Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 12, 2025
                
                
                
                    [055].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DEATH FOR THE CHRISTIAN
We deal with a subject today we often like to forget about.  When we are young we give it little thought but when we are old, it tends to preoccupy our minds a lot more.
This poem is not so much about the subject of death itself, as it is
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Nov 25, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Most churches do a good job of getting people to first base or maybe even second base. People will receive Christ, be baptized and join the church (that’s getting them to first base). Some churches also do an excellent job of helping believers develop the habits that lead to spiritual maturity
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Sep 10, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Lawyer and statesman Daniel Webster was a powerful orator who gave early evidence of his quick mind and way with words. One day Webster’s father, who was to be absent from home, left Daniel and his brother Ezekiel specific work instructions. But on his return he found the task still undone, and
                    
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                    Contributed by Victor Yap on Mar 20, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    It’s been said that the six most important words in communications and human relations are “I admit that I was wrong.?Counting down, the five most important words are “You did a great job.?The four most important words are “What do you think??The three most important word are “May I help??The two
                    
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                    Frank Herbert, the author of Dune has a mantra called the Shai-Hulud and goes.
I must not fear. 
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it is gone past me I will turn to see
                    
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                    Chilton notes, "The sheepfold Jesus was thinking about was an open space surrounded by a wall, with but one opening and here the shepherd took up His position as the door. It was this that the sheep literally and actually came in and out through Him.  Thus they were watched over, cared for, counted
                    
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                    The chief executive of a large and successful chain of stores made a striking statement about the future of his company. He said that a hundred years from now it would be either greatly changed or nonexistent. The same can be said about any church. If a church fails to change with the times it will
                    
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                    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 23, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The article "What Good Is a Tree?" in Reader’s Digest explained that when the roots of trees touch, there is a substance present that reduces competition. 
In fact, this unknown fungus helps link roots of different trees--even of dissimilar species. 
A whole forest may be linked together. 
If one
                    
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                    “If you’re speeding down the freeway, the police might pull you over.  But no one ever makes you take pit stops.  You have to choose them.  It’s the same with life.  Emergencies force us to stop, but pit stops of joy are events we plan for and savor.  It’s good to let go and bring a little relief
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Oct 24, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A lady called the police and said she had a skunk in her basement and she needed help getting it out of her house.  The police said to lay a trail of bread crumbs from the basement to outside in the yard and then leave her doors open.  Sure enough, the skunk followed the bread crumbs and left. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 2, 2005
                
                
                
                    There was a little boy who was so crippled that he could not open his Bible, which he had always had before him. A gentleman asked him why he was so fond of reading it. "I like to read the Bible," said the boy, "because it tells me of Jesus Christ." The gentleman asked, "Do you think you have
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A recent survey by America’s most popular teen magazine revealed that only 4.1% of the teenage girls in America feel they could to go their father to talk about a serious problem. Even more recently, USA Today published the eye-opening results of a study of teens under stress. When asked where they
                    
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