Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 24, 2025
                
                
                
                    My name? Oh, I’m Sassy—the braying donkey.
Not the fastest, not the strongest… and definitely not the prettiest.
But I’ve got a good heart — and a loud voice!
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Most days I carry my master, Balaam.
He’s a prophet—important and proud.
I don’t mind. I’m used to carrying heavy loads.
But one
                    
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                    IT IS WELL
 
“H. G. Spafford was a businessman in Chicago. He was a dedicated  Christian. [There were times in his life when the wisdom he followed was earthly, unspiritual, and subject to the enemy’s schemes]. He had some serious financial reversals, and during the time of readjustment, he  lost
                    
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                    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 1, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WELL DONE
One mentally challenged young man I heard said, “In this life God places us in His oven. In here it is hot and it hurts. No one likes being in the oven but when life is over, and the bell dings, God takes
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    With tongue in cheek, Mark Twain spoke of the two-faced life we all live: I am constructed like everybody else and enjoy a compliment as well as any other fool, but I do like to have the other side presented. And there is another side. I have a wicked side. Estimable friends who know all about it
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark  Beaird on Nov 6, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In a sermon, Juan Carlos Ortiz spoke of a conversation with a circus trapeze artist.  The performer admitted the net underneath was there to keep them from breaking their necks, but added, "The net also keeps us from falling.  Imagine there is no net.  We would be so nervous that we would be more
                    
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                    Contributed by Andy Beech on Mar 29, 2008
                
                
                
                    Terry Waite spoke the following words at a Christian Booksellers Convention held at Bournemouth in March 1993:
"It is hard sometimes in prison to sit and to pray, and to read of those who were in prison, and to read of their prayer, and to how the prison door or roof cracked open, the chains were
                    
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                    INTRODUCTION
Story: He Knew the Shepherd
1. Three men gave a presentation from the 23rd Psalms. 
It went like this,
a. The first man read from the Psalms with superb diction, clarity, and reverence. The audience stood up and gave him a standing ovation.
b. The second man quoted the entire Psalms
                    
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                    Contributed by David Selleck on Oct 26, 2006
                
                
                
                    In Mike’s book he tells the story of Carl.
It was little league and Carl was at bat.  It was the last inning, two outs the bases were loaded, and depending on how Carl did, it would decide the winner and the loser of the game...!
Carl came from a large family and they were there the mother and
                    
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                    DYING WELL
Willimon states this, "Despite the quest for wellness, risk-assessment analysis, and good works of Ralph Nader, nobody has created a way to make life last forever. You and I will die. So we might as well get on
                    
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                    Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 1, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WELL SAID
A woman, who was a terrible cook, gave a preacher a pie to take home to his family.  After tasting the pie, they simply threw the rest in the trash, unable to eat it.
The next Sunday, the woman asked the preacher, "How did you like my
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Burkey on May 19, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Corrie Ten Boom spoke of the unraveling effects of worry, when she said, “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 15, 2007
                
                
                
                    “Life” magazine said Muhammed Ali spoke of himself before his 1971 fight with Joe Frazier in this manner:
 
There seems to be some confusion. We’re gonna clear this confusion up on March 8. We’re gonna decide once and for all who is king! There’s not a man alive who can whup me. (He jabs the air
                    
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