Contributed by Bernard Dawson on Dec 14, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ALONE ON CHRISTMAS
George Mason’s life was centered in his business. He lived alone and refused all invitations to socialize. His brother’s family had urged him to visit but the children always made too much noise. Besides, he didn’t want to buy presents for his nephews and nieces. Instead he
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 27, 2009
                
                
                
                    WHO WAS WEAK AND WHO WAS STRONG?
April 6, 1994 marked the beginning of dark and infamous days for Rwanda, a small country in central Africa.  For the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia — mostly  using clubs and machetes. It was a genocide of monumental proportions,
                    
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                    ALONE ON CHRISTMAS
George Mason’s life was centered in his business. He lived alone and refused all invitations to socialize. His brother’s family had urged him to visit but the children always made too much noise. Besides, he didn’t want to buy presents for his nephews and nieces. Instead he
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 11, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    JUST AN OLD SHOE BOX
It was just an old shoe box with a pink faded ribbon wrapped around.
The old house was sad and sat strangely quiet…
Ever since momma was called to go home.
It’s like she had just turned loose of living…
Dutifully to follow dad on.
My Brother and I had moved things for
                    
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                    Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on May 23, 2024
                
                
                
                    Just an Old Shoebox
It was just an old shoebox,
With a pink faded ribbon wrapped around.
The old house was sad and sat strangely quiet,
Ever since Momma graced Heaven’s dawn.
It’s like she had just turned loose of living,
To dutifully follow Dad on.
Brother and I had moved things for
                    
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                    Gov Pritzker (Illinois) gave the 2023 Commencement Address at North Eastern University
"… Whenever we see someone who doesn't look like us, or sound like us, or act like us or love like us, or live like us  - the first thought that crosses almost everyone's brain is rooted in either
                    
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                    Introduction: widows, especially those with young children, have faced hardships for many, many years. This young wife was now widowed, and even worse, she had a creditor demanding either payment of a bill—or she would have to give up her two sons. The LORD, however, had another plan to help this
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 26, 2025
                
                
                
                    [143].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – IN THE FURNACE AND THE LIONS’ DEN
This poem is the telling of two stories in Daniel, one of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the blazing furnace, and the other of Daniel in the lion’s den.
Both stories testify to the goodness of God, and both are examples of
                    
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                    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 2, 2009
                
                
                
                    SHEPHERDLESS SHEEP
How pitiful shepherdless sheep are! Shepherdless sheep become easy prey for wolves, coyotes, and other predators. They can’t outrun them. They can’t outfight them. And what wolf would be scared off by a bleating: baaa? Sheep are left torn and bloodied and dead without a
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 8, 2025
                
                
                
                    [191].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – MY SAVIOUR CALLED ME UNTO HIM
This is a generic poem, that it, it is a testimony of one coming to salvation, but it is not exactly mine for I was saved when 10 or 11.
If you like, it is a synthesis of the elements contained in salvation.  Certain aspects must be
                    
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