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                    A Buzzard and a Humming bird fly over the same desert. One is looking for something dead and rotting. The other is looking for pretty,
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 18, 2025
                
                
                
                    [063].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DRUMMING AND HUMMING BECOME OBESE
This poem is not my usual style and I need to explain.  Imagine the beginnings of something that multiplies itself and grows louder and louder as it advances; then will take over because nothing can stop it . . . . except
                    
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                    Observations of a Father
•	I am going to share with you all my wisdom of four years of parenting
•	Okay let’s look at what the Bible says
•	When I had my first child I lost half of my memory, when I had my second child I lost the other half, when I had my third I lost another half I didn’t know I
                    
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                    "What the words meant was, in its own way, often deliciously funny enough, so much funnier seemed to me, at that almost forgotten time, the shape and shade and size and noise of
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Dec 23, 2011
                
                
                
                    Someone suggested to me recently that if money ever became tight I should consider becoming a joke writer for Christmas crackers. So, I turned to him and asked, "What did the grumpy sheep say when the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 19, 2017
                
                
                
                    For flowers that bloom about our feet,
Father, we thank Thee.
For tender grass so fresh, so sweet,
Father, we thank Thee.
For the song of bird and hum of bee,
For all things fair we hear
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 3, 2018
                
                
                
                    HoHum:
Not far from New York City there is a cemetery where there is a grave which has inscribed upon the headstone just one word- “Forgiven”  There is no name, no date of birth or death.  The stone is undecorated.  Just one word- “Forgiven”,
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 28, 2010
                
                
                
                    In 2007, The Pew Research Center did a follow up survey to one done in 1990 regarding what makes a marriage work and here is what they found:
	In 1990 95% of those surveyed said that faithfulness was the most important ingredient in making a marriage work. In 2007 that dropped slightly with
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 12, 2012
                
                
                
                    COME THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING
"Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" was written by Robert Robinson.  He wrote it early in his life.  In stanza three, Robinson speaks of being "prone to wonder, prone to leave the God I love". This seems to be a forecast of his later life, when he lapsed into sin,
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Dec 16, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Max Lucado, in his book, God Came Near, just after picturing the birth, describes what people were doing while this dramatic event occurred  undramatically. "Meanwhile, the city hums. The merchants are unaware that God has visited their planet. The innkeeper would never believe that he had just
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on May 11, 2007
                
                
                
                    A few blocks below my college was a restaurant that served only breakfast – and it was a great breakfast, cheap. What made this breakfast unique was that, except for the manager, everything was handled by mentally handicapped folks. They were the cooks, the waiters and waitresses, the busboy, the
                    
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                    LIVING DANGEROUSLY
Living dangerously.  That was one of many themes in Brennan Manning’s superb book The Signature of Jesus. Manning presents a radical alternative to the normal everyday, ho-hum, “comfort zone” mentality lived out by so many “so-called Christians.”  His final statement in the
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
                
                
                
                    Appropriate Church Behavior
In church last Sunday I noted a small child who was turning around smiling at everyone. He wasn’t gurgling, spitting, humming, tearing the hymnbooks, or rummaging through his mother’s handbag. He was just smiling. 
Suddenly his mother jerked him around, and in a stage
                    
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                    "I am your shield"  Genesis 15:8-16
This was exactly what Abram needed to hear.  He KNEW what a Shield was.  Remember that Abram had just returned from battle.  He probably owed his own life to the strength of his Shield.  
The shield is what absorbs the shock of the spear and sword. It repels
                    
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                    Contributed by C Jordan on Dec 14, 2007
                
                
                
                    QUOTE –GOD CAME NEAR:
“They were too busy. The day was upon them. The day’s bread had to be made. The morning’s chores had to be done. There was too much to do to imagine that the impossible had occurred. God had entered the world as a baby. Yet, were someone to chance upon the sheep stable on the
                    
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