Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 16, 2007
Born into a captain’s family who traded at the East India Company, John Newton (July 24, 1725 – December 21, 1807) embarked on sea voyages at the young age of 11. He soon entered the prosperous slave trade until he nearly died on a voyage that would change his life forever. He proclaimed, “Only
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Contributed by John Chisham on Dec 10, 2006
It reminds me of a time that I went fishing with a guy I’ll call Jimmy. Now Jimmy is a straight out pre-Christian. (That is the new way of saying non-believer) He smokes, he drinks, he sleeps around, he cusses, and he even does drugs. His wife warned him that he was to do NONE of those things
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Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jul 19, 2004
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There is a remarkable prison in Brazil. For over twenty years the government has allowed two Christians to run the prison. The prison is called “Humaita” and it runs on Christian principles. All the work is done by the prisoners, except that which is required by two full-time staff. Families
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jul 15, 2010
THE WITNESS OF BOOTH AND LEE
In the early years of her life she witnessed horrific events as members of her family were beheaded in conflicts in China. Although she was only a little girl, MI LEE (not her real name) was forced to watch and still hallucinates about these terrible and barbaric
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Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Jun 14, 2011
A PURPOSE FOR SHEEP
Sad to say, millions of people wander through life with no earthly idea what they’re here for.
One of the abiding fascinations of my wife here in Germany are sheep. About once a year, a shepherd brings a flock of sheep near our village, and my wife goes out and makes as many
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on May 31, 2026
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HOW LONG IS ETERNITY?
By Loyd C. Taylor, Sr.
How long is eternity?
No tongue can truly say,
We stand before its vast unknown,
And feel its weight today.
Suppose a bird takes flight
Toward the moon so far away,
It carries grains and leaves them there,
Then brings them back someday.
When all that
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Contributed by Jun Tadena on Aug 25, 2006
Results of Tract Ministry
A man was giving out gospel tracts on a steamer. One gentleman whom he approached accepted a tract graciously but said, "I haven’t much faith in that kind of work." The Christian worker replied, "It was through a gospel tract given to me twenty years ago that I was
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 17, 2003
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THE METHOD OF MEEKNESS
“Jesus calls us to His rest, and meekness is his method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort. The rest Christ offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes
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As you wait to build the relationships with those neighbors let me share with you something we learned a couple of years ago in our 50-Day Spiritual Adventure and that was how to pray for our neighbors using the acronym BLESS.
BODY—we pray for their health, protection and strength.
LABOR—for their
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Dec 26, 2025
[244]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – BEING A PART OF THE BODY
I would call this an unusual but interesting poem. The message is an important one though because so much is involved – harmony, nurture, compassion, serving one another, building up the Body of Christ.
The poem came to me with the first
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I KNOW BECAUSE I SEE
The fingerprints of God are everywhere in nature! Faith - at least in part - is the spiritual seeing or perceiving of the fingerprints on the things he has made. We see the order, the beauty, the greatness, the complexity of what he has made - and these are the evidence that
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