Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 3, 2025
                
                
                
                    [043]  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – CHRIST UPHOLDS THE BATTLING ONE
(Longer Introduction)
Do you face battles?  Do trials and opposition buffet you and make the way ahead very hard?  This poem partly addresses that.
Well there is good news for you.  YOU ARE NOT ALONE.  Your Saviour goes with you all
                    
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                    Contributed by Sam Mccormick on Sep 28, 2017
                
                
                
                    MARY
Several years ago I learned that a friend had died.  Mary Mott, a member of the church during the years we lived in Virginia, had passed away at about eighty years of age.  Mary was a soft-spoken lady with a sweet and gentle manner.  But apart from being a pleasant lady who was easy to like,
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 19, 2006
                
                
                
                    Apparitions of Mary
On the 25th of each month, Our Lady appears to the Medjugorje visionary Marija who then goes into a trance which sometimes can last up to 30 minutes. After the apparition leaves, Marija shares the message. Each
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Mar 22, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    MARY'S CHOICE
Mary Khoury, 17 from Damour, Lebanon and her family were forced to their knees before their home. The leader of the Muslim fanatics who had raided their village waved his pistol carelessly before their faces. His hatred for Christians burned in his eyes. "If you do not become a
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 4, 2012
                
                
                
                    Mary illustrates that hungry heart that wants to understand the depth of this great salvation.  --John
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 4, 2008
                
                
                
                    BILL AND MARY
Bill was a retired pastor who helped out now and then in our church in San Antonio. He was a huge man, the image of what you think of as a lean tall Texan, and he was man with a huge heart. Everyone talked about Bill and what a wonderful pastor he was. Bill died a couple of months
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 9, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    MARY'S FRIENDS
Unsaved people in our society who accept Jesus as Savior have an average of 12 unsaved relatives and friends, all of whom are potential disciples. Let me tell you a story I heard in 1980, when I was in Fuller Seminary studying church growth. It happened in the First Baptist Church
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 11, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Mary Had a Little Lamb by Mary and Marbeth Rosenthal
Mary had the little Lamb, who lived before His birth;
Self-existent Son of God, from Heaven He came to Earth. (Micah 5:2)
Mary had the little Lamb; see Him in yonder stall —
Virgin-born Son of God, to save man from the Fall. (Isaiah 7:14)
Mary
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 10, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Robert Louis Stevenson tells of a storm that caught a vessel off a rocky coast and threatened to drive it and its passengers to destruction. In the midst of the terror, one daring man, contrary to orders, went to the deck, made a dangerous passage to the pilot house and saw the steerman, at his
                    
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                    Robert Louis Stevenson tells of a storm that caught a vessel off a rocky coast and threatened to drive it and its passengers to destruction. In the midst of the terror, one daring man, contrary to orders, went to the deck, made a dangerous passage to the pilot house and saw the steer man, at his
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    MARY MOTHER OF JESUS 
  A capable journalist-author named Jim Bishop wrote a fairly reliable analysis of Jesus’ birth in his book, The Day Christ Was Born. His description of Mary, the young mother-to-be, bears repeating: 
      She no longer noticed the chafe of the goatskin against her 
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                    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jun 4, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The example of Garbage Mary
There once was a lady named Garbage Mary.
	She was dubbed that name by the media when she was picked up by police in a shopping mall in Delray Beach, Florida.  She was a filthy mess. So were her car and her two bedroom apartment. Neighbors told of her scrounging through
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 19, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    MARY, JOSEPH, AND KIDDUSHIN
David Stern comments, "The Hebrew/Aramaic word for betrothal is "kiddushin," which signifies "sanctification, separation," i.e., the setting aside and separating of a particular woman for a particular man. According to the Mishna, adultery during the betrothal period
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Aug 1, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Herbert Stevenson said about this in his book “James Speaks For Today” that “No man can, by general busyness or specific good deed, no matter how noble, merit salvation.  Activity is never a rival to faith.  We cannot gain God’s commendation by presenting to Him- as Cain desired-
                    
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