Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 28, 2025
[214]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - PAUL’S PRISON
This is my oldest surviving poem. I had parts of others but they are gone. The poem came about when thinking of Paul in prison in Rome. Everything seemed against him there, but he was never forsaken by God of course.
When Paul was in prison he
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Contributed by Normand Cote on Aug 24, 2001
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In early 1991, the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite sent back information to Earth that caused a sensation in scientific circles. This satellite had been hurled into space to peer into the depths of the universe.
But what it eventually produced was far more than pictures and measurements
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jul 27, 2006
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John Pierpont died a failure. In 1866, ar the age of 81, he came to the end of his days as a government clerk in Washington, D.C., with a long string of personal defeats.
Things began well enough. He graduated from Yale, which his grandfather had helped found and chose education as his
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Nov 13, 2010
THE HUNGER AND THE HUNT
"She was not beautiful but her eyes were magnificient. They were piercing and caught the light as jade shards and occasionally as she passed into shadows you could catch glimses of the hunger betrayed in the depths of their opalescent gaze.
As the inquisitive marvelled at
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 13, 2026
[262]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE ELECTION WILL SPELL EVEN MORE WICKEDNESS
In democratic societies people elect their national rulers, but what do you do when these rulers are all corrupt? How can you vote for them?
I know some Christians have a battle with this. Some just refuse to vote.
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 13, 2026
[310]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - THOUGH THE FIG TREE DOES NOT BLOSSOM
There is a poem called “I Will Still Praise God My Saviour” which is longer than this one. This one may have been the first part and got added to it just later. It is the same but the last stanza is added to the other
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Contributed by Rick Stacy on Mar 9, 2003
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The Village that lives by the Bible
by Clarence W. Hall
It was early in 1945 when, as a war correspondent on Okinawa, I first came upon Shimabuku, the strangest and most inspiring community I ever saw. Huddled beneath its groves of banyan and twisted pine trees, this remote village of some 1000
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 4, 2001
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Deion Sanders grew up on the mean streets of Fort Myers, Fla., where exposure to some would-be athletes spurred him to make a success of himself He explains: "I call them Idas. ’If I’da done this, I’d be making three million today. If I’da practiced a little harder, I’d be a superstar.’ They were
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Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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A compassionate man once noticed an emperor moth struggling to emerge through a small hole in its cocoon and decided to assist it. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the cocoon. The moth emerged easily, but it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The little moth spent the rest of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 20, 2001
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Author Irving Stone has spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of famous people … [He] was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of all these exceptional people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life…have a vision or dream of
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