Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 6, 2025
[048]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – CHRISTMAS TRAVESTY – PSEUDO CHRISTMAS
Walking through a shopping centre at Christmas time was a depressing trip. All around were merchants parading their wares with full commercialisation; fake Santa Claus(es) everywhere and the occasional songs being played –
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 13, 2025
[200]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – ON THE EMMAUS ROAD – EASTER POEM
The greatest bible study in history happened on the road leading to Emmaus.
The reason why the disciples, who were still in shock, did not understand the events that were unfolding rapidly before them, was that they did not
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009
DEMAND VS. CHOICE
A demand masked as a request is worse than a demand. Like giving kids a choice when there is no choice. "Would you like to go to Gramas?" implies of the option of choosing either way, and it is
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Contributed by Dave Kinney on Dec 6, 2008
I BELIEVE IN THE SHOVEL
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "I believe in the shovel. It has fed the tribes of mankind. It has furnished them water, coal, iron, and gold. And now it is giving them truth –
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Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 18, 2002
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Quote. (John Maxwell)
Do It Anyway!
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. – Love them anyway!
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. – Do good anyway!
If you are successful you will win false friends and true enemies. – Succeed anyway!
The good you do
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Contributed by Paul Decker on Oct 23, 2002
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MOTIVATION
Have you ever felt that you just didn’t have the heart for something?
Late one night, a man had gone to a party and had too much to drink, so he decided it would be best to walk home. He found a shortcut through a poorly lit cemetery and, in the darkness, stumbled into an open grave.
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After a divorce, a mom was left to bring up her teenage daughter. She was becoming increasingly rebellious. One night the police called to ask her to get her daughter from the police station, because she’d been arrested for drunk driving.
Not a word was spoken between them until the next
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 22, 2005
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When Martin Luther was printing his translation of the Bible in Germany, pieces of the printed Scripture fell to the floor. A young girl picked one of them up and read the phrase of our text, “For God so loved the world that he gave”. The rest of the sentence was missing. That moment for her was
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Contributed by W F on Jun 25, 2006
US golfer Arnold Palmer once played a series of exhibition matches in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi king was so impressed that he wanted to give Palmer a gift. Palmer said, “That really isn’t necessary, Your Highness. I’m honoured just to have been invited."
The king said, "I would be deeply upset, if
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Because I Have Been Given Much
By Grace Nowell Crowell
Because I have been given much, I too must give
Because of Thy great bounty Lord, each day I live.
I shall divide my gifts from Thee
With every brother that I see
Who has need of help from me.
Because I have been sheltered, fed, by Thy good
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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I read about a woman who was stopped by a policeman for going through a stop sign. He walked up to the side of the car, looked at her and said, "I’m going to have to give you a ticket you for going through a stop sign." She said, "You’ve got to be kidding. I didn’t drive through any stop sign. I
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Jesus said, "I am thirsty."
No wonder he was thirsty. Loss of blood. Exposure. Heat. Exhaustion. Dehydration. He’s been on the cross now for 6 hours. The sweat rolls off him like buckets. It’s hot. And the flies are buzzing around him. The crowds taunting him. The blood mixes with the sweat as it
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Contributed by Tom Shepard on Oct 22, 2007
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Soren Kierkagaard said, “I went into church and sat on the velvet pew. I watched as the sun came shining through the stained glass windows. The minister dressed in a velvet robe opened the golden gilded Bible, marked it with a silk bookmark and said, ‘If any man will be my disciple, said Jesus, let
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