... the skeletal features, and then came a response: "What about your failing eyesight, your dimmed sense of hearing, your grey and falling hair, your lost teeth, the wrinkles on your face, your bent body, your dwindling powers, your vanishing ... we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." Our failings are not the end. As Jonathan Edwards traced things in his famous sermon, our failings, our sins convict us when we stand before God. But "we are the Lord's," we are saved ...
... , "It dawned on me that even with my Super Bowl ring, nothing fundamental about me had changed. I was still the same old Brad Edwards, just a sinner saved by grace." No matter how high we rise in this world, we are still sinners saved by grace, servants and ... 's account is never overdrawn. I once knew a family that had a large cat named "Gris Gato." I think that name means in spanish "grey cat." Gris gato was huge, with long hair; he looked like he had a lot of Persian in him. Gris Gato was clearly the head ...
Object: A candle. Hold the candle in your hand and refer to it from time to time. You may wish to light it at one point in the story, perhaps when you speak of Jesus as the Light of the World. Today is Christmas Sunday. Did you know that the first Christmas trees had candles on them instead of small light bulbs? We believe it was Martin Luther, the founder of the Protestant Church, who first put candles on a Christmas tree that he brought into his home. The candle was to represent Jesus. Let's think about ...
