Life’s Arrows
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- Mar, 17, 2015
- Richard
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Life’s Arrows by Charles R. Swindoll 2 Samuel 16:10–12 Having just held a memorial service for a friend several years younger than I who had died with liver cancer, I have been thinking about how to respond when struck by an arrow of affliction. Not a little irritating dart, but an arrow plunged deeply. My […]
Read MoreThe Significance of One
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- Mar, 08, 2015
- Richard
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The Significance of One by Charles R. Swindoll Esther 1–10 In our overpopulated, impersonal world, it is easy to underestimate the significance of one. With so many people, most of whom seem so much more capable, more gifted, more prosperous, more important than I, who am I to think my part amounts to much? Aren’t […]
Read MoreMustard seed Faith
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- Feb, 09, 2015
- Richard
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“… if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.” – Matthew 17:20 Lee Strobel reminds us that in 1st century Israel, a great teacher able to solve problems with Scripture was considered […]
Read MoreThink It Over…..by Charles R. Swindoll
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- Jan, 26, 2015
- Richard
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Think It Over by Charles R. Swindoll 2 Corinthians 3:17 A bazaar was held in a village in northern India. Everyone brought his wares to trade and sell. One old farmer brought in a whole covey of quail. He had tied a string around one leg of each bird. The other ends of all the […]
Read MoreShhhhh! Listen
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- Nov, 23, 2014
- Richard
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How many times have you heard…..God does not talk to me. Or, I can’t hear God. Or, God must have gone somewhere since I am getting no answers. Perhaps, just perhaps this is because our MOUTH is open and our spiritual ears are closed. Perhaps, just perhaps HIS still small voice is there but our […]
Read MoreJust as the lost don't understand the Gospel, the saved rarely understand grace.
There are few activities more exhausting and less rewarding than Christians attempting to please the people around them by maintaining impossible legalistic demands. What a tragic trap, and thousands are caught in it. When will we ever learn?
Grace has set us free!
That message streamed often through the sermons and personal testimonies of the apostle Paul.
The lost need to hear how they can go from the island of debris, filled with misery and guilt, to the land of peace and forgiveness, flowing with mercy and grace. Those bridges are built when we lovingly and patiently communicate the Gospel. You don't have to have a seminary degree. You don't have to know a lot of the religious vocabulary. In your own authentic, honest, and unguarded manner, share with people what Christ has done for you. Who knows? It may not be long before you will know the joy of leading a lost sinner from the darkness of death's dungeon across the bridge to the liberating hope of new life in Christ. Once they've arrived, release them. Release them into the magnificent freedom that grace provides. Don't smother them with a bunch of rules and regulations that put them on probation and keep them in that holding tank until they "get their lives straightened out."; Making us holy is the Spirit's work. Be faithful to dispense the Gospel to the lost and Grace to the saved. Then leave the results in the Lord's hands.