Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 6, 2025
                
                
                
                    [155].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – JESUS ELEVATED IN THE MIDST
Not I, but Christ.  That is how it ought to be.  That is the emphasis we need to have in our living and ministry.  I am nothing without my Lord.  If I think I am something I am deluded.  If I think the ability is mine I am a disgrace. 
                    
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                    His name is Roger Crawford … he’s about forty years old.  He makes his living as a consultant and public speaker.  He has written two books and travels all across the country working for Fortune 500 companies, national and state associations, and school districts.
Those aren’t bad credentials.  But
                    
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                    Contributed by Pat Cook on Sep 17, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Christian author Neil Anderson wrote a list he called The Twenty Cans of Success. These are based on what the NT says is true of Christians. These are promises, claimed by believers through the centuries. Allow God to speak to you through these assurances.
   
1. Why should I say I can’t when the
                    
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                    	Winston Churchill is remembered as perhaps the greatest prime minister in the history of Great Britain.  By the steel of his will, he led his island nation to stand against Hitler and eventually triumph in World War ll.  But years before that victorious moment for the ages, Churchill found himself
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 17, 2008
                
                
                
                    There once was a weak and sickly man. The man was so sick and he could not afford going to town to the doctor. The man lived in the deep back woods in an old log cabin, his condition seemed to grow worse. Out in front of his cabin was a huge boulder. The rock was massive in front of his place. One
                    
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                    Contributed by Sam Mccormick on Jul 5, 2017
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    CHOSEN
1 Peter 2:4
…you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious…
I was awful. No one had to tell me – I knew it. In my hometown of Littlefield, Texas, the kids used to find a vacant lot relatively bare of weeds, choose up teams and play baseball.
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 21, 2025
                
                
                
                    [171].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – LIVING IN A COUNTRY TOWN
This poem is a little idealistic but it was written with the aim of a possible country gospel song.  It is not my personal experience, though I have lived in isolated areas including in the semi-desert outback for many years.  I can well
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 11, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Don Richardson, in his book Eternity in Their Hearts, tells an amazing story of spiritual harvest.  In an area once called Burma, which is now modern Myanmar, lying between China and Thailand, and touching the border of Laos, there lived about a quarter-million tribal people called the Lahu. For
                    
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                    An experience Peter Marshall, the great Scottish preacher, related during his ministry:
On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Peter Marshall preached to the regiment of midshipmen in the Naval Academy at Annapolis. A strange feeling which he couldn’t shake off led him to change his announced topic
                    
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                    On September 22, in 1871, an elderly British lady, 82 years young, was ushered into her heavenly reward. Earlier in her life, in 1835, her frustration at being an invalid left her feeling useless and questioning her very salvation. What she did next would echo through history. 
As a young woman,
                    
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                    Years ago Father John Powell told the sad story of a young woman named Norma Jean.
"Norma Jean Mortenson. Remember that name? Norma Jean's mother, Mrs. Gladys Baker, was periodically committed to a mental institution and Norma Jean spent much of her childhood in foster homes. In one of
                    
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