Sermon Illustrations about Regret
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Regret and Fear Are Thieves
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
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As One Door Closes, Another Opens
When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and regretfully at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
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A Humanist's Lament
Not long before she died in 1988, in a moment of surprising candour on television, Marghanita Laski, one of our best-known secular humanists and novelists, ...
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Life after Innocence
Grief refuses to flee the past just because it is gone and things have now changed. .... Consider when we lose our innocence--when we discover that we ...
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True Shame and False Shame
Shame is only partly about blameworthiness. Of course, we do feel ashamed of ourselves when we are guilty, and we should. Sin is, after all, a disgrace. ...
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The Myth of Greener Grass
A man walked into a mental institution one day and was taken on a tour. The tour saw one cell where the man was beating his head against the padded walls. ...
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When a Door Closes
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for ...
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Lust Kills
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources reports that more than 17,000 deer die each year after being struck by motorists on state highways. According ...
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Later Never Comes
For weeks after my last operation [for cancer] -- frail and without energy, sleeping 10 hours--I looked in my house at all the books I had not read and ...
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Rule of Faithfulness
To escape the distress caused by regret for the past or fear about the future, this is the rule to follow: leave the past to the infinite mercy of God, ...
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