Contributed by Joo-Ching Chng on Dec 30, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One raw winter night a farmer heard an irregular thumping sound against his kitchen storm door. He went to a window and watched as tiny, shivering sparrows, attracted to the evident warmth inside, beat in vain against the glass.
Touched, the farmer bundled up and trudged through fresh snow to open
                    
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                    Contributed by Joo-Ching Chng on Jan 1, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One raw winter night a farmer heard an irregular thumping sound against his kitchen storm door. He went to a window and watched as tiny, shivering sparrows, attracted to the evident warmth inside, beat in vain against the glass.
Touched, the farmer bundled up and trudged through fresh snow to open
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Intelligent design
...imagine you are driving through South Dakota and suddenly come upon a mountain bearing the unmistakable likenesses of four American presidents, looking just as you remember from your history books.  Would you, would anyone, conclude that these shapes were the product of wind
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "If you are lucky, sooner or later there will be a swirl or a double swirl where the trout strikes and misses and strikes again, and then the old, deathless thrill of the plunge of the rod and the irregular plunging, circling, cutting up stream and
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 8, 2020
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Sept. 1 2020 (UPI) -- An American Airlines pilot preparing to land in Los Angeles reported an unusual encounter at about 3,000 feet with a "guy in a jetpack."
A recording of the conversation between the pilot and air traffic control Sunday evening at Los Angeles International Airport
                    
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                    Contributed by Alan Stokes on Mar 4, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Fulton J. Sheen has written these words from the heart, “The human heart is not shaped like a valentine heart, perfect and regular in contour; it is slightly irregular in shape as if a small piece of it were missing out of its side.   That missing part...may very well man that when God created each
                    
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                    Contributed by Dru Ashwell on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Reasons Why God Was Never Given Tenure At Any American University
1. He had only one major publication.
2. It was written in a foreign language.
3. He quoted no references.
4. It wasn’t published in a certified journal.
5. Some doubted that He actually wrote it.
6. Sure He created the world,
                    
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                    John Ortberg wrote the book, "Everyone is Normal Until You Get To Know Them." John stated on pages 13, 14:
In certain stores you will find a section of merchandise available at greatly reduced prices. The tip-off is a particular tag you will see on all the items in that area. Each tag carries the
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Mar 25, 2008
                
                
                
                    Like most of us, I am sure that you can remember the scenes of brutality made against Jesus’ character in that film; the derided trials of Caiaphas, Pilate and Herod; the shredding of His flesh and muscle through the scourging by Roman centurions; the excruciating crucifixion between two common
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
                
                
                
                    My mother has a fairly rare heart condition known as Hypertropic Cardiomyopathy. It is a disease of the muscle of the heart in which a portion of the muscle of the heart is thickened without any obvious cause. It’s a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in any age group and causes disabling
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 17, 2006
                
                
                
                    	We should not be frustrated by mysteries; we should delight in them.  We don’t have to figure everything out.  In an essay titled “Meditation in a Toolshed,” C. S. Lewis describes an experience he had inside a dark toolshed.  The sun was brilliantly shining outside, but inside the shed only a
                    
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                    Contributed by Alan Tison on Feb 27, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    To have strong relationships in the body of Christ we must deal with our brokenness. 
How do we deal with brokenness?
Individually – Realize we are all broken people. 
In many stores you find merchandise in a certain section marked with a 2 word phrase. This 2 word phrase is a is a tip off about
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 28, 2025
                
                
                
                    [214].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - PAUL’S  PRISON
This is my oldest surviving poem.  I had parts of others but they are gone.  The poem came about when thinking of Paul in prison in Rome.  Everything seemed against him there, but he was never forsaken by God of course.
When Paul was in prison he
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 1, 2025
                
                
                
                    [152].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – JESUS CHRIST IS ALL IN ALL IN ALL MATTERS
This is the only poem I have written this way.  It is quite unusual as you see with scattered words that rhyme, and play on words.  I think of it as one long thread with all these points hanging from it.
I don’t expect
                    
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