Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Feb 25, 2025
[036] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – BLESSED LAMB OF GOD IN ADORATION
This was written as a hymn that can be sung. The emphasis is on the Lord Jesus Christ not so much on us. I hate these modern songs where it is all about “me”. Let us get back to glorifying the Lord for who He is and for what He
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 13, 2025
[059]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DISTRESSFUL TIMES WILL COME UPON US
Are you battling in life because of some problem that won’t go away? Are you weighed down by a stressful matter and can’t shake it? Does your life feel like it is starting to come apart? Do you feel the storms are thundering
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 27, 2025
[117]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – HE BECAME SIN FOR US
This poem resulted from some discussion in one of the Christian forums on Isaiah 52 and 53. I was thinking into the sufferings of the Lamb upon the cross trying to capture the stark reality of that sacrificial death. Of course God blotted out
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jul 12, 2025
[130]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – HOW CAN I GIVE YOU UP, O MY SON?
This is a serious poem because it is based on a serious verse, one that has strong application to the cross. Here is the passage – {{Hosea 11:7-8 “My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call them to the One on high,
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 12, 2025
[196]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – NOT WORTHY TO BE COMPARED
This poem has its basis in a few scriptures. This is one of them – {{Romans 8:18 “for I consider that the sufferings of this present time ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE COMPARED with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”}}
Those who are like me
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This is taken from a sermon I gave in Skillington near Grantham in Lincolnshire in England
Charles Hudson was the Vicar of Skillington when he died on 14th July 1865
My interest comes from a former vicar here - Revd Charles Hudson (4th October 1828-14 July 1865).
Charles was born in Park Street
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A young girl grows up on a cherry orchard just above Traverse City, Michigan. Her parents, a bit old-fashioned, tend to overreact to her nose ring, the music she listens to, and the length of her skirts. They ground her a few times, and she seethes inside. "I hate you" she screams at her father
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jun 15, 2001
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["Mr. Holland’s Opus": Leaving a Legacy, Citation: Mr. Holland’s Opus, (Hollywood Pictures, 1995), rated PG, written by Patrick Sheane Duncan, directed by Stephen Herek; submitted by Greg Asimakoupoulos, Naperville, Illinois]
Mr. Holland’s Opus is a movie about a frustrated composer in Portland,
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Contributed by Michael Belcher on Nov 26, 2001
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I will close with a record of something God did 130 years go in New York City. It illustrates how God has started every harvest time in history, through the concerted prayer of his people. Toward the middle of the last century the glow of earlier religious awakenings had faded. America was
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 16, 2003
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Let’s imagine a situation where a homeless man is begging on the streets of New York. A well dressed man in a long limousine pulls up next to him and offers him a job as vice-president of his company. You might say that is ridiculous; nothing like that would ever happen. But that is exactly
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 25, 2004
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Tony Campolo tells about the time he was asked to speak at a Pentecostal college. Before the service, eight men had him kneel so they could place their hands on his head and pray. Tony was glad to have the prayer, but each of them prayed a long time, and the longer they prayed the more they
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 29, 2004
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Randy comes to our young adult ministry every week. He has a speech impediment and usually stands in the corner by himself. When I go to greet him and tell him how glad I am to see him, he says the same thing to me every week. “I almost didn’t come tonight, and I don’t think I’ll be coming
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The Effects of Divorce on America by Patrick F. Fagan and Robert Rector
Fagan: American society may have erased the stigma that once accompanied divorce, but it can no longer ignore its massive effects. As social scientists track successive generations of American children whose parents have ended
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