Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 6, 2024
[009]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - A TREE CLIMBER
Some people have a burning desire to go to see someone or some event important. Look how many turn out to a Trump rally, or a football final, or who go to see some vain film star.
However, some people have a real need and want to meet someone to see
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Contributed by Stephen Wright on Feb 11, 2006
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Leigh Richmond, in his "Dying Cottager," tells of his last visit to the death-bed of a young convert that he had led to Jesus. He asked the girl in the valley of the shadow what was her hope for eternity. Putting her thin, wasted fingers on the Bible that lay beside her she said, "Christ here!"
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 27, 2026
[323]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - VANITAS VANITATUM – PART 1 of 3
This poem begins with the story of a man who is committed to so many things but in the end he became worn out and finally could not find fulfillment in what he was doing. He began to despair and could not see the purpose of life.
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 10, 2003
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Pascal’s Night of Fire
Blaise Pascal was an influential scientist who lived in the 1600’s. He was something of a genius. For example, at the age of twelve, even before he had received any formal training in geomoetry, Pascal independently discovered and demonstrated Euclid’s thirty-two
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Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Feb 19, 2007
In 1987, I was called as a paramedic to a child hit by a car. As it turned out, it was one of my elders’ sons, Michael, who was only 5 years old. He was in critical condition with head injuries and needed to be transferred to a trauma center as soon as possible. I was still fairly new in my
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Contributed by Frank Carl on Mar 8, 2008
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“’Twas the Sunday before Easter”
‘Twas The Sunday Before Easter, And all through Israel’s House
There was planning and scheming by Herod the louse,
While palm leaves were waving o’er Christ’s lovely head
Just five days later, he’d be rejected and dead.
The children were running and leaping for
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 10, 2011
PHIL SHELDRAKE'S STORY
At the age of 14 Phil Sheldrake was invited by a school friend to attend an event called Festival ’89. The event was being held on Sun Corner in Billericay and hosted by the preacher J. John. That night, Phil came to find a personal faith in Jesus.
With his best friend,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
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THE TALE OF THE STAR
Eusebius, a scholarly church historian of the early fourth century, evidently made a considerable study of the literature available to him, and came to this conclusion about the star: "The star was new and a stranger among the usual lights of heaven, a strange star, not one
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2007
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The image of God in Human beings is like a sponge.
Sponges are useful creations. They are, we would say, Good.
But human beings after the fall are like a sponge that has been dipped in crude oil. The sponge is still there – it is still “good” but there is no where in the sponge that the oil is
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Imagine for a moment that you live in an old, run down, dilapidated shack. One like one you see on World Vision pictures from 3rd world countries – rusty metal kind of thrown over top of a couple walls full of holes. No running water. No toilet. Dirt on the floor when it is dry, mud when it is
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 24, 2004
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A.D. 110. Ignatius, overseer of the church in Antioch, was arrested and sent to Rome for preaching Christ. Facing martyrdom, he wrote this to the church at Rome.
“Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing of visible or invisible things so that I may but win Christ. Let fire and the cross,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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A small country church in Wisconsin has a special tradition that they have used at the close of their communion services for a number of years. It is adapted from an ancient Jewish closing of the Passover meal. Since it is the hope of every devout Jew to celebrate the Passover at least once in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
A.D. 110. Ignatius, overseer of the church in Antioch, was arrested and sent to Rome for preaching Christ. Facing martyrdom, he wrote this to the church at Rome.
“Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing of visible or invisible things so that I may but win Christ. Let fire and the cross,
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Aug 29, 2008
Charles Spurgeon wrote:
"Many people want to know their election before they look to Christ. But they cannot learn it thus; it is only to be discovered by 'looking unto Jesus.' Look to Jesus, believe on Him, and you shall make proof of your election directly, for as surely as you believe, you are
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Contributed by David Baeder on Nov 8, 2008
The Jews have this concept, when they celebrate the Passover, they are not only remembering the deliverance of their ancestors from Egypt, they are celebrating their own deliverance from Egypt. It is a concept of historical solidarity. The bible presents this same view in baptism and in the
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