Showing posts with label Grace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grace. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

A Lesson on Gratefulness

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  A young labourer came to a restaurant one evening to have a meal. The owner engaged him in a conversation and found out that he was saving...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

The 33’: A Beautiful Illustration of the Gospel of Grace

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On a Thursday afternoon in August 2010, thirty-three miners were digging, hauling and drilling rock, deep beneath the Atacama Desert, in C...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Cast Your Bread Upon The Waters – WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

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The homeless man slowly looked up. This was a woman clearly accustomed to the finer things of life. Her coat was new. She looked like she ...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

How Fast Is Grace?

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I have an American friend whose experience gives us some insight into the doctrine of the grace of God. He had just returned from Vi...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Prositutes and Their Children

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The locals had gathered to protest and to threaten to demolish an old and dirty building that housed hundreds of prostitutes and their ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Broken Pitcher of Milk

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One of my favorite illustrations of grace is from the story of a social worker named Henry Moorehouse who lived in the very worst of slum...
Thursday, May 12, 2011

Bearing The Name of Someone Great

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Alexander the Great, one of the greatest military generals who ever lived, conquered almost the entire known world with his vast army. One n...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

More To Follow

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A large sum of money was given to Rowland Hill to dispense to a poor pastor. Thinking that the amount was too much to send all at once, Hi...
Friday, January 7, 2011

The Lord's Baseball Game

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Bob was caught up in the spirit (where he and the Lord stood by) to observe a baseball game. The Lord's team was playing Satan's tea...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Power of Grace

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One of my favorite stories is Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . It centers on the life of a man called Jean Valjean, who was imprisoned du...

Insulting The Giver

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To seek to earn, merit, or purchase salvation is to insult the Giver.  President Obama speaks at National Prayer Breakfast in 2009 Imagi...

John Newton Wrote Amazing Grace

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In a small cemetery of a parish churchyard in Olney, England, stands a granite tombstone with this inscription: “ John Newton, clerk [pasto...

God’s Unmerited Favor

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When a person works an eight-hour day and receives a fair day’s pay for his time, that is wage.  When a person competes with an opponent ...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

One Hundred Points

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This guy dies and goes to heaven where he meets Peter at the Pearly Gates. Before he can enter Peter gives him a few questions to answer. ...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

The Red Marble

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Read this story. If you are like me, you will learn much from Mr. Miller. I was at the corner grocery store buying some early potatoes...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

Carl The Quiet Man

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Carl was a quiet man. He didn't talk much. He would always greet you with a big smile and a firm handshake. Even after living in our n...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Cleaning With Killer Soaps

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At their school carnival, our kids won four free goldfish (lucky us!), so out I went Saturday morning to find an aquarium. The first few I ...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Our Weakness And His Strength

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The folklore surrounding Poland's famous concert pianist and prime minister, Ignace Paderewski, includes this story: A mother, wishing...