Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 9, 2024
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A little boy appeared under the store owner’s sign, "Puppies for sale."
"How much are you going to sell the puppies for?" he asked.
The store owner replied, "Anywhere from $30 to $50."
"I have $2.37," the little boy said, "Can I please look at
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Sep 26, 2025
The Pastor’s Life
Lived by an Amazing Man
He serves in a lofty position—
not something he chased in life;
He heard the Gospel story,
then stepped into the pastor’s life.
He stayed in the Word—he loved it;
it was his heart’s delight;
And he shared it every chance he got—
so needed in the pastor’s
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 20, 2026
[269]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT
This is a short poem resulting from thinking about just what a small touch did. I can imagine this woman being hesitant and withdrawing in shyness, hoping she’d be cured but nor causing trouble. However the Lord knew all things. God knows
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Feb 1, 2010
The last 3 days have been painful. Literally painful!
I was playing with my grandson and crawling, on my knees, through tunnels that we made out of the cushions on the lounge – our secret castle to hide in (I know, castles aren’t normally secret but this one was).
The next day I felt the pain
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Contributed by D Marion Clark on Nov 15, 2010
"I THINK YOU'VE SEEN JESUS."
The real putting off and putting on is not so much about our determination to make improvements but about giving ourselves over to our Lord to do the real work in our lives.
In the children's book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, there is a particularly bad boy named
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 26, 2025
[090]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – SPECIFIC – FOR ELDERLY CHRISTIANS - THE THREE Ds
We come to the last poem in the 9 Part trilogy, and it is in the section SPECIFIC, addressed to Elderly Christians. Older Christians are the workhorse in the Church, plodding along for decades bearing the load. In
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Contributed by Dan Erickson on Nov 22, 2000
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A poll done by The Minneapolis Star Tribune a few years ago found that 65% of the people in Minnesota believed in hell. That is a pretty high number. Only 15%, however, said they knew someone who would be a sure bet to go there, and only 3% felt that they themselves deserved to end up
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jun 3, 2001
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Stedman says re:Ecclesiastes -
There is no other book like it, because it is the only book in the Bible that reflects a human, rather than divine, point of view. This book is filled with error. And yet it is wholly inspired. This may confuse people, because many feel that inspiration is a guarantee
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 3, 2002
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Conflict is a part of life; it is a part of human history. A study reported in the Canadian Army Journal regarding the frequency of human conflicts came up with this interesting statistic – since 3600 B.C. the world has only known 292 years of peace. During this period
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Nov 4, 2002
Dr. Jeffery Meyers, of Bryant College in Tennessee, and an instructor at Summit Ministries has something he calls the “Four Deadly Questions” he asks people who don’t follow Christ:
“What do you mean (or “mean by that)?”
“How do you
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Contributed by Keith Davis on May 5, 2003
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“It’s not a picture of a CEO of a church –– sitting behind a desk or in a boardroom, making decisions, tapping gavels, dispatching memos, and announcing edicts it’s not a picture of a dynamic speaker who can hold an audience in his hand and bring people to tears and it’s not even a learned scholar
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Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jul 20, 2003
ILLUS.: We moved back to Pittsburgh, my home, in 1973 at the height of a petroleum crisis. All unnecessary lighting was turned off to conserve energy. Everyone thought we would have a drab Christmas that year. However, the Old World custom of the luminary was revived and it turned into one of the
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Contributed by Mark Connelly on Jul 31, 2003
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This past week I was getting my oil changed and I had a chance to present the gospel to the guy in the waiting room with me. For me, waiting rooms are the best places for evangelism because the people are sitting there with nothing to do. The oil change waiting room has been particularly fruitful
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Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
There is a huge bridge being built over the water way between Brunswick GA. and St. Simons Island. It is a beautiful thing and I love to see it. Some people a deathly afraid of bridges. ...
The world’s most important bridge was built in A..D. 30 at Golgotha
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Contributed by Richard Wafford on Nov 24, 2004
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Tommy Tenney says, “The gospel of Jesus Christ is a practical gospel that is as concerned with doing something as it is with being something. Good works won’t get you into heaven, but once you receive new life from Jesus, he expects you to do what he did for the rest
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Contributed by Greg Buchner on Mar 13, 2005
D.A. Carson once said, “Hell is not a place where people are consigned because they were pretty good blokes, but they just didn’t believe the right stuff. They’re consigned there, first and foremost, because they defy their maker and want to be at the center of the universe…and who
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Contributed by Richard Burkey on May 19, 2005
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I saw a Peanuts cartoon with Lucy saying to Charlie Brown, "I hate everything. I hate everybody. I hate the whole wide world!"
Charlie Brown says, "But I thought you had inner peace."
Lucy replies, "I do have inner peace. But I still have outer obnoxiousness" And
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