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1472) Sinners

Christ on the Cross, 1874, Leon Bonnat (1833-1922) ----------------- What I know about sinners I know chiefly about me.  We did not mean to do the deed, of course.  What…

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1471) Persistent Guilt

By Eric Metaxas and Roberto Rivera, April 20, 2017, www.breakpoint.org So, traditional morality is out, and freedom of everything is in. Then why does everybody feel so guilty?    …

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1388) What are You Carrying Around?

By Fred Craddock (1928-2015), Craddock Stories, ed. by Mike Graves and Richard F. Ward, 2001, Chalice Press, pages 101-102. -------------------------      I remember the first time I went to a…

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1335) God Is Not Mocked

From The Scarlet Thread, by Gardener C. Taylor (1918- 2015), p. 100f. Preaching on Galatians 6:7-9 --------------------      We are willing and ready to admit to the presence of…

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1269) Dealing With Envy (part two of two)

--------------------------------- This two-part meditation is adapted from DAILY HOPE, Rick Warren's excellent daily devotional (September 23-27, 2016).  You may read past devotional readings, and sign up to receive DAILY HOPE…

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1217) Beyond Cure (part two of two)

--------------------------      (...continued)  What about you?  Have you always understood all of your own actions?  Or do you perhaps sometimes say to yourself, “I wonder whatever made me do…

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