Contributed by Steven Skinner on Jan 13, 2006
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There once were a group of goldfish who lived in a bowl. They had lived there as long as they could remember and none of them had ever left the bowl and come back to tell what was on the outside. One day, one goldfish asked another, “What do you think is outside the bowl?” This question generated
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 7, 2025
[098]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GENESIS SYNOPSIS
How can you possibly put the book of Genesis into a poem? The answer is, be brief and try not to miss the main events. I had the desire to write a Genesis poem and this is the result.
The poem begins of course with Chapter 1 and works to the
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 3, 2007
Anne Lamont was addicted to coke and alcohol, involved in a messy affair that produced a child whom she had just aborted, and she watched her best friend die of cancer. Sometimes Anne would visit a small church nearby sitting in the back listening to the singing but always leaving before the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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There is a book by Michael Lewis entitled The Blind Side. It is a true story based in Memphis which is my hometown. The central character is a black athlete named Michael Oher (pronounced ’oar’). Oher now plays left tackle for the University of Mississippi and is a pre-season All American and
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Contributed by Paul Green on Oct 28, 2009
LOVE DOESN'T GIVE UP
I came across an article in the paper this week that had the heading "A Mother's Love and Determination." And the subtitle "Refusing to give up, Cynthia Teare helped her son to walk again." I caught my attention because out theme today is "Love is... determined."
It's the
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 5, 2025
[184]. POEM MESSAGE – MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO’S THE WORST OF US ALL?
This is an unusual poem I think, the name taken from the saying, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of us all?”
Here we have a reflective poem and a challenging one in our personal lives. There is often so
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 31, 2026
[283]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE LORD, OUR HOPE, OUR JOY, OUR END
This is another of my earliest poems. This poem is a personal testimony to a time when I was walking in the valley of the shadow.
STANZA 1 – All dark nights break forth into sunshine and my dark night looks forward to the Lord
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Feb 7, 2026
[287]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE PROPHETS MADE CAREFUL INQUIRY
The whole reason for this poem is this passage – {{1 Peter 1:9-12 “obtaining as the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 26, 2008
According to Wikipedia:
"…Biblical references suggest that King David and the prophet Daniel prayed three times a day. In Psalms, David states: "Evening, morning and afternoon do I pray and cry, and He will hear my voice" (55:18). As in Daniel: "[...] his windows being open in his chamber toward
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 22, 2006
Many years ago a senior executive […] cost the company more than $2 million. John D. Rockefeller was then running the firm. Edward T. Bedford, a partner in the company […] was scheduled to see Rockefeller that day and […] when he entered the office [Rockefeller] was bent over his desk busily
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 21, 2006
Dr. Charles Henderson provides a case in point. He tells of a woman who “had suffered from acute bouts of depression for 30 years when she saw a newspaper ad looking for subjects for an antidepressant study to be conducted by the Neuropsychiatric Institute of UCLA. She applied to be a participant
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 12, 2007
The movie ‘Shrek 2,’ includes an obnoxious, for lack of a better word, but faithful donkey by the name of ‘donkey.’ The movie is a humorous and satirical take on our favorite childhood fairy tales and includes a trip to that magical place of ‘Far Far Away’ complete with a Hollywood type sign which
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. Robert Russell in his sermon entitled “Releasing Resentment” tells this story: “When I was at the Eddyville State Penitentiary several weeks ago, I learned about Paul Stevens. Paul Stevens’s daughter was stabbed to death by a neighbor in Evansville, Indiana, years ago. Paul spent nearly a
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Contributed by Jimmy Boone on Nov 29, 2007
I have shared a few other memories of my trip to Israel. We were in Israel for two weeks, which included two weekends. During that time we experienced two days of “Shabbat” which of course is the Sabbath.
For Jews, the new day actually begins with sunset. So, the Shabbat began about 6:00 on Friday
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