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Tag Archives: salvation
Accepting the Pardon
About the year 1830, a man named George Wilson killed a man. Wilson was tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged. However, President Andrew Jackson sent him a pardon. But Wilson did a strange thing. He refused to accept the … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Communion Meditations
Tagged Andrew Jackson, baptism, forgiveness, illustration, Mark 16:16, pardon, salvation
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Offering Hope
Years ago a submarine was accidently rammed by a ship off the coast of Massachusetts. It sank immediately, trapping its entire crew at the bottom of the ocean. Every effort was made to rescue the crew, but all attempts ended … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Communion Meditations
Tagged evangelism, faith, grace, hope, illustration, peace with God, Romans 5:1-2, salvation, submarine
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Safe Here
Many years ago there was a coal miner in northeastern Pennsylvania whose job was to inspect the mine before the other miners came down. He would check the mine for deadly methane gas. Only after he had determined that the … Continue reading
This Is the Way
E. Stanley Jones tells of a missionary who got lost in an African jungle—nothing around him but bush and a few cleared places. He found a native hut and asked the native if he could lead him out of the … Continue reading
Lifeline
Many years ago a sailor at sea fell overboard. Someone quickly threw a rope to the man, who caught hold of it just before the ship passed by him. He knew that he must hold on to the rope with … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Communion Meditations, Prayer
Tagged cling to Jesus, hope, illustration, Jesus saves, rescued at sea, Romans 12:9, salvation
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Are You Ready?
I have heard that there is an old tombstone in a cemetery in Indiana which bears the following epitaph: Pause Stranger when you pass me by, As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Communion Meditations, Humor
Tagged death, epitaphs, eternity, Hebrews 9:27-28, illustration, judgment, salvation
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Parable of the Birds
There once was a flock of birds who forgot to fly south for the winter. Now it was late in December and it was getting awfully cold. God loved those birds and didn’t want them to freeze, so he sent … Continue reading
Warning!
My wife and I built a house in the country and moved in almost three years ago. About 150 feet from our back door is a railroad track with a farm crossing. For the first two-and-a-half years, the trains did … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Leadership
Tagged evangelism, Ezekiel 33, God's wrath, salvation, train, train crossing, train warning horn, watchman
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Time of Grace
In Warren Wiersbe’s Meet Yourself in the Psalms, he tells about a frontier town where a horse bolted and ran away with a wagon carrying a little boy. Seeing the child in danger, a young man risked his life to … Continue reading
Wear Your Helmet!
Kyle McAleer was sitting with family and friends under the scoreboard at Wrigley Field on July 24, when the Cubs hosted the Diamondbacks. After the bottom of the fifth inning, Kyle was injured when a piece of the scoreboard fell … Continue reading
