COMMON BITTERNESS
When I was in college, I worked as a youth director at a little church out in the country about an hour’s drive away. There were two families in that congregation that didn’t get along. When they came to worship, they would take up their positions on opposite sides of the room
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
Pastor Mark Buchanan speaks of going to Uganda, Africa. He went to a little township called Wairacka. On Sunday evening, about 100 Christians from neighboring areas would gather to worship. They met under a tin roof lean-to that was set at the edge of a corn-field. They sat (when they did sit) on
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Contributed by Sam Wrisley on Oct 24, 2007
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currently Rudy is locked up and locked up is what he deserves. I met Rudy 4 years ago. He was drunk at a bus station. He wanted a bus ticket and I bought it for him. It would not be the last ticket i would buy for Rudy. Rudy was arrested for robbery when he was 17. The judge sentanced him to
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jul 18, 2008
Can You Be Trusted?
Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, Christians were routinely persecuted for their faith by the Communist regime.
We have many inspiring stories of courageous Christians behind the Iron Curtain who were willing to die for their faith during this difficult period in world
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Aug 5, 2008
Can You Be Trusted?
Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, Christians were routinely persecuted for their faith by the Communist regime.
There are many inspiring stories of courageous Christians behind the Iron Curtain who were willing to die for their faith during this difficult period in world
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
Dr. Clarence Macartney illustrates this point by this story
Dr. Macartney claims he had a vision were he
Saw the King seated upon His throne
On either side of the throne, I saw the great angels
Uriel, Raphael, Michael, Gabriel
Before the throne stood another angel
The angel of the Book
And by his
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Contributed by Ronald Courtney on Sep 13, 2008
It is the first century a sunny day in Jerusalem, the “City of Peace” as its name implies, and you can hear the murmurs of ill contempt spreading through the fringes of the crowd as Stephen proclaims his message. Beginning with Abraham, describing his faith in Jehovah God to provide, guide, and
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Contributed by David Rogers on Dec 15, 2008
The True Christmas Gift
Twas the night before the birth,
when all the world did not know what was about to happen
Not a creature was stirring, and all men were napping
The rabbis were safe and secure in their knowledge
Old Herod, the king, the Lord he refused to acknowledge
King Herod was
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 28, 2025
[068]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – ESTABLISHED NOW AND CHANGED
This poem is made up of couplets and each couplet is a contrast. What we were, to what God has made us to become. For example, in the first stanza, a member of the world system, but now, a member of the Body of Christ.
The last two
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Feb 27, 2026
[298]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE WORD OF GOD
This poem concentrates solely on the bible, the Word of God. Many images and metaphors are used for the bible and taken from God’s word.
STANZA 1. The introduction and the requests for living and teaching. Psalm 119 could fit into this.
STANZA
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 14, 2001
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Leadership Magazine carried a story about 4 young men, Bible College students, who were renting a house together. One Saturday morning someone knocked on their door. And when they opened it, there stood this bedraggled-looking old man. His eyes were kind of marbleized, & he had a silvery stub of
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