Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 16, 2025
[202]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – PICTURES FROM A COUNTING SONG – (PART 2)
THIS SECOND PART OF THE POEM IS PART 2. IT CONTINUES FROM THE PREVIOUS POST.
“ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE” OR “1, 2, BUCKLE MY SHOE” is a counting song dating back to late 18th century in the USA. It was heard for the first
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Contributed by John Harvey on Sep 10, 2006
Introduction: Risks can be scary. Risks can be life-changing and exhilarating, or they can be disasters. Some risks are easy to take and others come with considerable calculation of the costs. One constant thing about life is that we are going to encounter risks.
Risks scare me. Some risks that I
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DAD-ISMS
Here are a few dad-isms from a recent website I visited -
"Get in and get out."
This applied to an open back door or refrigerator. Just because you don’t pay the gas and electric bills, that doesn’t mean you should waste energy, he’d tell us as we alternately let the cold air into the
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Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 31, 2012
GOD STEPS IN WHERE OUR FATHERS FAIL
John Eldredge, author of Wild At Heart and Fathered By God among others, writes of fishing with his dad as a boy. Spending hours together on a Saturday morning trying to catch fish. "But" he writes, "the fish were never the issue. What I longed for was his
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Make that same commitment to Jesus Christ this moment, and that assurance will be yours too. You will be prepared to meet your God. Remember and live by the immortal words of P. H. Harding in his awesome poem “Only One Life”:
Two little lines I heard one day, Traveling along life’s busy way;
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Methodist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 15, 2010
Alfred Souza observed, “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time to still be served, a debt to be
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jan 23, 2004
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“The Spirit’s empowerment is what allows us to exhibit what He wants – the love, the unity, the sacrifice, the selflessness, the exhibition of the covenantal relationship between Christ and the church, etc. But that means walking with and submitting to the Spirit. To the degree that I / we do
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Contributed by Jerry Flury on Apr 30, 2006
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A U.S. Lutheran bishop tells of visiting a parish church in California and finding a stirring red and orange banner on the wall. “Come Holy Spirit. Hallelujah!” it declared in words printed under a picture of a fire burning. The bishop was also
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Contributed by Kraig Pullam on Oct 22, 2006
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Indeed, it is true, that being a Christian believer without being faithful to the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is like:
- A student who will not go to school
- A soldier who will not join the army
- A salesman without customers
- An author without
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We don’t want to do things that make the devil glad, makes the Holy Spirit sad, or dooms our brother or sister to feeling bad. Rather, we want to make the devil run, magnify the Son, and learn
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 13, 2007
Bill Hybels, Senior Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois was mentoring five senior pastors. When he started the session with the question concerning their greatest need they all gave the same answer – How can they
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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It’s like the pastor who told a colleague “I have 800 members in my church” “How many are active?” his friend enquired. “All of them” came the reply “600 are active for the Lord and the rest are
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