grace

3199) Earning Points

ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย  A while back I came across a nice little illustration of the grace of God.ย  The writer referred to it as an old familiar illustration, but I had never heard it before, and maybe you havenโ€™t either.ย  (This is an illustration, not a joke… so donโ€™t be waiting for the punch line).ย  Here it […]

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3196) For All Ragamuffins

One of the dictionary definitions of ragamuffin is a ragged, often disreputable person.ย  Brennan Manning often used that word to describe himself.ย  His life was a mess.ย  After serving as a marine in Korea, he became a monk– and then he quit that life.ย  He became a priest– and then he left the priesthood.ย  He

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3115) A Lesson in Grace

By Lee Strobel ———————————— โ€œThis is embarrassing,โ€ย my friend said to me over the phone. โ€œThatโ€™s okay,โ€ I assured him. โ€œGo ahead.ย  You can tell me.โ€ He sighed.ย  โ€œWell, we found out our little girl shoplifted a book from the church bookstore.ย  We were really surprised because sheโ€™s a good kid.ย  Anyway, I was wondering whether

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3022) A Word of Warning (2/2)

ย  ย  ย The Parable of the Wicked Tenants; Matthew 21:33-43 ย  ย  ย (…continued) ย Knowing what we know about renting and owning, what can we say about that? ย First of all we might want to ask, โ€œWhat on earth could they have be thinking?โ€ ย Were those tenants insane? ย Is that how it works: if you kill

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3021) A Word of Warning (1/2)

ย  ย  ย (Jesus said),ย โ€œListen to another parable: ย There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. ย He put a wall around it, dug a wine-press in it and built a watchtower. ย Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went on a journey. ย When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants

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2830) Do You Really Get It?

By Tim Challies, November 9, 2015 article at: ย www.challies.com ย  ย  ย How do you know that you really get the gospel, that you really understand and believe it? ย Or perhaps better said, how do you know that the gospel has really gotten you, that it has taken hold of you and begun to permanently transform

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2785) Not Fair?

Fromย The Clergy of America: Anecdotes, 1869, pages 169-170 ย  ย  ย A sermon illustration from a New England minister in the 1700โ€™s. โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€“ ย  ย  ย A clergyman sitting in his study, saw some boys in his garden stealing melons. ย He quietly arose, and walking into his garden, called out to them, โ€œBoys, boys.โ€ ย They immediately fled

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2776) Lost

By Lutheran pastor David G. Johnson in The Road Once Traveled, 1991, pages 67-71 ย  ย  ย The three of us, Bob, John, and I, were so intent on following a turkey that we neglected to pay much attention to where we were going. ย The car was not far away and we thought we knew the

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2748) Pastor Quasimodo

Image above:ย  Quasimodo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, from the 1939 movie, based on the 1831 classic by Victor Hugo. โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€” By Fred Craddock,ย Craddock Stories, ed. by Mike graves and Richard F. Ward, Chalice Press, 2001, pages 49-50. ย ย  ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย  I was in a distant city, and the seminar in which I was involved ended

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2351) Amazing Grace, Amazing Video

“Amazing Grace Sung by Believers from 50 Different Countries, United by Jesus,” posted June 5, 2020 at:ย  http://www.epm.org , by Randy Alcorn.ย  Pastor and author Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries and the author of more than 50 books.ย  For more on this subject, see Randyโ€™s devotionalย Grace: A Bigger View

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