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                    - A barber in a small town was busy cutting hair one day when the local cop walked in to get a haircut.  And the barber was feeling a bit generous that day, so he said to the cop... "Since you do such a good job protecting us, and watching over us... today’s haircut is free."  The cop said he
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 13, 2025
                
                
                
                    [058].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DELUSIONALISM CONTRADICTS WHAT’S TRUTH
I believe Christians who ignore what is happening in the world are living in a bubble.  We must understand current events and especially as they line up with the last days and biblical prophecy.
We live in the days of
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 13, 2025
                
                
                
                    [081].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FIERY BIRTH OF LIFE
THIS POEM IS STRICTLY COPYRIGHT.  IT MUST NOT BE ALTERED OR TAKEN.  IF IT IS USED I WOULD APPRECIATE KNOWING THAT.  The use in the Lord’s service is why I wrote it.
I have had some of my efforts stolen and reproduced in other’s names.  This has
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 14, 2025
                
                
                
                    [060].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DO NOT TRUST OURSELVES – TRUST GOD
When you think you know it all:
Then you don't.
When you think you’ll do it all;
Then you won’t.
I find this a delightful poem (for myself) and I am sharing my own experience here in writing it.  Often we think we know best
                    
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                    Contributed by Todd Catteau on May 30, 2023
                
                
                
                    
Don’t you just love spring? It’s simply glorious. Trees blooming. Plants blossoming. It’s all so beautiful. Unless of course you were looking at my front yard earlier this year.
Last summer we bought three bushes that looked so promising. The leaves were supposed to turn all kinds of spectacular
                    
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                    I recently had a nursery operator inform me that keeping my young fruit trees tied up so that the wind would not “damage” them was, in actuality, damaging them! They told me that the strong winds strengthened the fibers of the tree’s trunk and limbs so that it could withstand the fury of nature.
                    
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                    In the Greek Islands, you can see the home of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine. Near his house there is an olive tree, supposedly dating from his time. The trunk of this tree is very large but completely hollow; it is little more than thick bark. There are a few long, straggling branches,
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 24, 2007
                
                
                
                    In the Greek Islands, you can see the home of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine.
 
Near his house there is an olive tree, supposedly dating from his time. The trunk of this tree is very large but completely hollow; it is little more than thick bark. There are a few long, straggling
                    
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                    In the Greek Islands there is place where you can seek out the home of the famous Hippocrates – the founder of modern medicine.  There you will find an olive tree that supposedly dates back to the days of Hippocrates.  That would make the tree nearly 2,400 years old.  
The trunk of the tree is
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 17, 2025
                
                
                
                    [135].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – I WILL STILL PRAISE GOD MY SAVIOUR
Some people find it hard to be joyous a lot of the time and get despondent over various setbacks and trying circumstances in life.  In fact I do not know a Christian who at some time has not been through this.  Honesty will admit
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 23, 2010
                
                
                
                    NOT COMPLETE IN OURSELVES
Hear this from Professor Edward Everett in the 19th century:
 
We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" and the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No, my life is in the trunk." We ask the trunk, and it
                    
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                    This is the illustration of the Blind Men and the Elephant.
Most of us have heard this story in one version or another but it is the story of six blind men who try to learn about the elephant. Each one examines a different part of the elephant and each comes away with a different conclusion. One
                    
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                    -The First approached the Elephant,  and examined his broad and sturdy side.  He said this elephant is very much like a wall.   
        -The Second, feeling of the tusk, said “So very round and smooth and sharp?  To me it is mighty clear this elephant is very much like a spear!"
        -The Third
                    
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                    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Jan 17, 2008
                
                
                
                    An old table tells that when Zaccheus grew old he lived in Jericho as a humble and devout believer. Every morning at sunrise, so the story goes, he went for a walk carrying a pitcher of water. Upon his return, he always seemed happy and radiant. His wife, with usual curiosity, followed him one
                    
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                    When I was learning to ride there stood in a field a huge tree trunk, it was massive. Such was the size it made the Channel Tunnel look like a drain pipe, this thing was seriously big. We avoided it like the plague, actually we could never understand why it was there for surely no rider and horse
                    
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                    Contributed by Randy Wilson on Aug 1, 2011
                
                
                
                    KING OF THE JUNGLE
I'm reminded of the lion who woke up one morning and decided it was time to stroll through the jungle and check on his kingdom. He came first to a giraffe chewing on some leaves up in a tree. 
"Hey, long neck," he asked, "Who's the king of the jungle?" 
"Why you are on great
                    
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