From a funeral sermon I gave several years ago.    I Thessalonians 5:11 says, “Therefore, encourage one another and build each other up.”  LeRoy was an expert at that, wasn’t he?  He was a pleasant man, witty, quick to smile, and always had a friendly word to say; and oftentimes, it was a word […]
887) Funeral Sermon for a Sinner Read More »
   (…continued)  There are two remedies for this danger.  One is to remember that God knows all the real excuses very much better than we do.  If there are real “extenuating circumstances” there is no fear that He will overlook them.  Often, He must know many excuses that we have never even thought of, and
848) C. S. Lewis’s Essay on Forgiveness (part two of two) Read More »
Pictured above:Â St. Mary the Virgin Church, Sawston, England, oldest part of church was built in 1066 A. D. ———————— There have been quotes from this essay in previous Emailmeditations, but the next two meditations will contain the entire piece. Â Lewis wrote this as an article for a parish newsletter at the request of Father
847) C. S. Lewis’s Essay on Forgiveness (part one of two) Read More »
Forgive me my sins, O Lord: Â the sins of my present and the sins of my past; the sins of my soul and the sins of my body; the sins I have done to please myself and the sins which I have done to please others. Â Forgive me my casual sins and my deliberate sins,
827) Prayers of Repentance Read More »
   (…continued)  Sinners home from college come to church, too.  They are beginning to break away, but not yet completely.  They are thinking new thoughts now, thoughts beyond youthful hormones– doubting thoughts, thoughts calling into question everything they at one time might have believed in.  Maybe all this religion business is a sham, they
765) Bringing Sinners to God (part two of two) Read More »
Above: The Seven Deadly Sins ———— A SERMON ON SIN ———————- I Peter 3:18a  —  For Christ died for sins once and for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. ******************************************    Jesus died so that he could bring sinners to God.  We have come here this morning to respond
764) Bringing Sinners to God (part one of two) Read More »
A modern way of dealing with guilt: JOLLY OLD SIGMUND FREUD  By Anna Russel I went to my psychiatrist to be psychoanalyzed To find out why I killed the cat and blacked my husband’s eyes. He laid me on a downy couch to see what he could find And here’s what he dredged up from
741) If We Say We Have No Sin… Read More »
   By Chuck Colson for the January 1, 2008 Breakpoint radio program ————————————    The Parish Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Olney, England    At the end of December 1772, an Anglican priest in the poor parish of Olney worked by candlelight on his New Year’s Day sermon.  He would preach
632) The Wretch That Wrote ‘Amazing Grace’ Read More »
  The Book of Bebb, published in 1979, is composed of four short novels by author and Presbyterian pastor Frederick Buechner. Leo Bebb is a former Bible salesman and an ex-con, who then became a pastor and evangelist. He is a preacher and a schemer; a man who knows his Bible inside and out, and, one
601) Another Word for Sin Read More »
   If you could sum up your reason for going to church in one word, what would that word be?    You might respond that you go to church purely out of HABIT.  There would be, of course, reasons for getting into this habit, and reasons for staying with it; but habit is
518) Calling All Sinners Read More »
