The God of Second ChancesWestminster John Knox Press, 2008 - 143 pages |
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... night , near the end , having just read to him Psalm 133 — his favorite I bent down low over his bedside and asked him , “ So Burt , how are you doing tonight ? ” “ I'm great ! ” he answered . “ In fact , I'm all healed . ” Then , after ...
... night , near the end , having just read to him Psalm 133 — his favorite I bent down low over his bedside and asked him , “ So Burt , how are you doing tonight ? ” “ I'm great ! ” he answered . “ In fact , I'm all healed . ” Then , after ...
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... night it giveth. No storm can shake my inmost calm, When to this rock I'm clinging. Since love is Lord of heaven and earth, How can I keep from singing. What is tougher, though, is when the loudly roaring tempest is not so much part of ...
... night it giveth. No storm can shake my inmost calm, When to this rock I'm clinging. Since love is Lord of heaven and earth, How can I keep from singing. What is tougher, though, is when the loudly roaring tempest is not so much part of ...
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... night Nicodemus goes to him to ask him about the kingdom of God . When he meets Jesus he does two things . First , in perhaps begrudging recognition of the genius of his teaching , he calls him “ rabbi ” ; and second , in recognition ...
... night Nicodemus goes to him to ask him about the kingdom of God . When he meets Jesus he does two things . First , in perhaps begrudging recognition of the genius of his teaching , he calls him “ rabbi ” ; and second , in recognition ...
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... night. We are the ones unable to see that when Jesus is talking about a new birth he is telling us that before any rank is imposed on us here on earth, before we are defined by the family from which we come, the accolades bestowed on us ...
... night. We are the ones unable to see that when Jesus is talking about a new birth he is telling us that before any rank is imposed on us here on earth, before we are defined by the family from which we come, the accolades bestowed on us ...
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Page 82 - And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death — even death on a cross.
Page 56 - The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation : This is my God, and I will praise him ; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 49 - I embrace the common; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Page 41 - Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.
Page 46 - The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
Page ix - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Page 34 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him : and they wept.
Page 82 - For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Page 14 - Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing.