Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 6, 2024
[010] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - A TRIBUTE TO OUR MOTHERS - MOTHERS' DAY
I was asked to write a poem for Mothers’ Day and this is it. I forget the context of it now but it had something to do with a children’s group in a church.
ORIGINS AND IMPLICATIONS OF MOTHERS’ DAY
The origins,
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 16, 2025
[201]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – PEACE IN LIFE’S STORMS
We may say things and write things, then one day God may put us to the test. Just as I am writing an introduction for this poem – just today in 2025, a problem has arisen for one of my family, and caused by satanic workings of a certain
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Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012
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PURE WHITE
A little girl went to the countryside on holiday. The cabin where she stayed was next to a grassy hillside on which sheep grazed. She had never seen sheep before. The girl could look from the front door of the cottage and see the sheep milling around on the slope of green. She exclaimed
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us when we were down on Romney Marsh – and he went for a drive with Maddy.
When he came home, he said to me: “Dad, is Mum all right?”
“Yes”, I replied “Why do you ask?”
“Well”, Jez replied “When we were driving across the Marsh and we came to some black sheep – Mum called them “rainbow “sheep.
I
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Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 14, 2008
Phillip Keller drew from his many years as a shepherd to write, A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, a book many Christians find beneficial. In one place he describes “cast” sheep: “This is an old English shepherd’s term for a sheep that has turned over on its back and cannot get up again by itself…. Even
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 14, 2009
LET THE LOVE OF CHRIST MOVE YOU
I’ve met this guy that I will call Bob. Bob just recently got out of prison. He got caught up in using and did some stupid stuff. He was sent for prison. He had been trying do right and do good but he just got out of control. He was sorry about what he had done and
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Contributed by Joel Pankow on Apr 30, 2004
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In a movie classic - National Lampoon’s Vacation - Chevy Chase - otherwise known as Clark Griswold - leads his family across the country to their dream vacation at Wally World. Along the way, Clark gets lost several times. One time happened to be in St. Louis. After several wrong turns, the
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Contributed by James Steen on Jul 14, 2008
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Saving a Sheep
I had an unusual experience last week as I was driving into church. Down the road and at the bottom of the hill from my house lies a sheep farm. As I was driving by, I noticed a lone sheep in the pasture, just standing there with a plastic feed bag over his head and down around his
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ON SHEPHERDS
"Let me tell you a bit about shepherds. They were the last people you’d expect God to take notice of. First of all, they were religious outcasts. According to Jewish religious law, these men were unclean. Their line of work prevented them from participating in the feasts and holy days
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Contributed by John Harvey on Dec 7, 2006
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Take for instance the story of Shrek. Now this is not about an ogre who is friends with a talking donkey, but about a wild sheep in New Zealand. Shrek was a young sheep when he escaped form his shepherd. This is not an uncommon occurrence, because sheep are notorious for wandering off. What is
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Contributed by Rob Short on Apr 7, 2001
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In 1994, two Christian missionaries answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics in a large orphanage. About 100 boys and girls who had been abandoned, abused, and left in the care of a government-run program were in the orphanage.
It was nearing
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Contributed by David Goering on Aug 24, 2018
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Your family and one of your best friends families has decided to go camping, but you forgot to bring a container for water, on your way to the campsite your friend sees a container in the ditch he stops and picks it up, it has a skull and crossbones on the outside of the container, it says poison
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 26, 2004
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I love Phillip Keller’s details about a “cast-down” sheep and what the shepherd does to get him back on his feet. “When sheep lay on their back, gas begins to collect in their stomach. It hardens the stomach, cuts off the air passage and they suffocate. Not only that, their legs go numb in that
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