-GUILT ~

'I find it impossible to avoid offending guilty men, for there is no way of avoiding it but by our silence or their patience; and silent we cannot be because of God's command, and patient they cannot be because of their guilt.'

--M.Luther

-Guilt/ Responsibility

'It's easiest to see the cross on Jesus' shoulders. It's a bit harder with our neighbor's cross. Most difficult of all is seeing our own cross.'

--M. Malinski

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'I feel that God has put me beside a cliff where people dance close to the edge. I say to them, "Look, if I were you I wouldn't get so close. I have seen people go over, and they always get hurt. Some of them get killed."

And they say, "I really appreciate your telling me that. I didn't realize it was so dangerous." And then they jump! I feel so responsible for the pain. And the Father reminds me through his Word, "Son, you are not responsible for the jumping; you are responsible for the telling. As long as you are faithful, you don't have to play God."

--Steve Brown

--Responsibility/Privilege

-- The Vine and Branches / -(Abiding Word Ministries)
-Volume 27 - Mid Winter 2012 - Issue 1
-Editor: David R. Barnhart

-TIM TEBOW TOLD TO TONE DOWN HIS JESUS TALK!

After Jake Plummer, former quarterback for the Denver Broncos, criticized him for talking so much about Jesus in public, Tim Tebow, the Broncos' starting quarterback, responded: "If you are married and you're a husband, is it good enough to only say you love her on the day you get married or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and have an opportunity?"

"And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ. It is the most important thing in my life, so anytime I get an opportunity to tell Him that I love Him or have an opportunity to shout Him out on national TV, I'm gonna take that opportunity."

"So I look at that as a relationship that I have with Him, that I want to give Him honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. Then right after I give Him honor and glory, I want to try and give my teammates honor and glory and that's how it works because Christ comes first in my life, then my family and then my teammates."

"So I respect Jake's opinion, and I really appreciate his compliment of calling me a winner, but I feel like anytime I get the opportunity to give the Lord some praise, He is due it because of what He did for me and what he did for us on the cross." ~
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-- GOD BLESS TIM TEBOW!