Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 3, 2025
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[097]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GATES OF HESITATION
This poem tells a story. Jesus told His listeners something – {{Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter by the narrow gate for THE GATE IS WIDE and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many are those who enter by it, for THE GATE IS SMALL and the way
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 21, 2003
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I have an old tape by a group called One Bad Pig, a Christian thrash-metal group. About the most obnoxious kind of music available. Anyway, there’s one song on it called "Man in Black", with Johnny Cash being the guest vocalist. It’s quite a blend of country and metal.
At the very end of the
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 24, 2004
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The Juggler
A juggler, driving to his next performance, is stopped by the police. “What are those machetes doing in your car?” asks the cop.
“I juggle them in my act.”
“Oh, yeah?” says the doubtful cop. “Let’s see you do it.” The juggler gets out and starts tossing and catching the knives.
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Max Lucado writes in God Came Near “One New Year’s Day, in the Tournament of Roses parade, a beautiful float suddenly sputtered and quit. It was out of gas. The whole parade was held up until someone could get a can of gas. The amusing thing was this float represented the Standard Oil Company. With
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Contributed by Barry Edmondson on Aug 10, 2008
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A WALK BY FAITH
I have a friend in Alaska. Some years ago he was a rising executive in a large, influential business. Then God spoke to him to quit his job and go to full-time Bible college. He did so, with no guarantees and no looking back.
After he finished Bible college, to the amazement of
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Contributed by Bruce Ball on Mar 29, 2013
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THE NEW GUY
We all need real hope. There were four ladies in a nursing home one time that were sitting there talking, and the nurse brings in a new man to the facility. He was quite dapper for an older man, and one of the ladies asked him where he had been for so long.
He responded by saying he
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009
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DEATH MAKES PEOPLE ANGRY
Back in September of 2004, Casey Neistat of New York City discovered that the battery in his first-generation 5 GB iPod could no longer hold a charge for more than an hour. So he called Apple. Unfortunately for him, Apple basically advised him to buy a new iPod (their
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Contributed by Noel Atkinson on Aug 3, 2009
NOW YOU KNOW HOW TO TREAT HIM
A true story, a friend of mine 'John' was new at a company. He was told be careful with the new photocopier it gets hot and can melt overheads when you put them through the photocopier. So treat it carefully.
On his third week there he stayed back late and
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Contributed by Tammy Garrison on Jul 14, 2010
NOT EVERYTHING IS GONE
As I was putting this message together his past Monday evening, I got a phone call. It was the police department. I serve as one of their chaplains, and they called me to respond to a house fire. A woman was found dead inside, and her husband had just arrived on the scene,
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
BILLY GRAHAM: THE IRRECOVERABLE MOMENT
In his autobiography, Just as I Am, Billy Graham tells about a conversation he had with John F. Kennedy shortly after his election:
"On the way back to the Kennedy house, the president-elect stopped the car and turned to me. 'Do you believe in the Second
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Contributed by Doug Fannon on Mar 2, 2020
When I was the Sunday School director for the church I belonged to in New Mexico over 30 years ago, I remember asking one gentleman, an older, and supposedly a mature Christian, if he would teach a Sunday School class. I received the standard "churchy" answer I have heard time and time
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 13, 2001
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"We become vulnerable when we love people and go out of our way to help them."
That’s what the wealthy industrialist Charles Schwab declared after going to court and winning a nuisance suit at age 70. Given permission by the judge to speak to the audience, he made the following statement:
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 13, 2006
"In a Harvard study of several hundred preschoolers, researchers discovered an interesting phenomenon. As they taped the children’s playground conversation, they realized that all the sounds coming from little girls’ mouths were recognizable words. However, only 60 percent of the sounds coming from
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In his book entitled "A Gentle Thunder" Max Lucado says, "Once there was a man who dared God to speak; Burn the bush like You did for Moses, God. And I will follow. Collapse the walls like you did for Joshua, God. And I will fight. Still the waves like you did on Galilee, God. And I will
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Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Jan 16, 2005
I had something to look forward to
The story is told of a muti-millionaire businessman who greatly changed the lives of a sixth-grade class in a poor downtrodden housing area. This was an area where most of the students would not finish formal schooling.
He had been asked to speak to a class
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ILLUSTRATION - "I had something to look forward to."
The story is told of a muti-millionaire businessman who greatly changed the lives of a sixth-grade class in a poor downtrodden township. This was an area where most of the students would not finish formal schooling.
He had been asked to
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Charismatic
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