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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One man I admire greatly is Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941)
Maximilian Kolbe was a Catholic priest, who was put in a Nazi concentration camp for his faith.
On May 28, 1941, he was transferred to the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
During his time there, he would share his meagre rations of food
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Contributed by Jeremy Houck on Sep 10, 2005
Ruby was born in the Delta region of the Mississippi River in 1954. Also in 1954 the Supreme Court heard a case called Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education. After the arguments were made, the high court ruled that separate but equal education for blacks and whites while it was separate it was in no
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Contributed by Jeff Skinner on Dec 4, 2005
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One of America’s greatest poets is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The year 1860 found Longfellow happy in his life, enjoying a widening recognition, and elated over the election of Abraham Lincoln which he believed signaled the triumph of freedom and redemption for the nation.
The following year the
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War often brings out the good in people, in a way that we could never imagine.
One such man was Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941)
Maximilian Kolbe was a Roman Catholic priest, who was put in a Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz for his faith.
In the camp, he would share his meagre rations of food
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I am neither a liberal theologian nor a feminist believing that God is both Father and Mother to us, but many of the finest traits of motherhood we find in Him who is our Everlasting Father. Jesus, our Everlasting Father, uses the imagery of a mother hen in describing his desire to care for the
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In Paul's day, every city in Greece built a public place called the Bema, or “judgment seat”. It was from this raised platform, usually in the center of town, that official announcements were made, judgments rendered and commendations handed out. All public proclamations came from this Bema
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 28, 2025
GOOD FOOD FROM THE GOOD SHEPHERD
This is David's message to us in Psalm 37:1-3, where the KJV says:
1. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
2. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3. Trust in
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 18, 2025
[169]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – LESSONS WE LEARN FROM SPIDERS
The word “spider” is mentioned in the Old Testament in the following verses, all of which have a common theme –
{{Job 8:13 “So are the paths of all who forget God, and the hope of the godless will perish, whose confidence is fragile,
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Contributed by Tim George on Feb 5, 2001
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A recent request for sick leave to the U.S.S. Saratoga read: Dear Captain, When I got home I found that my father’s brick silo had been struck by lightning, knocking some of the bricks off at the top. I decided to fix the silo, and so I rigged up a beam, with a pulley and whip at the top of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2002
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YOU’RE NOT OLD UNLESS YOU CAN REMEMBER...
...being sent to the drugstore to test vacuum tubes for the TV.
...when Kool-Aid was the only other drink for kids, other than milk and sodas.
...when there were two types of sneakers for boys: high tops and low tops.
...when boys couldn’t wear
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
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LET THE WALLS COME DOWN!
One of the greatest all-time blunders in history took place in East Germany. Erich Honecker, the iron-fisted East German leader, stepped down due to an illness and was replaced by a reformer, Egon Krenz. Just before a news conference, with mass demonstrations in Berlin
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