Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 1, 2024
                
                
                
                    [008]  MESSAGE FROM A POEM - A TALE OF THE FISH’S TAILS
“Take the line of least resistance; go with the flow; jellyfish that drift; leave me out of it; I see both sides; don’t involve me; I don’t want to know!”  The world is full of compromise and it gets worse.  We can expect no less from this
                    
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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 Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 1, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    On the central east coast of Florida 1000’s loggerhead  female turtles  come onto the beach at night to nest their eggs, they dig a chamber  and can lay anything from 80 - 120 eggs once  that is done they cover the chamber with sand. Incubation takes about 60 days, unlike baby alligators who are
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, and love without weakness. 
Jim Elliot, quoted in
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dating Goes Golden: Internet research firm Nielsen// NetRatings says seniors are the fastest-growing group of online users. And many of them are looking for love or friendship on the Web. Some 26 million people visited online dating sites in January, and 18% of them, or 4.8 million, were over age
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Apr 24, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    STANDING BEFORE HOLINESS
"True repentance is when by the convicting power of God’s Holy Spirit, the sinner finally has a sense of revulsion and Godly sorrow for the condition of sin in his or her heart, and comes, empty-handed and un-defensive, without pretension or ceremony, in the most personal
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 17, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I'm Standing By
An ocean liner left a British port during WWII and headed for a harbor in the U.S.  Enemy ships were everywhere.  The captain was given secret directions charting the route.  Added were these instructions: KKeep straight on this course.  Turn aside for nothing.  If you need help,
                    
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                    Contributed by Perry Greene on Sep 17, 2013
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    STANDING UP ON THE INSIDE
A five year old girl was having one of those trouble-filled days with her mother. It seemed they spent the day arguing back and forth. Finally the mom had enough. "Jenny, go sit in the corner, right now! Don’t get up until I tell you to!"
Jenny went to the corner and sat
                    
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                    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Feb 17, 2008
                
                
                
                    ILLUSTRATION
Andy Griffith Show.
Episode where a bully was taking Opie’s milk money.
Andy told him, there will be a lot of bully’s in the world; you have got to stand up to them.
He stood up to the bully, got a black eye, and lit into that bully like a
                    
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