Contributed by Garris Hudson on Oct 13, 2024
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Port Royal once situated on the island of Jamaica has been called “the richest and wickedest city in the world."
It was the natural rendezvous for most of the pirates of the Caribbean.
Liquor, women prostitutes, homosexual rendezvous, gambling, dope – every vice thrived in Port Royal “in
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Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jan 20, 2025
I may have mentioned this previously to some of you that as a teen I was not able to even read a passage from a book in class, I could read, but to read out loud was something else, I was very insecure having been told at a young age, around 9 or 10 that I was hopeless and would never amount to
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 19, 2022
ON AN AMERICAN TROOPSHIP during World War II a new Chaplain came aboard. The rank and file of the sailors met him and they put to him this question, "Do you believe in Hell?" The Chaplain was a modernist and an unbeliever, and he said, "Men, certainly not." The men looked at
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 3, 2025
[096]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN
This poem is one of rhyming couplets and the theme is “now on earth, but looking towards being in heaven with the Lord.”
Do you love the world? Well my answer is yes and no. I absolutely love the world, that is, the creation in the world.
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 18, 2025
[108]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GRACE IS THE KEY TO HOLINESS
This is a poem that has to be read carefully for understanding because of the construct of the poem. The subject is certainly GRACE, but grace can never be in isolation. There is a strong but harmonising relationship with LOVE,
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 17, 2008
There once was a weak and sickly man. The man was so sick and he could not afford going to town to the doctor. The man lived in the deep back woods in an old log cabin, his condition seemed to grow worse. Out in front of his cabin was a huge boulder. The rock was massive in front of his place. One
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Contributed by N A on Nov 22, 2009
“The Pharisees have taken His Sabbath and loaded it up with more than 1,500 nitpicky rules and regulations. They took a good gift from God and made it into an unbearable burden for the people to live under… Let’s keep the Sabbath as a good gift. Let’s not make up our own Pharisaical laws and
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Contributed by Henry Maxey on Jan 3, 2001
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Truett Cathy, founder or Chick-fil-A shows he know what Jesus Would Do. Since 1948 he has lost millions of dollars because he will not have the restaurants open on Sunday. He has cared for children by developing the foster home system called WinShape Homes. His favorite truisms is "It’s easier to
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Contributed by Gene Barron on Mar 1, 2001
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The great violinist, Nicole Pagannini, willed his marvelous violin to Genoa, the city of his birth, only on the condition that it not be played. It is a peculiar wood in that as long as the violin is used and handled, it shows little wear. As soon as it is discarded, the wood begins to decay.
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jun 28, 2001
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The importance of really living the Christian life is illustrated in the life of the famous author Mark Twain. Church leaders were largely to blame for his becoming hostile to the Bible and the Christian faith. As he grew up, he knew elders and deacons who owned slaves and abused them. He heard men
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Contributed by Mark Busch on Apr 20, 2006
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Bono, lead singer of U2
You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth . . . And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that “as you reap, so you will sow” stuff. Grace defies reason
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 30, 2006
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“I’ve become convinced that the problem with believing the Bible is not based on what we don’t understand about the Bible – but it’s based on what we do understand about the Bible.
“What we do understand challenges everything about us. Jesus calls us to follow him, and that means we have to give
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Contributed by Steve Smith on Jan 6, 2007
I read one time about how shipbuilders back in the days of sailboats would prepare the masts for their ships. They would go to the forest and find an appropriate tree, then they would clear out all the surrounding trees and leave that one standing, leaving it exposed to the wind and storms.
As the
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