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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
I used the famous Gene Kelly scene from Singing in the Rain as an illustration of Romans 5:17. The Sermon title was Singing in the Reign. Kelly’s dance was full of the child-like love we can feel and experience in knowing that God has freely given us His abundance of grace and the free gift of ...read more
Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-8, Romans 5:17, Psalm 51:1-21, Galatians 2:15-21, Psalm 51:1-10 (view more) (view less)
Tags: Faith Vs. Works, Grace
It’s like the story of the boy who was shooting rocks with a slingshot. He could never hit his target. As he was in his Grandma’s backyard one day, h spied her pet duck. On impulse h took aim and let fly. The stone hit, and the duck was dead. “The boy panicked and hid the bird in the woodpile, ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 51:1-12
Tags: Forgiveness For Others, Guilt, Sin Bondage To
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
ILLUSTRATION: “Cocoon” The cocoon of the Emperor moth is flask like in shape. To develop into a perfect insect, it must force its way through the neck of the cocoon by hours of intense struggle. Entomologists explain that this pressure to which the moth is subjected is nature’s way of forcing a ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 27:1-2, Psalm 51:1-19, Psalm 27:14
Tags: Process, God In The Hardships
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
"In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live; in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins; in his resurrection, a conqueror; in his ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 51:1-19
Tags: Jesus Christ
BECAUSE WE ARE HUMAN, WE SIN A dog barks because it is a dog. It does not become a dog because it barks. Its ‘doginess’ makes it a dog, it’s in its DNA. Humans are not proved to be human because we sin; it is because we are human that we sin. Though still bearing he image of God, which ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 51:5
Tags: Sin Fall Of Man
Denomination: Baptist
Pressure Washing The wooden fence around our yard was black from mildew in parts, but it was mostly sun bleached gray. The grime was heaviest around the sprinkler heads where Florida humidity turns the porous wood into a mildew factory. I had grown accustomed to the funk and had gotten so ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 51:10
Tags: Pressure Washing, Spring Cleaning, Self Examination, Cleansed
Denomination: *other
How many of you remember bluing solution? Way back in the early to mid ‘60’s, Mom and Grandma would never finish a load of wash (laundry, if you prefer!) without adding some bluing when they did the whites. Now, I never understood why they did this but one of the two explained it kind of like this: ...read more
Scripture: Isaiah 1:18, Isaiah 64:6, Psalm 51:7, 1 John 1:7
Tags: Forgiveness, Cleansing From Sin
I recently read a peculiar story about a family in Lander, Wyoming that had gone to their local refuse dump to dispose of some unwanted family items that were either busted or greatly abused. As they were emptying there junk into a large dumpster, the man of the home saw something that caught his ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 51:1-17, Psalm 81:16
Tags: Blessing, Wrong Value
I had a frightening experience the other day. I know I must be getting old because things that never frightened me before frighten me. I also see things I never saw before. Going into the bathroom one morning, I looked in the mirror, and my grandfather looked back at me. I almost passed out. With ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 51:8, Psalm 34:20
Tags: Joy, Age, Humor, Bones
Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance
Do you remember Edgar Allen Poe's story, ... The Telltale Heart? In that story, ... the main character committed a murder ... and he buries the body of the victim ...in his basement. Yet ... the murderer is unable to escape the haunting guilt... of his deed. He begins to hear...... the ...read more
Tags: Heart, Guilt, Haunt
Denomination: Anglican
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