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                    Any armour, including the Armour of God is useless without a sword - for the enemy can keep attacking until the armour gives way - how important then
                    
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                    "I am your shield"  Genesis 15:8-16
This was exactly what Abram needed to hear.  He KNEW what a Shield was.  Remember that Abram had just returned from battle.  He probably owed his own life to the strength of his Shield.  
The shield is what absorbs the shock of the spear and sword. It repels
                    
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                    Contributed by James Jack on Apr 11, 2009
                
                
                
                    	I did a google image search for the “armour of God.” It’s extraordinary the number of diagrams and pictures devoted to this theme. For our instruction and entertainment (well, actually more for our entertainment), I’ll show you a selection.
•	They normally involve someone decked out somewhat like
                    
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                    Contributed by Thomas Black on Feb 2, 2005
                
                
                
                    William Gurnall in his book "The Christian In Complete Armour" writes: 
"Ask faith to look through the keyhole of the promise and tell you what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; ask it to listen and tell you whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints receiving the reward
                    
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                    Elmer Bendiner, a crewmember in a World War II B-17 bomber, the Tondalayo, was barraged by flak from Nazi antiaircraft guns. That was not unusual, but on this particular occasion, the gas tanks were hit. Later Elmer reflected on the miracle of a 20 mm shell piercing the fuel tank without touching
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 4, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    OBAMA IS NOT THE MESSIAH
President Barack Obama arrived at Stansted airport last week from America, complete with armoured limousines, helicopters, 200 US Secret Service staff and a six-doctor medical team. More than 500 officials and staff accompanied Obama, along with a mass of high-tech
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 8, 2009
                
                
                
                    For most of us our only understanding of chariots and there use in warfare comes from movies.  
Most of us have watch Charlton Heston in the chariot race in ben hur.
 
There is scene in the movie Gladiator that is terrifying. Maximus and the other gladiators are dressed as barbarians.  They are
                    
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                    FAKING THE GRAIN
Wood craftsmen and finishers of fine furniture are not nearly as common to our times as they were 100 years ago. For that matter, they are not found as much today as they were around even 25 years ago. 
Some of these men were literally artists when it came to taking an old piece
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 1, 2024
                
                
                
                    [008]  MESSAGE FROM A POEM - A TALE OF THE FISH’S TAILS
“Take the line of least resistance; go with the flow; jellyfish that drift; leave me out of it; I see both sides; don’t involve me; I don’t want to know!”  The world is full of compromise and it gets worse.  We can expect no less from this
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 21, 2025
                
                
                
                    [083].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FOR MEN - THE THREE Cs
There are 9 poems in this series.  This poem is part of a Trilogy - three sets of three.  The first set is addressed to MEN, the second to ALL CHRISTIANS and the third is SPECIFIC.  This is the second one in the first set - FOR MEN.
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 14, 2025
                
                
                
                    [082].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FOR MEN - THE THREE Gs
There are 9 poems in this series.  This poem is part of a Trilogy - three sets of three.  The first set is addressed to MEN, the second to ALL CHRISTIANS and the third is SPECIFIC.  This is the first one in the first set - FOR MEN.
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 7, 2025
                
                
                
                    [051].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – CONVENTION HYMN   (WRITTEN THEN) – FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW
This was written during the Easter Keswick Convention at Atherton on the Atherton Tablelands in North Queensland, in the spare time I had there with all the organisation to do.  These Conventions are
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Mar 9, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Village that lives by the Bible
by Clarence W. Hall
It was early in 1945 when, as a war correspondent on Okinawa, I first came upon Shimabuku, the strangest and most inspiring community I ever saw.  Huddled beneath its groves of banyan and twisted pine trees, this remote village of some 1000
                    
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