Finding a Merciful Lord
12/24/24 • 11 min
No matter where he looked, or how often he prayed, or how many worship services he attended, the man simply could not find peace. He said that his “conscience could never achieve certainty but was always in doubt and said: “You have not done this correctly. You were not contrite enough. You omitted this in your confession.” The more he tried to please the Lord the more “uncertain, weak, and troubled” he became. Was there nowhere he could go to find a God who forgave him, who loved him, who would show him mercy?
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No matter where he looked, or how often he prayed, or how many worship services he attended, the man simply could not find peace. He said that his “conscience could never achieve certainty but was always in doubt and said: “You have not done this correctly. You were not contrite enough. You omitted this in your confession.” The more he tried to please the Lord the more “uncertain, weak, and troubled” he became. Was there nowhere he could go to find a God who forgave him, who loved him, who would show him mercy?
Check us out at ascensionlutheran.ca and intheway.org.
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In the Way with Charles St-Onge - Finding a Merciful Lord
Transcript
“For to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord...When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” (Luke 2:11, 15)
No matter where he looked, or how often he prayed, or how many worship services he attended, the man simply could not find peace. He said that his “conscience could never achieve certainty but was
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