Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 3, 2026
[251]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THAT COFFIN IS NOT ME
This is a special poem and unusual for my style. It is full of meaning, very serious meaning. It is me telling my story (as if I had died).
Some may find the subject strange; others may not want to think about such things. The point is, we
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Right before the jetway door closed, I scrambled aboard the plane going from LA to Chicago, lugging my laptop and overstuffed briefcase. It was the first leg of an important business trip and I was running late. I had a ton of work to catch up on, half wishing, half praying I muttered, "Please God,
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Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Dec 10, 2001
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IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF CALM-- Communion Mediation
Lucinda Norman, in an article for Lookout magazine, describes her Christmas shopping experience at a busy mall. People had been pushing, elbowing and cutting in front of her all day. Hardly able to take it anymore, she says,
“During a 10-minute
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 2, 2003
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ILLUSTRATION… Retold from "The Book of Virtues" Editor: William J. Bennett
There is a story that centers on a king and the members of his court who were continually full of flattery. "You are the greatest man that ever lived...You are the most powerful king of all...Your highness, there is nothing
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Contributed by Ray Pritchard on Aug 28, 2003
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Nothing But Prayer and Worship
This week I chance to stop and worship God in an extended way for the first time in the last seven years. I spent four days with 75 other pastors in a Pastor’s Prayer Summit at a place called Wonderland Camp in Wisconsin. In my time I’ve been to many camps,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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A candy maker in Indiana wanted to make a candy that would be a witness, so he made the Christmas
Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ.
He began with a stick of pure white hard candy: white to symbolize the Virgin Birth and the sinless
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 29, 2006
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I want to start today with a little object lesson if I may.
In this dish I have a crumpled piece of newspaper. I am going to set fire to it. See how quickly the flame consumes the paper? I have to drop it back into the dish if I’m going to keep from getting burned, don’t I? Okay, now what has
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A True Story: Mellissa. Texas 1991
Two students were hostel roommates for the first year at college.
When they returned from their winter break, Andrew was asked what presents he had received for Christmas. He began to tell his friend about the new clothes, the nice books, and all the other
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
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A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. "There is a mousetrap in the house! There
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Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 9, 2004
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SOLDIER EXPLAINS HOW SONG SUNG BY ENEMY CHANGED HIM
One Christmas Eve, Ira D. Sankey was traveling by steamboat up the Delaware River. Asked to sing, Mr. Sankey sang the "Shepherd Song." After the song was ended, a man with a rough, weatherbeaten face came up to Mr. Sankey and said: "Did you
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Contributed by Ken Henson on Nov 4, 2012
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MANY MEN OF SCIENCE, TOO FEW MEN OF GOD
In 1948, at an Armistice Celebration, (Armistice was the declaration of peace at the end of World War I) it was declared on November 11 at 11.00 am. So 11, 11 at 11. They did that symbolically because they felt that they were at the eleventh hour. They
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Apr 25, 2013
SIN CAUSES GOD PAIN
There is a book I read a few years ago, "Theology of the Pain of God" by Kazoh Kitamori, which added to my view about how I see my relationship with God. It is a deep theological book which looks at our relationship with God from the perspective of pain... and not our pain,
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