Tag Archives: salvation

• How Jesus Fits In

  Posted on February 20, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

  “Madora came to believe that God and flowing water were much the same. How Jesus fits into this, she never understood or really cared.” That’s an insight into one her characters in a novel by Drucilla Campbell (Little Girl Gone, Grand Central Publishing, NY, 2012). Madora desperately wanted to believe in something greater than herself, […]

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• Ebola, Christmas and You

  Posted on December 12, 2014 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Ebola is a deadly disease that has been very much in the news in 2014. Left untreated, Ebola has a 90% mortality rate. Even treated, the mortality rate can be as high as 70%. As deadly as Ebola is, sin is deadlier. Sin infects 100% of the population, including each person reading this post. […]

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• The “Cause” of the Cross

  Posted on June 9, 2014 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    I read a devotional recently that spoke of a young boy taken by his mother to church.  At the front of the church hung a cross on which was nailed a man.  The boy asked his mother who that was.  When told it was Jesus, the Son of God, the boy asked his mother […]

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• The Greatest Puzzle of All

  Posted on April 21, 2014 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Earlier this month, student representatives from the universities of Alabama, Indiana and Texas A&M faced off against each other as part of Wheel of Fortune’s College Week. One freshman had dominated the board, amassing money and prizes on the way, including the $1,000,000 prize. The category was “character.” Vanna had turned over every letter […]

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• “Why Me, Lord?”

  Posted on September 30, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    “Why me, Lord?” tends to be a rhetorical question.  Or maybe it’s no real question at all, just a lament, like “how are you” is just a form of greeting. But when “Why me, Lord?” becomes a real question, it often carries an edge to it.  It’s spoken with an attitude.  It comes with […]

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• Sin, Salvation and the Holy Spirit

  Posted on October 15, 2012 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    A pastor I knew insisted he had found the only error in the Bible.  Of course, my antennae went up because I believe the Bible to be without error.  It is the Word of God.  What was the mistake he had discovered?  He found it buried in Paul’s first letter to Timothy. “Here is […]

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