Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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When we shall be less ready to excuse our own mistakes and more anxious to forgive others
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Dr. David Seamands in his book Healing for Damaged Emotions says, “The two primary causes of emotional stress are the failure to receive forgiveness and the failure to forgive.” [Wheaton, ILL: Victor Books, 1989, pp.29-30]
Or as the great philosopher Lucy explained to Charlie Brown at the end of
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Nov 9, 2007
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Clayton Bell once said: There are two big lies that Satan has been perpetrating ever since the Garden of Eden. The first is that God is mean, vindictive, a spoilsport whose main role in life is to keep us from being fulfilled and happy--when we step out of bounds, he takes delight in making us pay.
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Contributed by Don Crowson on Feb 1, 2008
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Some years after Corrie Ten Boom had be freed from a Nazi Concentration Camp, she was scheduled to speak at a church. As she sat on the platform and looked out at the congregation, she saw the prison guard who had been so cruel to her sister just prior to her death.
She struggled and wrestled
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Contributed by Don Crowson on Feb 1, 2008
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When I attended college I had a speech professor who came in one morning and had the class take out a piece of paper. “On the paper,” he said, “write out five things you cannot do using the statement, ’I can’t do…’” I wrote out those things. One was, “I can’t cook.” He then instructed us to
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Heinrich Heine is reputed to have said on his deathbed: "Of course God will forgive
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him;
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Dec 2, 2007
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Forgiven and Forgotten
In “A Forgiving God in an Unforgiving World,” Ron Lee Davis retells the true story of a priest in the Philippines, a much-loved man of God who carried the burden of a secret sin he had committed many years before. He had repented but still had no peace, no sense of God’s
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Look at the list: bitterness, rage, anger, brawling, slander, malice, unforgiveness. Traveling light, Paul says, is letting God begin to deal with the hurts, the slights, the anger and unforgiveness that burdens us down. If we want to travel light, we have to unpack the donkey of all the baggage we
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Contributed by John Shearhart on May 16, 2002
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Have you ever heard these humorous epitaphs?
1. “Here lies Anne Mann. Who lived an old maid, but died an old Mann.”
2. “Beneath this sod, a lump of clay lays Arabella Young; who on the 21st of May began to hold her tongue.”
3. “The children of Israel wanted bread, the Lord sent them
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
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THE BEST GIFT- COMMUNION MEDITATION
In his book The Life of God in the Soul of Man, Henry Scougal, the seventeenth-century Scottish minister, said:
“God hath long contended with a stubborn world, and thrown down many a blessing upon them; and when all his other gifts could not prevail, he at
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An ingenious teenager, tired of reading bedtime stories to his little sister, decided to record several of her favorite stories on tape. He told her, "Now you can hear your stories anytime you want. Isn’t that great?" She looked at the machine for a moment and then replied, "No. It hasn’t got a
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