Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 30, 2025
[093]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FORAGING IN THE DEPTHS OF SCRIPTURE
This poem deals with getting into the heart of scripture. There are images and techniques and encouragement in these stanzas.
I actually make the comparison between a mudskipper that flits across the shallows on the water, and
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 31, 2026
[283]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE LORD, OUR HOPE, OUR JOY, OUR END
This is another of my earliest poems. This poem is a personal testimony to a time when I was walking in the valley of the shadow.
STANZA 1 – All dark nights break forth into sunshine and my dark night looks forward to the Lord
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A friend of mine, says a writer quoted in the Sunday School Times, who had been a gangster and kidnaper for twelve years, met Jesus Christ in prison. Christ said, "I will come and live in you, and we will serve this sentence together"; and they did. Several years later he was discharged, and just
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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PREACH THE WORD
I am greatly diappointed in the preachers of today,
With their logic and their ethics, their aristocratic way;
With their science and their theories and their new theology,
Full of everything but Jesus and His love for you and me.
There is plenty in the Bible for preachers of
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Contributed by W F on Jun 25, 2006
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A little boy ran into the living room where his father was reading. “Dad, where did I come from?” The boy’s mother cleared her throat and excused herself to let the father answer this long-feared question. Father cleared his throat and went through a long, careful explanation of how children are
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 7, 2002
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If the world were a village of 1000 people, next year’s population would be 1018. Twenty-eight people would be born, but 10 would die: three from lack of food, one from cancer, two in birth, one from war or crime, and three from natural causes.
Two-hundred people from this village would receive
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 16, 2004
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ILLUSTRATION... High Opinion, Our Daily Bread, July 3, 1989
A man who had a high opinion of himself stepped on a coin-operated scale that dispensed a card, giving
his weight and comments about his personality. After reading the card, he handed it to his wife and said, “Here, look at this!” She
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‘I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Jack Hayford and his wife Anna were vacationing in Britain during the 25th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. While there the Hayfords saw constant reminders of royalty. That, along with visits to several castles, caused Hayford to sense what it might be like to be "raised as a
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 2, 2007
A Church Is Not An Audience
A sharp distinction ought to be made between a church and an audience.
· An audience is a group of unrelated people drawn together by a short-lived attraction. A church is a group of born again believers drawn together by a Savior.
· An audience is a crowd. A church is
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 29, 2008
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Illustration: Heart Buried in Africa
There is a story of the great missionary David Livingstone. The body of David Livingstone was buried in England where he was born, but his heart was buried in the Africa he loved. At the foot of a tall tree in a small African village the natives dug a hole and
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OUT OF THE BOX
One "boxed in" child was Adam Clarke, who was born in the eighteenth century in Ireland. When Adam was a schoolboy, his father told the teacher that Adam wouldn't do well.
The teacher said, "He looks bright."
That statement changed his life--let him out of the box his father had
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Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 2, 2009
Mark Twain shortly before his death wrote, "A myriad of men are born; they labour and sweat and struggle;...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 27, 2009
Although there were a variety of beliefs among the ancient Jews as to who was being spoken of in Isaiah 53, a Targum (paraphrase) and the Talmud evidences that many understood this to refer to the Messiah:
“Behold, My Servant the Messiah shall prosper" from the Targum ("Targum Jonathan") to Isaiah
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