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                    MOTHER’S DAY IS FAST APPROACHING and my mind went back many years ago to a TV program called, I Remember Moma (I guess I’m showing my age now).  It was broadcast from 1949 to 1957 on CBS.  It was a 30 minute show in black and white about a Norwegian-American family living in San Francisco in
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Thometz on Aug 27, 2012
                
                
                
                    I grew up in what I would consider, lower middle class. In the schools I went to as a kid there were really 3 levels of kids when it came to income. You had the rich kids. These kids had a Playstation AND N64, which were big when I was  kid. They had huge houses and a TV in every room. Then you had
                    
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                    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 22, 2023
                
                
                
                    
Can you believe it? Another year is in the books. I don’t know about you, but as magical and wonderful this time of year is, it is exhausting. I’m tired!
And the fact is that it’s not just this time of year. I find myself getting weary and tired often. Life is like that. It can wear you down.
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 9, 2025
                
                
                
                    [159].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GOOD SEED IN THE THORNY GROUND
This poem was written for a recent message in a series I am currently doing on the Parables of the Kingdom from Matthew 13.  It relates to the third soil type in the parable known as The Sower, {{Matthew 13:22 “The one on whom seed
                    
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                    Contributed by Alan Perkins on May 9, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    You’re probably familiar with the book "Moby Dick". Even if you’ve never read it, you know the story:  Captain Ahab goes in search of a great while whale, and is finally killed when the whale attacks and destroys his ship. But you probably didn’t know that this scene in Herman Melville’s novel was
                    
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                    Contributed by Julian Silva on Jan 9, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    While I was working in the V Corps Chaplain’s office in Frankfurt, Germany; I came in contact with many wonderful Christian individuals. One of the most inspiring was a German by the name of Carl Scholz. In speaking to him one day, he related to me of how that during the Second World War he served
                    
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                    Contributed by Lisa Delay on Aug 10, 2005
                
                
                
                    I looked about some more and saw a huge maple tree. Magnificent, tall and strong it had many leaves like a flowing royal garment. It was lush and full of gorgeous green foliage so not a branch could be seen. It was in all its glory. 
-Lisa DeLay, wrier and founder of wit4life.com
As I continued my
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Daffodil Story.
Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over." I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead. "I will come next Tuesday," I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.
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                    Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Dec 8, 2023
                
                
                
                    
“The Legend of Pepita’s Poinsettia”
Thank you much, my pretty friend,
For the beauty you display;
Those colors of green and red
Enhances our Christmas day.
 
Great is your reputation-
You’re like the Christmas Star,
For you are highly regarded,
No matter where you are.
 
You are called
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Sep 7, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [The Miraculous Human Body, Citation: Jeff Arthurs; references Dr. John Medina, genetic engineer, University of Washington, in 1995 lecture at Multnomah Bible College, Portland, Oregon]
The average human heart pumps over 1,000 gallons a day, over 55 million gallons in a lifetime. 
This is enough to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LISTENING TO US
While serving as Presbyterian missionaries in Lebanon Ben and Carol Weir learned a great deal about prayer when Ben was suddenly kidnapped by Shiite Muslim extremists in 1984. He was held in solitary confinement, in cramped quarters for sixteen months. Carol wondered whether she
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I am a skeptic about everything, including God and athiesm. I am not certain about issues of cosmology. Sometimes I believe that our universe is the result of random forces. Other times I believe that there must be some purpose or ordering force, though I do not begin to understand what or who it
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    OUR NATION’S GODLY HERITAGE
One of America’s well-known Colonial Americans began his career as a school teacher, using the Bible as his most valued textbook. Noah Webster was born in Connecticut and came of age during the American Revolution. He was educated at Yale University, and when he lacked
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Malone on Nov 19, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    CHECKOUT – these words from Buchanan about borderland, they are powerful and very  sobering;
Most Christian I know are stuck.  We feel caught in jobs we barely endure and often despise, in relationships that plunder us and deepen rather than remove our aloneness, in activities that are soul
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    If we want God to guide us, our attitude needs to be right. Here are some guidelines as to how we can play our part in arriving at right decisions.
First, we must be willing to think. It is false piety, super-supernaturalism of an unhealthy pernicious sort that demands inward impressions with no
                    
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