Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 28, 2023
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In December 1903, after many attempts, the Wright brothers were successful in getting their "flying machine" off the ground. Thrilled, they telegraphed this message to their sister Katherine: "We have actually flown 120 feet. Will be home for Christmas."
Katherine hurried to
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 28, 2025
[069]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – EVOLUTION OWNS NOT THE WORLD
Evolution is a nasty belief for it comes directly from Satan himself, and is a denial of the creation of God.
Don’t you think it is strategically planned that evolution is a fiercely held belief by atheists, humanists, most University
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 8, 2025
[101]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GOD OF SMALL THINGS
Some people like to think big. There is this fallacy that big is better, especially in the American culture. God does not work with big. He uses availability, particularly in His children.
I once preached on this topic showing that God uses
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 8, 2025
[106]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GOLGOTHA – WITH JESUS IN THE MIDST Easter Poem
This poem is an Easter poem constructed around the events played out at Golgotha. I called it Golgotha (the place of the skull) and not Calvary in the title because of this reason –
The word Calvary occurs in the
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 5, 2025
[121]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FROM WHERE DID GOD ORIGINATE?
The real title of this poem is HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND IN HIM ALL THINGS HOLD TOGETHER but the title is too long for SermonCentral to accept, so I changed the title.
This is a dialogue poem. There are 4 speakers. Speaker 1 is a
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 18, 2025
[230]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - REDEMPTION THROUGH DEATH – NO OTHER WAY
The concentration in this poem is “No other way.” Why did heaven’s best, God the Son, have to die? You know I can not answer that. The omniscient God knew from eternity past what was going to happen. I can’t give an answer
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 20, 2026
[269]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT
This is a short poem resulting from thinking about just what a small touch did. I can imagine this woman being hesitant and withdrawing in shyness, hoping she’d be cured but nor causing trouble. However the Lord knew all things. God knows
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Jun 26, 2002
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PRECIOUS DAD MOMENT
As ham sandwiches go, it was perfection. A thick slab of ham, a fresh bun, crisp lettuce and plenty of expensive, light brown, gourmet mustard. The corners of my jaw were aching in anticipation,
I carried it to the picnic table in our backyard, picked it up with both hands
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Dec 6, 2022
Several years ago, Redbook Magazine took a poll of students in Protestant seminaries. They found that 56% of the students in Protestant seminaries studying for the ministry rejected the idea of the virgin birth. The Survey Research Center of the University of California at Berkeley polled the
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 25, 2025
[090]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – SPECIFIC – FOR ELDERLY CHRISTIANS - THE THREE Ds
We come to the last poem in the 9 Part trilogy, and it is in the section SPECIFIC, addressed to Elderly Christians. Older Christians are the workhorse in the Church, plodding along for decades bearing the load. In
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 17, 2025
[133]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – I AM THE SON WHO IS BLESSED
This poem has as its basis the parable of the Lost Son sometimes called The Prodigal Son. The first two stanzas are set when the lost son returns home. He was lost because he was lost to sin and the degradation of that lifestyle.
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 17, 2025
[136]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – I’M JUST CHANGING RESIDENCE
I have lived in my current home for 45 years. Before that we lived in a home for 10 years. I have only ever owned two homes. Some people change homes like they change clothes.
When a Christian dies some say, “He has gone home to be
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 25, 2025
[142]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – IN OUR WEAKNESS HE GIVES STRENGTH
Creatures of dust we are and weak and frail in human strength. Many are the battles we can have and many are the storms that assail us. I do think Christians have a greater measure of these that people in the world because it is
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 2, 2026
[249]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – STRANGE DOCTRINES ARE AMONG US
[[ “Secernment” (third stanza) refers to the act or process of separating or distinguishing substances, often used in a physiological context to describe the secretion of substances in the body. It can also mean the ability to
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 7, 2026
[254]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST
This poem ends with the ascension of Christ in this passage – {{Acts 1:9-11 After He had said these things, HE WAS LIFTED UP while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight, and as they were gazing intently into the
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 8, 2026
[259]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE COLD FROSTY NIGHT REVEALS THE DAWN
The cold, frosty night is this current existence in the world where Christians live and are waiting for their Lord to come. The dawn is the coming of the Lord. A number of people correctly see this coming for the Church and
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Feb 27, 2026
[298]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE WORD OF GOD
This poem concentrates solely on the bible, the Word of God. Many images and metaphors are used for the bible and taken from God’s word.
STANZA 1. The introduction and the requests for living and teaching. Psalm 119 could fit into this.
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 2, 2026
[345]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - WICKEDNESS INCREASES IN THE LAST DAYS
( May 2026). This poem was written 5 years ago but conditions then were almost as bad as they are today. I think the difference is that they are more intense now and progress at a much greater rate.
It is the misled
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Dec 19, 2022
In a Christmas sermon, David Devine relates a story that appeared in the Washington Post last year... “He emerged from the Metro at the Plaza Station and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved
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