Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 14, 2025
[163]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – JOY FOR SORROW - CARE IN HURT
The title of this poem has two contrasts – sorrow turning to joy, and hurt adopting care.
This poem was written 27 years ago and since that time much has changed in the world for the followers of the Lord. Persecution has increased
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 17, 2025
[205]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – ONE HAIR HERE AND ONE HAIR THERE
Well, well, well! How many of us are bald? How many are heading that way?
I remember when I was a kid my mother used to say to me, “Tell the barber to thin out your hair.” There used to be some sort of clippers that would do
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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JUSTIN
I want to tell you about a 12-year-old boy we’ll call Justin. Justin never knew anything good. His parents, if you want to call them that, were completely without qualifications to birth the boy, having done so quite unintentionally, making far less effort to raise him than they made to
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Since that very moment in the Garden of Eden when a single bite shattered the harmony of the world, man has tried to make his own way, be his own master, and set up his own kingdom. It's nothing new.
Nevertheless, if we want to be faithful followers of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in this
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2002
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The Martyrs of the Ecuador Mission
8 January 1956 (modified by sermon author)
In the dense rain-forests of Ecuador, on the Pacific side of the Andes Mountains, lives a tribe of Indians.
-They simply call themselves the “people” but their neighbor’s call them “savages”
-For many generations
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Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Oct 10, 2004
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"Our Dungeons"
(by Rev. Terry L. Barnhill)
A story tells of a man who was imprisoned within an ancient stone dungeon. A grey shadowy jailor shook the iron lock on his daily rounds. It was the only sound that reminded the prisoner he was not alone in all the hopeless, dim and dying world of his
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 7, 2010
"Why is the F*** word and and the Sh** word used so freely today? Jesus doesn’t directly include this in what He says about oaths in Matthew 5 but it is there by way of application and other passages enlarge on this area of sin, so I am taking a detour. The spirit of what Jesus is saying in Matthew
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On September 22, in 1871, an elderly British lady, 82 years young, was ushered into her heavenly reward. Earlier in her life, in 1835, her frustration at being an invalid left her feeling useless and questioning her very salvation. What she did next would echo through history.
As a young woman,
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 15, 2025
[166]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – KNOW JESUS – KNOW COMFORT AND PEACE
Obviously, the connection here is a vital one, and it’s an eternal one. Those who know Jesus should be living in comfort and peace. That needs defining.
Comfort is not the comfort of materialism by having a great home with
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 21, 2025
[208]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – OUR GOD IS OUR STRENGTH
{{Psalm 81:6-10 “I relieved his SHOULDER of the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
Psa. 81:7 YOU CALLED IN TROUBLE, AND I RESCUED YOU. I answered you in THE HIDING PLACE of thunder. I proved you at the waters of Meribah.
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Contributed by Brian Atwood on May 5, 2008
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"In God's Eyes," by Candace Carteen of Portland, Oregon.
By the time I was ten, I was totally ashamed of my father. All my friends called him names: Quasi-Moto, hunchback, monster, little Frankenstein, the crooked little man with the crooked little cane. At first it hurt when they called him
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 22, 2007
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I want to tell you about a practicing Christian, a public figure who lives out his faith in Jesus Christ. Here is a behind-the-scenes story.
There was a lot of excitement in watching the Indianapolis Colts, led by Head Coach Tony Dungy, win their trip to the Super Bowl this past January.
A TV
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Jim Jones – He started out as a pastor and became deceived and it lead to the death of 100’s.
This was a Christian destructive, doomsday cult founded and led by James Warren Jones (1931-1978). Jim Jones held degrees from Indiana University and Butler University. He was not a Fundamentalist pastor
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Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 12, 2008
Preschool; Kindergarten; primary and elementary education; Middle School and Junior High; High School and Technical/Trade School; College and University; and postgraduate work are all the American Way of learning. From 3 – 4 years of age through the teenage years into early adulthood and sometime
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