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…
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…
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? …
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…
(continued…) The next day one of the nurses saw her pastor who was visiting one of his parishioners in the same hospital. She asked if he would…
I heard this story from another Lutheran pastor. I will tell it as I remember it, filling in the conversation a bit as I go– but this was the gist…
From The Word for Every Day, by Alvin Rogness, page 63, © 1981 Augsburg Publishing House Let me say at the outset that I don’t always feel the…
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…
--------------------------------- 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…
The next two meditations are adapted from DAILY HOPE, Rick Warren's daily devotional blog (September 23-27, 2016). You may read past devotional readings, and sign up to receive DAILY HOPE…
-------------------------- (...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…