Contributed by Robert Leroe on Mar 22, 2010
                    
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The true “righteous” person is not someone who flawlessly observes all the “rules”, but someone who begs for mercy and is accepted by God--despite having plenty of human imperfections.  To illustrate this, Jesus tells a story of two people who are polar o
                
                    
                        In preparation for this sermon, I did my taxes last week…so I have lots to say about that tax collector!
How do we get to Heaven?  By human effort?  By keeping the rules?  That works only if we could obey perfectly, which excludes all of us.  Occasionally someone comes along who thinks
                        
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