Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 13, 2011
MARGARET: THE HARD SOIL
Each week I give a devotion in each of the 8 dining areas of the Shalom Centre and Margaret (not her real name) is there, with ears which will not hear. Her heart is a fortress, cold, hard, defensive. The gates are huge, old and impenetrable, bolted with fear and pride that
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
THE STORY OF FAITH HOPE
Myah Hope was given the news that she was pregnant. Like most mothers to be, she dreamed of what giving birth to a child and raising them would be like.
But when she was 19 weeks pregnant, she was told that something was wrong with her baby's head. The doctor said that
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MACHINE GUN PREACHER
Video Clip Illustration: From wingclips.com (From Machine Gun Preacher clip)
SYNOPSIS: Machine Gun Preacher is the inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the
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Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
I was recently reading an interesting book about life in America 200 years ago. One intriguing detail that the author shared was that back then most people only bathed once a year. It made me think of how unpleasant it would have been to gather on a sultry August Sunday morning in a sanctuary
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Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 6, 2025
A little old saint who came to church every Sabbath and sat right down front.
The preacher was predictable. The sermons were steady, maybe a bit too steady.
But every week, that dear lady found something to say “Amen!” about.
Every time she did, it startled the whole congregation — because nobody
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Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Oct 18, 2025
I’d like to introduce you to another great Daniel. Now this man is remembered as a great, a great in his sport and a great in New Zealand. Here he is playing in the jersey of the Worlds most successful rugby franchise, consistently the best team in New Zealand also. You can all appreciate just how
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i-Phone apps and the Mind of Christ:
Some of you may be aware that I have just succumbed to a sickness shared by several of you here today. I just purchased my first Apple I-phone. I supposedly did it for the purpose of gaining internet access, texting, and e-mails … along with using it as an
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Contributed by Danny Thomas on May 21, 2001
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Open the Rose
A young, new preacher was walking with an older, more seasoned preacher in the garden one day and feeling a bit insecure about what God had for him to do, he was inquiring of the older preacher. The older preacher walked up to a rosebush and handed the young preacher a rosebud and
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 6, 2001
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Bob Evans was blind. For the first 51 years of his life he lived in a dark world filled with sounds, but not sight. Then delicate surgery was performed, & for the first time in his life, he could see.
He has written of his experience in seeing things for the very first time, He wrote, "I
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Contributed by Johnny Creasong on May 11, 2002
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In A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond tells about the birth of a giraffe:
The first things to emerge are the baby giraffe’s front hooves and head. A few minutes later the plucky newborn is hurled forth, falls ten feet,
and lands on its back. Within seconds, he rolls to an upright position with
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2002
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AN OPEN BORDER
Janet Daley writes, “During the Second World War, the Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin fled across Europe from the Nazis. After weeks of running and hiding through occupied France, he reached his longed-for destination of Spain, from which it would have been possible to escape to
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In the film The Matrix, we are taken to the year 2199. The world has been taken over and is being run by AI: artificial intelligence. Harvested humans live in a computer generated dreamworld of artificial reality, never understanding that they are captives of an evil empire. But there are a few
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