Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 16, 2025
                
                
                
                    [202].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – PICTURES FROM A COUNTING SONG – (PART 2)
THIS SECOND PART OF THE POEM IS PART 2.  IT CONTINUES FROM THE PREVIOUS POST.
“ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE” OR “1, 2, BUCKLE MY SHOE” is a counting song dating back to late 18th century in the USA.  It was heard for the first
                    
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                    Contributed by Gary Huckaby on Mar 5, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I am reminder here of a Church nursery, The Church had a speaker located in the nursery so the ladies could hear the preachers sermon, as they worked with the children. Often during the sermon, the preacher would raise his voice in a loud tone in order to get his message point across. In the
                    
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                    Contributed by Ken Pell on Sep 13, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I recently had a nursery operator inform me that keeping my young fruit trees tied up so that the wind would not “damage” them was, in actuality, damaging them! They told me that the strong winds strengthened the fibers of the tree’s trunk and limbs so that it could withstand the fury of nature.
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 28, 2025
                
                
                
                    [068].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – ESTABLISHED NOW AND CHANGED
This poem is made up of couplets and each couplet is a contrast.  What we were, to what God has made us to become.  For example, in the first stanza, a member of the world system, but now, a member of the Body of Christ.
The last two
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 6, 2025
                
                
                
                    [044]  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – CHRISTIAN PATTERNS
This is a “constructed poem” meaning it follows a pattern.  It is a series of injunctions or commands with specific structure that I will explain.
Let us take the opening line – “Take God’s truth and make it yours, and your vain ways forsake.”  I
                    
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                    Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Mar 24, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Elmer Towns tells about a member of a motorcycle gang who was converted to Jesus Christ dramatically and the first Sunday he did the only thing he knew he should do and so he went to church.  Nobody in the church knew him and he walked down to the second aisle and sat in the seat.  And the people
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
                
                
                
                    e.    Elmer Towns tells about a member of a motorcycle gang who was converted to Jesus Christ dramatically and the first Sunday he did the only thing he knew he should do and so he went to church. Nobody in the church knew him and he walked down to the second aisle and sat in the seat. And the
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 5, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LITTLE THINGS - BIG BLESSINGS
When we lived in Houston, Texas, our oldest Spencer was born. Spencer was placed in one of the vast Texas-sized nurseries at this hospital. There in that nursery, I met a group of volunteers who were all from a nearby church. The job of these volunteers in the nursery
                    
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                    Listen to what an English Hymnist named Eric Routley wrote concerning Wesley’s hymns, “These hymns were composed in order that men and women might sing their way, not only into experience, but also into knowledge; --- that the cultured might have their culture
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 6, 2004
                
                
                
                    In a church I know well one lady slapped another ladies child in the nursery.  When the lady found out about it she was furious, but she didn’t want to say anything.  Her pastor encouraged her to talk to the other lady about what had happened.  When she confronted her in love, the other lady
                    
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                    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Jan 6, 2013
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    CORPORATE DISCIPLESHIP
Did you know that there is not a single case of "one-on-one discipleship" in the New Testament? The choice to become and remain a disciple rests with individuals, but discipleship is always nurtured corporately. Discipleship is not a course you go through; it’s a life you
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 4, 2010
                
                
                
                    THE KUDZU VINE
Kudzu was introduced to the United States in 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Countries were invited to build exhibits to celebrate the 100th birthday of the U.S. The Japanese government constructed a beautiful garden filled with plants from their
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    CAN YOU HEAR THEM?
You too, my mother, read my rhymes, 
For love of forgotten times, 
And you may chance, to hear once more, 
The little feet along the floor
SOURCE:  Robert Louis Stevenson.  Citation:  The
                    
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                    Contributed by Dru Ashwell on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Do you know someone who has:
A song waiting to be sung?
Some art waiting to be hung?
A piece waiting to be played?
A scene waiting to be staged?
A tale waiting to be told?
A book waiting to be sold?
A rhyme waiting to be read?
A speech waiting to be said?
If you do, don’t let them
                    
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