Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 30, 2025
[236]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - ROMANS 5 EXPLORATION
The book of Romans is considered to be The Gospel According to Paul, and is the most theological book in the New Testament. Chapter 5 is one some find difficult in the arguments the Holy Spirit makes through the Apostle.
I based my poem on
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Dec 21, 2025
[241]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – SOME THOUGHTS FROM EPHESIANS 1
Ephesians is the most doctrinal book in the New Testament along with Romans. There is so much in Ephesians that it is a gold mine with more and more veins the further down you go. In this poem I took some of the marvellous teaching
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Contributed by Johnny Carver on Apr 12, 2002
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Eric woke up in the hospital after a devastating accident at his work place. He had a severely broken neck and a number of other traumatic injuries. When he was able to speak with the doctor, he asked what his chances of surviving and walking again. The doctor told him that only 3% of patients with
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 24, 2002
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I read a story once about a farmer in southern Louisiana who captured a mallard duck and tied it with a cord to a stake at the edge of a pond. Through the winter the mallard swam around with the domestic ducks and even ate from the hand of the farmer. When Spring came, all of the other wild ducks
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2003
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ILL: A wealthy businessman hosted a spectacular party in which he had filled his swimming pool with sharks, barracuda, and other assorted dangerous fish. He announced to his guests that he would like to challenge any of them to try swimming across the pool, and he would offer a first prize of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 14, 2003
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GUARDED BY THE SHEPHERD
Charles Spurgeon says this about the Great Shepherd:
What is there in you, dear friend, more than there is in any other professor, why you should not prove an apostate after all? What is there about me that I should stand where so many others have fallen?
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Contributed by Chuck Cody on Oct 19, 2005
You see Lucy knows what she has seen and experienced is real. Her brothers and sisters couldn’t see it with their own eyes yet, and even though they knew Lucy had never been one to make up stories or lie, they could not on faith accept what she said. But she knew it was real. C.S. Lewis puts it
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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Em Griffin writes, in Making Friends, about three kinds of London maps: The street map, the map depicting throughways, and the underground map of the subway. "Each map is accurate and correct," he writes, "but each map does not give the complete picture. To see the whole, the three maps must be
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 30, 2006
There’s an eating disorder called pica. Over the years, doctors have reported cases of people with pica eating dirt, chalk, clay, paste, paint chips, paper, cardboard, ice chips, and Styrofoam. In one case, a 22-year-old woman showed up in the emergency room with undigested pieces of socks in her
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Contributed by Thomas Samuel on Dec 22, 2006
The world was shocked by the assassination of Mr. Lakshman Kadirgamar, the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka. The media carried the news of Mr. Kadirgamar as “a hero of our times, who waged a relentless struggle against terrorism in all its forms, despite continues threats to his life; a national
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 17, 2007
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“The Tongue”
A biblical writer said, “The tongue can no man tame.” A Greek philosopher asked his servant to provide the best dish possible. The servant prepared a dish of tongue, saying: “It is the best of all dishes, because with it we may bless and communicate happiness, dispel sorrow, remove
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Christian Church
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Sheep are not particularly bright animals. It is not that they occasionally wander off, it is their pattern. It is predictable and expected. They are easily distracted and easily led astray. A story ran in the Washington Post in 2005 telling about shepherds in Gevas, Turkey who watched in shock
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Methodist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 30, 2008
Is this "Normal?" Why have we accepted dysfunction as normal?
"Dear Annie: My husband and I are separated and he moved in with his girlfriend six weeks ago. A few weeks ago, I had to call the girlfriend’s husband in order to pass along some information. "Harris" and I met for dinner and haven’t
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 5, 2008
William Barclay, “Here is a great eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some of which God is involved and in others of which he is not involved; there cannot be one kind of language in the Church and another kind of language in the shipyard or the factory or the office; there
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
I’m not talking about perfection, but I am talking about a desire for perfection.
“Let me explain with an example from marriage. Let’s suppose my wife asks me to go to the store and buy some things, but I deliberately buy a number of other things instead. It is not a mistake on my part; rather, I
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