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Tale As Old As Time

Guilt, Hiding, Shame, Sin, The Fall

A boy was told by his father not to play with his father’s watch. While his father was away, the five-year-old initially decided he…

Les Miserables

Freedom, God's Covenant, God's Saving Grace, Grace, Salvation, Sin

In this video clip from Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is shown incredible grace that not only frees him from the penalty of his sin…

Pleasure Island

False Teachers, Idolatry, Idols, Sin

Pinocchio blindly follows Honest John to Pleasure Island, where the promise of endless fun awaits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjgf-HQKRcE. Only too late does he find out he…

Washing Hands

Choosing Christ, Confessing Sin, Forgiveness, Redemption, Sin, Sinful Nature

Every restaurant in America has a sign in the bathroom that says, “Employees must wash hands before returning to work.” If someone is unclean,…

The “Anxious Bench”

Anxiety, Anxious, Conviction, Guilt, Repentance, Sin, Sinful Nature, Sorrow

Imagine being in a church service. Everyone is praying or singing songs of praise as the pastor loudly proclaims that people need to get…

Broken Watch

Conviction, Guilt, Mistakes, Shame, Sin, Sinful Nature, Sorrow, Trouble

A boy was told by his father not to play with his father’s watch. While his father was away, the five-year-old initially decided he…

“No Regerts”

Emotional Pain, Guilt, Pain, regret, Shame, Sin, Sorrow

We all have regrets! Or, as this tattoo says: “No Regerts!”: https://www.etsy.com/listing/634856911/funny-no-regrets-tattoo. But there are things in life that make us feel guilt, shame,…

Letter From Jim

Adultery, Commandments, Disobedience, Love, Marriage, Obedience, Relationships, Sin, Temptation, Ten Commandments

In “Letter from Jim,” Garrison Keillor tells the story of a man with a PhD in classics who, after years of teaching at the…

Stolen Joy

Commandments, Following God, Sin, Stealing, Ten Commandments

There was a man who lived across the street from an abandoned home. Every spring the most beautiful daffodils and tulips would bloom in…

A Different Approach

Grace, Jesus's Death, Salvation, Sin, The Law

Sometimes, searching for the answer to the same old problem requires an absolutely different method. In Red (directed by Robert Schwentke [Summit Entertainment, 2010]),…

The Lost Sea Lion

Complacency, habits, Sin, The Heart

The challenge of recognizing our sin comes in the fact that we normalize it. It becomes a habit. In his book The Journey of…

Changing The Fruit

Fruit, Fruit of the Spirit, Sin, Tempation, The Heart, The Spirit

You can’t change an apple tree into a banana tree by plucking all the apples off, and hoping bananas grow instead. To replace the…

Our “Stand-In”

Atonement, Forgiveness, Jesus, Propitiation, Sacrifice, Salvation, Sin

Glenn Duhigg, a stand-in actor for Tom Cruise on the set of the movie Mission Impossible 2, explains, “It sounds very glamorous saying you’re…

White As Snow

Forgiveness, Grace, Redemption, Repentance, Salvation, Sin

Charles Spurgeon described his experience of forgiveness this way: “My life was full of sorrow and wretchedness, believing that I was lost. But, oh,…

The Pervasiveness of Sin

Death, Sin, Sinful Nature, Temptation, The Heart, The mind

The power of sin shapes and colors everything. Author James B. Nelson links his alcoholism with the pervasiveness of sin. How he describes addiction and…

System Failure

Death, Design, Romans, Sin, Temptation

Using the example of a computer virus, writer Will Timmins writes on Romans 7: “Like a computer virus, sin has entered inside the system (‘living…

Breathing Again

Breathing, David, Forgiveness, Redemption, Restoration, Sin

Have you ever almost drowned or known someone who has been in that position? It’s a pretty frightening scenario to be in. In that situation,…

Collateral Damage

Community, Damage, Sin, Temptation

In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Edmund Pevensie allows jealousy and anger to bring him to betray his siblings to the White Witch, even…

The Lure of Sin

Overcoming Sin, Sin, Temptation, Trap

The fishing lure is an enticing bait designed to attract fish, yet it hides a dangerous hook. In the same way, the devil wants to…

Trespasses

Forgiveness, Salvation, Sin, transgressions, Trespass, Trespasses

Apart from Christ, we’re dead in our transgressions and sins. To trespass is to enter into a place you ought not go. You can…