Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 28, 2025
                
                
                
                    [091].  A POEM MESSAGE – FOR THE CHRISTIAN THERE IS LIGHT THROUGH THE TUNNEL
There was a lovely little song written in that western style around the middle of last century called, “It’s always darkest before the dawn.”  Sometimes in our lives, it is like being in a dark tunnel where we can not
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Maze on Feb 15, 2007
                
                
                
                    On June 17, 2002 Federal authorities arrested a United States Forest Service employee for starting the largest fire in Colorado’s history.
Terry Barton was a 38-year-old woman and had worked every summer for the Forest Service for 18 or 19 years.
She had ventured into the forest to burn a letter
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Maze on Feb 15, 2007
                
                
                
                    Richard M. Nixon served as the 37th president of the United States.
He was a polarizing figure who won the presidential office by a landslide and then later resigned in disgrace just 21 months later.
His disgrace culminated with the Democratic party getting their man, Jimmy Carter, into the White
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Maze on Feb 15, 2007
                
                
                
                    Jackie Robinson was the first black
major-league baseball player.
He was the victim of racial hatred nearly everywhere he played baseball.
There were fast balls thrown at his hear and curses and slurs hurled at him from the dugouts and stands.
One day, playing at home in Brooklyn, Jackie
                    
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                    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Jan 17, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dr. Walter Martin states with such clarity:
"Into this whirlpool of stagnant human philosophy and perverted revelation came the Son of God who, through His teachings and example, revealed that there was such a thing as divine humanity, and through His miraculous powers, vicarious death and bodily
                    
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                    Contributed by Keith Bowman on Dec 18, 2006
                
                
                
                    Sergeant 1st class Randall Shughart was a member of the Army Special forces and in 1993 he volunteered for a mission that left with little chance for survival but the sergeant could not bear to see his fellow service men be left on the battlefield wounded and at the hands of an angry mob, and so,
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 3, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Several years ago at a Promise Keepers conference, Dennis Rainey placed animal traps on stage. They were big ones too. Bear traps and even an African safari large animal trap that took two men to open. There were a dozen or so traps, and he set or opened them all. Then Dennis Rainey had a father
                    
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                    I am part of the "Fellowship of the Unashamed."
The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line.
The decision has been made. I am a disciple of
Jesus Christ. I won't look back, let up, slow down,
back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present
makes sense, and my future is
                    
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                    Contributed by John Gullick on Oct 21, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I’m part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I’m a disciple of His. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still.
My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is secure. I’m finished and done
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 10, 2007
                
                
                
                    Pastor Paul Ciniraj of India wrote these words: 
“I’m a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have the power of the Holy Spirit.  The dye has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I’m a disciple of Jesus. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 2, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A young pilot had just passed the point of no return when the weather changed for the worse. Visibility dropped to a matter of feet as fog descended to the earth. Putting total trust in the cockpit instruments was a new experience to him, for the ink was still wet on the certificate verifying that
                    
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                    Mark Buchanan’s shares an illustration from Leadership magazine in its Fall 2004 edition on pages 52, 53:
General Maximus comes to Rome dirty and shackled. This is not the way it’s suppose to be. Where’s Rome’s legendary pageantry to greet one of her heroes-the heraldry, the burnished armor, the
                    
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