Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Dec 26, 2025
[244]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – BEING A PART OF THE BODY
I would call this an unusual but interesting poem. The message is an important one though because so much is involved – harmony, nurture, compassion, serving one another, building up the Body of Christ.
The poem came to me with the first
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Contributed by Alan Perkins on Mar 27, 2001
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Do you remember the TV show, MASH? There’s a recurring scene in which Hawkeye and B.J. have been in surgery for eighteen hours straight. Finally, they finish and drag themselves back to their tent. Just as their heads hit the pillow, we hear the faint sound of helicopters in the distance. And then,
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Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 4, 2001
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A Methodist pastor says to a Baptist pastor, “If I immerse somebody just up to his ankles, it that enough?” “No,” answers the Baptist. “How about up to his knees?” “Nope.” “How about up to his shoulders?” “No sir!” “You mean I’ve got to get the water over the top of his head?” “That’s
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Chris Appleby on Jun 3, 2002
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Holiness is a bit like this: in our kitchen we have a chopping board that’s holy. Well, actually we have a few chopping boards, but there’s one particular one that’s reserved for sweet things, for fruit and bread, and maybe mild cheese. But if you chop up an onion on it you’re in big trouble,
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2002
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GODLESS AMERICANS MARCH ON WASHINGTON
An article from Sunday’s Washington Times reported on the event by saying,
"Thousands of nonbelievers converged on the Mall yesterday to demand equal rights under the Constitution and separation between politics and the pulpit during the first-ever Godless
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Contributed by Joel Preston on Nov 15, 2002
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PAYDAY SOMEDAY
An Atheist farmer often ridiculed people who believed in God. He wrote the following letter to the editor of a local newspaper:
“I plowed on Sunday, planted on Sunday, cultivated on Sunday, and hauled my crops on Sunday; but I never went to church on Sunday. Yet, I harvested more
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
It is no wonder that in 15 years of asking high school students throughout America whether, in an emergency situation, they would save their dog or a stranger first, most students have answered that they would not save the stranger. "I love my dog, I don’t love the stranger," they always say. The
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Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Dec 27, 2002
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We’ve got a guy name Mark Batelle that comes to our church. Mark is an excellent musician and a solid Christian. But Mark also has the “F” word tattooed on the back of his bald head. A few months ago the president of Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary came to visit our church. And I looked
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Independent/Bible
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There is a story of a woodpecker who was pecking on a tree. Just as he flew away, lightning hit the tree and split it right down the middle. The woodpecker heard the noise, turned back, and said, “Look what I did!”
A lot of us are like spiritual woodpeckers. We walk around consciously and
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Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 17, 2003
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A mother’s daily antidepressant is praise! Through Jesus we can put on a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair! Praise cuts the ropes of despair. Praise unlocks the jail of depression. Praise sets our spirits free.
How much more can we love our kids when we’re loving our God?
How much
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Evie Megginson on May 24, 2004
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Jack Jones wrote: "Putting a hog in the living room will not change the hog’s nature, but it will damage the living room. A lost man’s nature will not be changed by placing his name on the church roll, but the church will suffer by his being a member. Every Christian should be a church member; in
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2004
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WHICH WAY?
In a recent NCAA cross-country championship held in Riverside, California, 123 of the 128 runners missed a turn. One competitor, Mike Delcavo, stayed on the 10,000 meter course and began waving for fellow runners to follow him. Delcavo was able to convince only four other runners to go
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A recent Newsweek poll found that “84 percent of American adults consider themselves Christians, and 82 percent see Jesus as God or the son of God. Seventy-nine percent say they believe in the virgin birth, and 67 percent think the Christmas story — from the angels’ appearance to the Star of
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