Contributed by Curtis Kittrell on Sep 23, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was a rabbi on a journey with the prophet Elijah. They walked all day, and at nightfall they came to the humble cottage of a poor man, whose only treasure was a cow. The poor man ran out of his cottage, and his wife ran too, to welcome the strangers for the night and to offer them all the
                    
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                    Contributed by Brent Charles on Oct 5, 2006
                
                
                
                    In ancient China, the people desired security from the barbaric hordes to the north, so they built the great Chinese wall. It was so high they knew no one could climb over it and so thick that nothing could break it down. They settled back to enjoy their security. During the first 100 years of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Sep 24, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    John N. Oswalt, professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages, Asbury Theological Seminary (Wilmore, Kentucky): “Isaiah calls to mind historic events which would give credence to the eschatological [last times, end times, judgement] hope. Gideon and his people, faced by an oppressive horde,
                    
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                    OVERCOMING THE GREAT WALL
  In ancient China, the people wanted to defend themselves from the barbaric hordes in the North and they built the Great Wall of China.  It was too high to climb over, too thick to break down, and too long to go around.  Very secure. 
  Yet during the first hundred years
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Bible scholar and author D. A. Carson tells of a time when he and a friend were going to the beach for some much-needed peace and quiet, but when they got there they found a horde of high school kids celebrating graduation with lots of beer, loud music and, shall we say, public displays of
                    
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                    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jun 18, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Just watched a movie called “The Day After Tomorrow” and in that movie you see people evacuated from the US to Mexico because of natural disasters hitting the US. Mexico couldn’t handle the hordes of people fleeing the States crossing the Rio Grande, they closed the borders. Next you see folks
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Miller on Jan 4, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SACRIFICIAL LOVE:
(Poem by Ruth Bell Graham)
Had I been Joseph’s mother
I’d have prayed
protection from his brothers
"God, keep him safe. 
He is so young, 
so different from  
the others." 
Mercifully, 
she never knew 
there would be slavery 
and prison too.
Had I been Moses’ mother 
I’d have
                    
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                    There is an old story that has been around for quite some time about a man who gained some insight into the world of the devil and his evil ploys.  On the throne was the devil himself and he was addressing his horrible hordes.  With a loud voice, he cried out, “Who will go to the earth and persuade
                    
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                    Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Feb 12, 2019
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Try to imagine this. It is the year 1944 and Germany is at war with England.
Now suppose you have dual citizenship in both Germany and England and you are living in Germany. How will you be treated?
Conversely, suppose you have dual citizenship in both Germany and England and you are living in
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 24, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A few years ago my mom began feeding the birds on a regular basis in our backyard. At first, some of the birds were greedy. They weren’t sure if there would be enough food to go around. The starlings were especially mean, which doesn’t surprise anyone familiar with birds. They would attack the
                    
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                    Contributed by Dennis Jones on May 28, 2007
                
                
                
                    CALLING OTHERS TO GOD
A few years ago a man began feeding the birds on a regular basis in our backyard. At first, some of the birds were greedy. They weren’t sure if there would be enough food to go around. The starlings were especially mean, which doesn’t surprise anyone familiar with birds. They
                    
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                    Contributed by Dennis Jones on May 28, 2007
                
                
                
                    CALLING OTHERS TO GOD
A few years ago a man began feeding the birds on a regular basis in our backyard. At first, some of the birds were greedy. They weren’t sure if there would be enough food to go around. The starlings were especially mean, which doesn’t surprise anyone familiar with birds. They
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Johnson on May 13, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When Judi, Kathryn, Mary and I moved into the new house I began feeding the birds on a regular basis in our yard. The only birds we had at the other house were cactus wrens, quail and doves. We not only have those three but now we have robins, hummingbirds, finches, cardinals, and sparrows. At
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Adams on Jan 1, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I have a friend in Nashville who had two very different sets of grandparents.  On his father’s side, his grandfather had worked in factories, and had spent all his life saving money vigorously.  They seldom traveled, though they bought a nice farm and a large house in another state.  They stayed
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 27, 2010
                
                
                
                    BACK TO REALITY---It was 2:00 in the morning, freezing cold, and we were huddled together under the only streetlight for at least 100 miles. There we were, in the middle of the Sinai desert, waiting in an empty lot behind St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox Monastery, with high stone walls, St.
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 20, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Spiritual Manna
How many can remember the story of the children of Israel gathering Manna every morning accept on the Sabbath to find the sustenance needed to make their spiritual journey from Egypt to the Land of Promise?
We are told that they first of all began to murmur among themselves about
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 9, 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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