Comments on: FEB. 27 – SIN STARTS WITH ME http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/sin-starts-with-me/ Advent and Lenten devotions by Goshen College students, faculty and staff Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Helen http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/sin-starts-with-me/#comment-25 Helen Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:02:33 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=47#comment-25 Thanks so much, Jodi, and all the reflectors, for your timely words. As a star judger, I need to hear these thoughts this Lent, and to turn to my own sinfulness before focussing on the limitations of others. I too watched the documentary on Ted Haggard and felt so empty. How easy it is for me and us to end up like sheep without a shepherd. Thanks so much, Jodi, and all the reflectors, for your timely words. As a star judger, I need to hear these thoughts this Lent, and to turn to my own sinfulness before focussing on the limitations of others. I too watched the documentary on Ted Haggard and felt so empty. How easy it is for me and us to end up like sheep without a shepherd.

]]> By: Charlotte Oda http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/sin-starts-with-me/#comment-24 Charlotte Oda Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:03:39 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=47#comment-24 I was thinking at the beginning of Lent that I want to stop being judgmental, and your devotional message helped me. I have much sin in my nearly 64 years of life, so I'm glad you reminded me to think of my own sin (and how God has forgiven me) and to be forgiving and understand of other sinners like me. Thank you for that important message. I was thinking at the beginning of Lent that I want to stop being judgmental, and your devotional message helped me. I have much sin in my nearly 64 years of life, so I’m glad you reminded me to think of my own sin (and how God has forgiven me) and to be forgiving and understand of other sinners like me. Thank you for that important message.

]]> By: Lisa Yoder http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/sin-starts-with-me/#comment-23 Lisa Yoder Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:07:37 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=47#comment-23 Thanks again Jodi! You are exactly right. Our lives are "messy" and if we think other wise we are not being honest with our selves. What a wonderful reassurance that God can clean it up and we don't need to and can't do it alone. Let's join those many others around the world who are "praying without ceasing" during this time of reflection. Thanks again Jodi!
You are exactly right.
Our lives are “messy” and if we think other wise we are not being honest with our selves.
What a wonderful reassurance that God can clean it up and we don’t need to and can’t do it alone.
Let’s join those many others around the world who are “praying without ceasing” during this time of reflection.

]]> By: BIRUNGI SUSAN http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/sin-starts-with-me/#comment-22 BIRUNGI SUSAN Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:04:37 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=47#comment-22 This is a wonderfull massage for me during this time to remember my sins ask God to forgive me. Not forgetting that it wasn't the nails that held JESUS CHRIST on the cross but his LOVE for and me. This is a wonderfull massage for me during this time to remember my sins ask God to forgive me. Not forgetting that it wasn’t the nails that held JESUS CHRIST on the cross but his LOVE for and me.

]]> By: Charles Witt http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/sin-starts-with-me/#comment-21 Charles Witt Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:57:47 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=47#comment-21 My Granadfather taught us kids that the only sin was "selfishness"...that of putting our 'wants' in front of everyone elses. That is why stealing a penny is just as bad as murder....they all stem from the main root cause, selfishness. Love of money, of fame, of position, of food, of alcohol, just being 'right' all stem from the same root cause. My Granadfather taught us kids that the only sin was “selfishness”…that of putting our ‘wants’ in front of everyone elses. That is why stealing a penny is just as bad as murder….they all stem from the main root cause, selfishness. Love of money, of fame, of position, of food, of alcohol, just being ‘right’ all stem from the same root cause.

]]> By: mary http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/sin-starts-with-me/#comment-20 mary Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:33:59 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=47#comment-20 i enjoyed this reflection. a few weeks ago i saw the hbo documentary about ted haggard. i was distressed at how he was "exiled from his church and his home at the time he needed the support the most. and his wife and children being "punished for the sins of the father" i believe that like christ, our baptismal call is to bring comfort and healing to those in most need of it. instead many times we are the pharisee in the front of the temple thanking god we are not like them. yet isn't our judgement and discomfort more because we are too well aware that we are like them? i enjoyed this reflection. a few weeks ago i saw the hbo documentary about ted haggard. i was distressed at how he was “exiled from his church and his home at the time he needed the support the most. and his wife and children being “punished for the sins of the father” i believe that like christ, our baptismal call is to bring comfort and healing to those in most need of it. instead many times we are the pharisee in the front of the temple thanking god we are not like them. yet isn’t our judgement and discomfort more because we are too well aware that we are like them?

]]> By: Colin Figures http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/sin-starts-with-me/#comment-19 Colin Figures Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:21:18 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=47#comment-19 Excellent devotional. God be merciful to me a sinner,(& a judger) ! p.s. Have you read "The Ragamuffin Gospel" by Brennan Manning ? If not I recommend it - expanding the theme you have written about. Excellent devotional. God be merciful to me a sinner,(& a judger) !
p.s. Have you read “The Ragamuffin Gospel” by Brennan Manning ? If not I recommend it – expanding the theme you have written about.

]]> By: Jim Brenneman http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/sin-starts-with-me/#comment-18 Jim Brenneman Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:46:11 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=47#comment-18 Jodi, Your comments were deeply resonant with me. I have not heard such a reflection on "sin" in a long, long time. It's not everyday given our penchant for psychologizing, not wanting to moralize, etc., that we speak about "sin" as forthrightly as you have and, especially, of ourselves!! Oh, that "log." Thanks for setting me on a sobering, yet hopeful, and gracious path for this Lenten season. Jodi,

Your comments were deeply resonant with me. I have not heard such a reflection on “sin” in a long, long time. It’s not everyday given our penchant for psychologizing, not wanting to moralize, etc., that we speak about “sin” as forthrightly as you have and, especially, of ourselves!! Oh, that “log.” Thanks for setting me on a sobering, yet hopeful, and gracious path for this Lenten season.

]]> By: Pam http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/sin-starts-with-me/#comment-17 Pam Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:04:50 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=47#comment-17 This a great reminder of what we should be thinking about during this time of Lent. Thank you for pointing out the sometimes overlooked obvious in each of our lives and pointing us toward the Saviour who cleanses us from all unrighteousness. This a great reminder of what we should be thinking about during this time of Lent. Thank you for pointing out the sometimes overlooked obvious in each of our lives and pointing us toward the Saviour who cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

]]> By: Andrew Clouse http://www.goshen.edu/devotions/sin-starts-with-me/#comment-16 Andrew Clouse Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:22:08 +0000 http://blog.goshen.edu/devotions/?p=47#comment-16 Thanks, Jodi, and thanks, Pam. A troubling survey I recently read showed that many Americans think that over consumption is one of the most important issues of our time, but only a small percentage think that they themselves are guilty of it. Until we take the log from our own eyes we will not begin to move beyond any of the global crises that, in my mind, have been caused by the institutionalization of sin. Thanks, Jodi, and thanks, Pam. A troubling survey I recently read showed that many Americans think that over consumption is one of the most important issues of our time, but only a small percentage think that they themselves are guilty of it. Until we take the log from our own eyes we will not begin to move beyond any of the global crises that, in my mind, have been caused by the institutionalization of sin.

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