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                    [209].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – OUR PILGRIM JOURNEY HOME
Here is an explanation – The title of this poem expresses the walk and life of a Christian who lives for a short time in this world and then is called home.  There is a slight touch of Bunyan’s Pilgrim Progress here.
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                    INTRODUCTION
Story: He Knew the Shepherd
1. Three men gave a presentation from the 23rd Psalms. 
It went like this,
a. The first man read from the Psalms with superb diction, clarity, and reverence. The audience stood up and gave him a standing ovation.
b. The second man quoted the entire Psalms
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jul 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [Lessons from a Tavern, Citation: Charles Swindoll, Leadership, Vol. 4, no. 1.]
An old Marine Corps buddy of mine, to my pleasant surprise, came to know Christ after he was discharged. 
I say surprise because he cursed loudly, fought hard, chased women, drank heavily, loved war and weapons, and
                    
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                    Contributed by Joel Pankow on May 3, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jackie Chan movie.  This man is very innovative in the way that he makes fight scenes.  Instead of just using normal karate chops and the like, he will use common every day items and create unbelievable fight scenes with them.  In one scene, he fights off dozens of men with a common every day step
                    
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                    A young couple visited a boarding care home which housed children for adoption. The care taker brought out all the children who were clean (recently bathed), well dressed, properly schooled in manners; for this couple’s inspection and selection. As they passed down the line and spoke to each child,
                    
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                    STOLEN ART
I was surprised to learn that if you had a museum that contained the world’s stolen art, it would be one of the biggest in the world. It would contain 174 Rembrandt’s, 43 Van Gogh’s, over 500 Picassos, and works by Renoir and da Vinci. You may remember that a few years back someone
                    
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                    There is a wonderful story in a book entitled, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., which was based on Dr. King’s speeches and writings. On one occasion he told of growing up in Atlanta, Georgia:
"I remember another experience I used to have in Atlanta. I went to high school on the
                    
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                    A married couple was reflecting on their 50th wedding anniversary and all of the great times they had been blessed to share together through the years.  The husband was sitting in his recliner and the wife was sitting in her recliner.
“You know something,” she said, “things have really changed
                    
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                    "A friend of mine, Bud Wood, founded Shepherds Home in Wisconsin for boys and girls with developmental disabilities. The original ministry opened its doors in 1964 to 36 children, providing them a loving residential environment and a school that would focus on their unique needs, helping them
                    
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                    When a little boy in a suburban Philadelphia Sunday School class was asked where Jesus was born, he quickly answered, "Philadelphia!"
The teacher said, "No, try again."
The little boy thought about the question and said, "How about Pittsburgh?"
When the teacher
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 24, 2025
                
                
                
                    [234].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - RIGID TREES ARE OUR EXAMPLE
Trees are a wonderful aspect of God’s creation and they are the mightiest organic structures on earth, discounting the great coral reefs.  This poem is not about trees in general, but specific trees.
Those are the ones that are often
                    
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                    In the 1950s, the Communist Party was discovered to have an agenda to overthrow the U.S.A.  This Communist agenda was entered into the 1963 U.S. Congressional Record and consisted of 45 goals to undermine and change American culture and politics. The plan of Communism has been to destroy our nation
                    
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                    His name is Bill. He has wild hair, wears a T-shirt with holes in it, jeans and no shoes. This was literally his wardrobe for his entire four years of
college. He is intelligent. Kind of esoteric and very, very bright.
He became a Christian while attending college.  Across the street from the
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Palmer on Oct 14, 2018
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                          In 1980 I was hired as a City Police Officer in a small Midwest town with a population of 2200. The first week on duty we closed an investigation of a local man who held a position in the School system. He had gained the confidence of the parents, students, and the community. After a traffic
                    
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                    "Too many Christians are “’tweeners”: they live between Egypt and Canaan, saved but never satisfied;  they live between Good Friday and Easter, believing in the Cross but not entering into the power and glory of the Resurrection.  It is clear, then, that the believer cannot deliberately be
                    
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