HE PARDONS WITH PARDONS
Parker, "You cannot conceive God's notion of pardon...When God forgives, He does not merely barely pardon...He pardons with pardons! When he casts our sins away it is not into a shallow pool, it is into the depths of
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 31, 2011
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THE GRIZZLY AND THE SKUNK
Dale Carnegie once noted that there was only animal that the grizzly bear would allow to eat with him. That animal is the skunk.
Grizzly bears in Yellowstone Park often come to eat at the place where garbage is dumped. This huge bear can fight and beat almost any animal
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Contributed by Kelly Benton on Jan 29, 2013
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CARRYING WHAT I DON'T NEED
I think back to my Army days. All those foot marches and all the pain associated with them. As a young private I packed pretty much everything I could before we went out. I wanted to make sure I had all the comforts to help make life easier. I made sure to have extra
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Contributed by Charles Jones on Apr 11, 2013
GOD "SUBDUES" OUR SINS
The word "subdue" is such a powerful word. In the Hebrew, it is the word "kabash" (kaw-bash) meaning to "tread down, disregard, conquer, bring into subjection". The Hebrew word for "cast" is "shalak" (shaw-lak) which means "to hurl, to throw away".
What an amazing
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Contributed by Ryan Reed on May 30, 2008
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Recently I read an article a pastor wrote on today's church: "I look around at church people who really, by any standards, just love Christ a little bit. They don't care for worship, not much of it anyway. Prayer bores them to tears. The Bible is tedious. Their offering is only a token to ease the
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 3, 2008
Rabbi Hillel supposed told his disciples, "Make sure that you repent on the day that you die and God will forgive you."
His disciples then asked, "How are we supposed to know
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Contributed by Chris Surber on Jul 7, 2008
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At the heart of judgment is blame and at the heart of blame is a denial of grace. The heart which is filled with judgment says, “I am not worthy of grace and neither are you!” Our ability to forgive others is closely linked to our ability to forgive ourselves because both stem from our
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Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Aug 9, 2008
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There was a mother that was trying to calm her daughter down and she said, "Now, Sarah, your brother said he was sorry he broke your doll so I hope that you'll forgive him."
"All right, " Sarah said
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 23, 2008
Washing in the Bible
A worship station is set up. There are two but they are the same thing. Water is a powerful cleansing agent and symbol. In the temple, the priests washed their hands and their feet every time they led worship to symbolize their initial baptism when they were set apart for
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Oct 21, 2008
Matthew sprained his ankle playing football. The doctor told him to get off his crutches as soon as possible, because the injury would develop scar tissue if he did not walk on it. If an injury develops scar tissue, later on it can be worse and more painful and you lose mobility.
Some people
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Peanuts cartoon (Lucy goes up to Charlie Brown with a paper and pen and says, “Here, sign this. It absolves me from all blame.” Then she goes to Shroeder with the same paper and says, “Here, sign this. It absolves me from all blame.” Finally she comes to Linus and says, “Here, sign this. It
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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Karl Menninger, a famed psychiatrist, once said that if he could convince the patients in psychiatric hospitals that their sins were forgiven, 75 percent of them could walk out the next day!
Source: Today in the Word, March
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Dec 31, 2008
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A PARDON MUST BE ACCEPTED
About the year 1830, a man named George Wilson killed a government employee who caught him in the act of robbing the mails. He was tried and sentenced to be hanged. However, President Andrew Jackson sent him a pardon. But Wilson did a strange thing. He refused to accept
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