Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2007
As we paid nothing for God’s eternal love and nothing for the Son of His love, and nothing for His Spirit and our grace and faith, and nothing for our eternal rest...What an astonishing thought it will be to think of the unmeasurable difference between our deservings and our receivings. O, how free
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Baptist
Contributed by Alan Perkins on Oct 16, 2022
Let me give you an illustration. It’s from the movie “The Music Man”. Have you seen that movie? “Ya got trouble, my friend, I say, trouble right here in River City.” In that movie, the con man Harold Hill has been selling band instruments, promising the townspeople that he will teach their children
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Apr 13, 2015
by Amy Carson Phillips
(Adapted by Melvin Newland)
“Night is falling on the Congo,
O’er the jungles far and near.
Soon the blackness will be brooding -
He who walks will walk in fear.
Yet no black man seeks his hut,
All are waiting on the shore,
Gazing, peering through the
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 15, 2005
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There is such a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation.
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To love in truth is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The Holy Father warns that the risk is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations would not be matched by ethical interaction of consciences and minds that would
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Catholic
Contributed by Chad Martens on Oct 25, 2001
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POEM: Daddy’s Table Grace
As we sit at the table,
Our family’s head bowed low;
My thoughts return to childhood
And the finest man I know.
He didn’t speak good English;
He was just a simple man,
But when he was talking to the Lord,
Even a little child could understand.
I was young and
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Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jun 4, 2005
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POEM: DON’T QUIT
When things go wrong as they sometime will,
when the road your trudging seems all up hill,
When funds are low and debts are high,
and you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
rest if you must but please
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high;
And you want to smile, but have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Success is failure turned inside
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Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
POEM: DON’T QUIT
When things go wrong as they sometime will,
when the road your trudging seems all up hill,
When funds are low and debts are high,
and you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
rest if you must but please don’t quit.
Life is queer with it’s twist
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Baptist
Contributed by David Hodgin on Nov 25, 2007
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GCF: After-Thanksgiving Poem
I ate too much turkey, I ate too much corn,
I ate too much pudding and pie.
I’m stuffed up with muffins and too much stuffin’
I’m probably going to die.
I piled up my plate and I ate and I ate.
But I wish I had known when to stop,
For I’m so crammed with yams, sauces,
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 24, 2009
A poem by Ruth Walsh pierces my heart.
I was naked, and you questioned my lack
Of modesty in my appearance.
I was imprisoned, and you debated
The legal aspects of interference.
I was penniless, and you discussed
Tax-deductable donations from your wealth.
I was sick, and you thanked the Lord,
For
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 28, 2001
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Illus.: “Love Your Enemies”
We found ourselves on the same track with several carloads of Japanese wounded after we were freed from the Kwai prison camp. These unfortunates were on their own without medical care. No longer fit for action in Burma, they had been packed into railway cars which were
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Contributed by Mark Green on Jul 5, 2005
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The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. Revised and rewritten by Harold Chadwick.
“We should not grow weary of doing little things for the love of God, who considers not the
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Independent/Bible
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GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES
Roger Simms shared this testimony in a book:
May 7 the day Roger was discharged from the army. He couldn’t get a bus so he decided to hitchhike his way home. Carry his heavy suitcase and in his army uniform, he flashed for the on-coming car. It was a luxurious, black
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GOD'S JEALOUS NATURE ILLUSTRATED
Let’s say you come home one day to find a stranger in your living room talking to your teenage daughter. He informs you that he has been chatting with your daughter online and says that he and your fourteen year-old are madly in love. He looks to be about forty. He
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Presbyterian/Reformed