school, and my mother had become blind. With her encouragement, however, I enrolled in the University on the eve of the
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Contributed by Jay Winters on Feb 9, 2008
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Three In One who makes our lives more beautiful than what they could ever be on their own.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
About ten years ago, a movie came out that just about everyone saw. It was called “Fight
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Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 20, 2008
Several months back as I was traveling along one of the interstate routes I noticed a sign that was kind of a play off of an older advertisement scheme of the dairy industry. It was nothing more than a solid black background with a two word question in bold white lettering: “Got Prayer?”
This
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Frederick Buechner, from Wishful Thinking
The Gospels depict Jesus as having spent a surprising amount of time healing people. Although, like the author of Job before him, he specifically rejected the theory that sickness was God's way of getting even with sinners (John 9:1-3), he nonetheless
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 3, 2024
[022] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - AT HIS FEET
This poem looks at certain events focussed on being at the Lord’s feet. Those feet that today bear the scars of Calvary, walked this earth in ministry and teaching as God among us. The best known story about the feet of Jesus is this one – {{Luke
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 14, 2025
[060]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DO NOT TRUST OURSELVES – TRUST GOD
When you think you know it all:
Then you don't.
When you think you’ll do it all;
Then you won’t.
I find this a delightful poem (for myself) and I am sharing my own experience here in writing it. Often we think we know best
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 3, 2025
[096]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN
This poem is one of rhyming couplets and the theme is “now on earth, but looking towards being in heaven with the Lord.”
Do you love the world? Well my answer is yes and no. I absolutely love the world, that is, the creation in the world.
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 24, 2026
[320]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - UNGRATEFUL WRETCHES – THE LEPERS
Ingratitude is a sign of the times. People are becoming more selfish and self-centred and demanding as the Church age draws to a close. This is also in line with 2 Timothy 3:1-4.
So many today are just not thankful, and I suppose
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 8, 2026
[332]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - WE WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT
This poem is about a Christian’s walk with the Lord. To walk by sight means our eyes are on the things of the world and have been removed from God. That is failure. To walk by faith means eyes on the Lord, and how do we do
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2002
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The Martyrs of the Ecuador Mission
8 January 1956 (modified by sermon author)
In the dense rain-forests of Ecuador, on the Pacific side of the Andes Mountains, lives a tribe of Indians.
-They simply call themselves the “people” but their neighbor’s call them “savages”
-For many generations
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Contributed by Lynn Malone on Sep 12, 2005
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I heard the story of the minister who was leading a building campaign in his church and need to raise some additional funds. Sound familiar? One day, the minister was checking the store room (we know this isn’t a story about Benton United Methodist Church because there ain’t no store room!), and
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Max Lucado (Angels were Silent)
Describes how in a similar way we cry out for something to cut through the clutter of life, turning to faith and religion to give us simplicity, instead finding things just as complicated:
Enter, religion. We Christians have a solution for the confusion don’t we?
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 1, 2009
Dr. Harry Ironside - When I was a boy, I felt it was both a duty and a privilege to help my widowed mother make ends meet by finding employment in vacation time, on Saturdays and other times when I did not have to be in school. For quite a while I worked for a Scottish shoemaker, or "cobbler," as
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Dr. James Engel gives some prophetic advice on building bridges from one generation to the next - the following insights are from the website (www.ChristianLeadershipAlliance.org):
i. Don’t oppose this new generation! Don’t oppose each other’s generation.
1. They are not the enemy they are God’s
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"I'M NOT A CHRISTIAN, SO..."
You need to know what is going on in the head of a non-saved or pre-saved person.
* "I'm not a Christian, so ... I really don't understand this religious stuff. I did try and read bits of the Bible when I was at school, but found it hard to understand. I never went
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Feb 6, 2010
Failing to Give Him the Key
The early years of the 19th century were troubled times in the German confederation. Rumors of revolution and rioting had the federated government in panic. Klemens von Metternich, the chief statesman of the confederation, ordered thousands of young men drafted into the
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Oct 30, 2010
Yesterday I was reading about a man called Han van Meegeren who was a Dutch artist and an extremely talented ART FORGER. He forged some of the world's most famous paintings so well that the best art critics and art experts of his time thought his paintings were GENUINE.
Painting one of the finest
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Norman Vincent Peale wrote this:
"Ralston Young carries bags for a living but his real job is living the spirit of Christ as a porter in one of the world's greatest railway stations.
One day he was asked to take a little old lady to her train.
She was in a wheel chair so he took her down on the
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