Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 25, 2025
                
                
                
                    [141].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – IN FRONT, BEHIND, AND TO THE SIDES
{{Romans 8:35 “WHO SHALL SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST?  Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”}} 
{{Romans 8:39 “nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing,
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Bauer on Aug 1, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    We stand before the Lord
	like a child with her hand in the candy jar.
	who finds he cannot withdraw his hand
	without letting go of the candy.
	She is unwilling to do this
	The candy represents everything we want in life
	at that moment.
	But he child is helpless
	caught between 2 desires
	candy
                    
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                    "According to medieval legend, before King Arthur sent his knights on errantry to right wrongs and befriend the helpless, he would call them together at his round table, where each knight could see the face of the his king and the faces of his fellows. Shall the followers of the King of Kings do
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 3, 2005
                
                
                
                    Hannah W. Smith wrote: "He goes before to open the way and we are to follow. It is never a sign of Divine leading when we insist on running rough shod over all opposing things." A.W. Tozer asked, “Is it forced? Or does it flow?” Now, this doesn’t mean we sit back and wait for God to  show us the
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Dec 17, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THERE GOES MY LIFE
Kenny Chesney has a new song/music video out entitled, “There Goes My Life…”  It’s a ballad focusing on the life of two young kids in high school that find themselves in a crisis moment of a pregnancy out of wedlock.  (I want to say here that I’m not advocating the immoral
                    
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                    Contributed by Ken Pell on Aug 2, 2010
                
                
                
                    JOY GOES DEEPER
"Joy is like the hidden note in the glass. Joy is tuning in to what God is doing around you, seeing the world through his eyes, picking up on his delight in us as his children. Anyone can find happiness for a while...Happiness depends on what is happening to you. Joy is different;
                    
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                    BUT BEFORE THAT...
In 1992, when our own Govenor, Kirk Fordice stated unreservedly “America is a Christian nation” the response bordered on hysteria.
But before that -- Congress, declared 1983 to be the “Year of the Bible” — stating that the Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 12, 2010
                
                
                
                    Book of Ezra. Why was the Lord’s temple begun first, even before the city wall? The temple was used for spiritual purposes; the wall, for military and political purposes. God had always been the nation’s protector, and the Jews knew that the strongest stone wall would not protect them if God was
                    
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                    Contributed by Chris Appleby on May 21, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A funeral and the burial or cremation that goes with it is a vital part in the process of mourning isn’t it? It provides a sense of finality that’s important in coming to terms with loss. You often hear about people who have been lost and assumed dead but their bodies are never found. And their
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED!
China is enlisting armies of ducks to prevent a plague of locusts engulfing swathes of valuable cropland, but the birds will probably end up in restaurants, according to a June 11 Reuters dispatch.
The Manasi locust station in the northwest is about to unleash 4,000
                    
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