Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 29, 2025
                
                
                
                    
Rest in the LORD
This is David's message to us in Psalm 37:7-11, where he said:
7. Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.
8. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; Do not fret -- it
                    
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                    Text, 1 Samuel 17:20-21, KJV: 20And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. 21For Israel and the Philistines had put the
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Apr 13, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Hebrew writer wrestled with that question too: "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." (Hebrews 11:6). Recently I had telephoned my mother to tell her that I was going to be
                    
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                    Because the city of Pergamum was the capital of Asia it was the administrative home of the Roman Governor. Roman governors were divided into two categories those who had the “Right of the Sword” and those who didn’t. Those who had the “Right of the Sword” literally had the power of life and death,
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Mar 28, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    DYING WAS MORE USEFUL THAN LIVING
In the 4th Century there was a Christian called Telemachus who decided that the only way to protect himself from the corruption of the world and to serve God was to become a hermit and live in the desert.
One day as he rose from his knees, it dawned on him that
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 27, 2009
                
                
                
                    WHO WAS WEAK AND WHO WAS STRONG?
April 6, 1994 marked the beginning of dark and infamous days for Rwanda, a small country in central Africa.  For the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia — mostly  using clubs and machetes. It was a genocide of monumental proportions,
                    
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                    Contributed by Benjamin Karner on Sep 18, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    40 MEN DIE FOR CHRIST
One such story took place in 328 B.C. in a city high in the icy mountains of Armenia.     
    It was a bitterly cold winter and in the middle of that winter an order came from the Roman emperor that every man, woman, and child under the rule of his empire must bow down to
                    
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                    This is a story about a painting in a famous art gallery in France. The painting depicts two chess players, one of whom is Satan, who appears arrogantly confident, and the other is a man who looks forlorn. If Satan wins, he wins the man's soul. (The painting is now popularly known as
                    
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                    3.	Lets remember His sacrifice:
a.	The world drew the first blood. They cried “Crucify Him!”, “Crucify Him!”. They craved, desired, and sought to make him bleed. Why, because he healed them? Why, because he gave them hope and a future? Why, because he gave them the words of life and not death? Why,
                    
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                    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 2, 2009
                
                
                
                    SHEPHERDLESS SHEEP
How pitiful shepherdless sheep are! Shepherdless sheep become easy prey for wolves, coyotes, and other predators. They can’t outrun them. They can’t outfight them. And what wolf would be scared off by a bleating: baaa? Sheep are left torn and bloodied and dead without a
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Feb 19, 2025
                
                
                
                    [031]  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – BEFORE HIM LAY THE CROSS
We have a retrospective view of the cross in a very limited understanding, but the Lord’s view in the Garden of gethsemane was a forward one.  The anticipation of that ordeal was a dreadful one.  That comes out in the description and this
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 6, 2025
                
                
                
                    [155].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – JESUS ELEVATED IN THE MIDST
Not I, but Christ.  That is how it ought to be.  That is the emphasis we need to have in our living and ministry.  I am nothing without my Lord.  If I think I am something I am deluded.  If I think the ability is mine I am a disgrace. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Chris Surber on Jan 3, 2009
                
                
                
                    As a teenager I spent two years living in Butte, Montana.  Butte is nestled high in the Rocky Mountains in a small valley which rests directly in the shadow of the great continental divide; a massive mountain range which stretches from New Mexico through Colorado – where its highest peaks reside –
                    
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