Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Jan 10, 2012
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MESSAGE TO BAYLOR STUDENTS
Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks was president of Baylor University in Texas from 1902 until his death in 1931. On his deathbed he wrote a message to the senior class of 1931 which has become immortal to the students of Baylor.
"I stand on the border of mortal life but I face
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 15, 2020
My wife makes an amazing pot roast dinner. She takes raw meat, along with raw sliced white and sweet potatoes, celery, mushrooms, carrots, and onions and throws them into the slow cooker. Six or seven hours later the aroma fills the house, and the first taste is a delight. It is always to my
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A pastor was scheduled to address a large Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. His wife, who often reminded him to preach shorter sermons, said to him, “I am giving you an envelope in which is a message for you. Open the envelope just before you speak and it will really help
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 21, 2025
[233]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - REMEMBER ME UNTIL I COME
This poem was written as a Communion meditation with the view of being a Communion hymn. It uses a Metre 12 in the four lines. I adapted this for another poem based on this one using a Metre 10 that can be sung to various tunes. At the
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 9, 2025
[107]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GOSPEL REFLECTIONS
This poem begins with reflections them moves to creation, then the death of the Lord followed by salvation and ends with a very pleasant scene in peaceful waters and sunlight.
The inspiration for this was recall of the tropical scenery around me
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 19, 2001
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ILL. A few years ago, Bill Cosby began his book, "Fatherhood," with these words: "So you’ve decided to have a child. You’ve decided to give up quiet evenings with good books & lazy weekends with good music, intimate meals during which you finish whole sentences, sweet private times when you’ve
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One tribe of native Americans had a unique practice for training young braves. On the night of a boy’s thirteenth birthday, he was placed in a dense forest to spend the entire night alone. Until then he had never been away from the security of his family and tribe. But on this night he was
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Contributed by Keith Davis on May 5, 2003
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The Perfect Church
I think that I shall never see
A church that’s all it ought to be;
A church that has no empty pews,
Whose preacher never has the blues;
A church whose deacons always “deke”
And none is proud but all are meek;
Where gossips never peddle lies
Or make complaints or
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Moms on the go for the Lord strengthen their children¡¦s individual personalities.They allow their children to soar into what God designed them to be.
This poem expresses this act well: Before I was myself, you made me, me by Nicholas Gordon:
Before I was myself you made me, me
With love and
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Contributed by Joel Vicente on May 27, 2004
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Walking through a supermarket, a young man noticed an old lady following him around. He ignored her for a while, but when he got to the checkout line, she got in front of him. "Pardon me," she said. "I’m sorry if I’ve been staring, but you look just like me son who died recently. "I’m sorry for
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 24, 2008
JOHN NEWTON: Wrote many books, sermons & hymns. His most famous was ‘Amazing Grace’. Newton’s life proved the truth of that song.
He lived a very troubled life: Had a very godly mother but a wicked father who was often off to sea and then came home to live a wicked life.
Newton’s mother prayed
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Nov 12, 2008
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EVERYBODY SMELLS US
You ever met someone that had no sense of smell? I have, and actually, an estimated 2.7 million people in the United States have an impaired or absent sense of smell. It's known as chronic olfactory dysfunction.
Most people I know can smell when there is a certain powerful
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 27, 2009
"It interests me that God tests me by allowing me to go through difficult situations in order to prove the quality of my character, the genuineness of my worship and the motivations of my service. What is your Marah?
I can sing praises easily when things are working out well for me. Throughout my
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Sep 17, 2001
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Over in England, every day at noon a man by the name of Jim went to his church, sat down on the front row for five minutes, then slipped out. One day his pastor asked why he did this. Jim answered, “The world wears me down, and so I sit here in church and bow my head and say, ‘Jesus, this is Jim.
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Apr 20, 2004
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AGAIN – so much of what Jesus teaches is just nuts according to the world… he taught THAT…
• The way up is down
• The way in is out
• The way first is last
• The way of success is service
• The way of attainment is relinquishment
• The way of strength is weakness
• The way of security is
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Over in England, every day at noon a man by the name of Jim went to his church, sat down on the front row for five minutes, then slipped out. One day his pastor asked why he did this. Jim answered, "The world wears me down, and so I sit here in church and bow my head and say, 'Jesus, this is Jim. I
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