Sin - MandyGunter.com https://mandygunter.com Striving for biblical literacy and hope in a broken world. Mon, 23 Dec 2024 23:11:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/mandygunter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-MG-logo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sin - MandyGunter.com https://mandygunter.com 32 32 227822906 The Great Advent – The King Is Born https://mandygunter.com/the-great-advent-the-king-is-born/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-advent-the-king-is-born Mon, 23 Dec 2024 23:06:21 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=709 The Pattern of Scripture Advent. If you look back to its Latin origin, you’ll find it means “to come” or “the arrival,” and is usually used in reference to something or someone important. Christians celebrate Advent, the arrival, of Jesus at Christmas. The extraordinary, humble birth of Jesus altered the...

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]]> 709 Judges- Looking for Hope When the World Gets Darker https://mandygunter.com/judges-looking-for-hope-when-the-world-gets-darker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judges-looking-for-hope-when-the-world-gets-darker https://mandygunter.com/judges-looking-for-hope-when-the-world-gets-darker/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:32:59 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=586 Judges is a constant downward spiral of Israel in every way. The judges themselves display this theme in their own character, going from good, to okay, to catastrophic.

But if we think our sin is any less abhorrent to God than those listed in this book, we deceive ourselves. Our sin, no matter how little we perceive it to be, marks us to our core. It is an abomination to a holy God.

While my hands are not stained with most of the evils detailed in Judges, they are dripping with sin of my own. If I’m not careful, pride will find a sliver of light and begin to work its way past the doorframe of my heart. I will think that my “lesser” sins mean I’m in less need to be saved from it.

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]]> https://mandygunter.com/judges-looking-for-hope-when-the-world-gets-darker/feed/ 1 586 Broken Seashells and Shattered Reflections https://mandygunter.com/broken-seashells-and-shattered-reflections/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=broken-seashells-and-shattered-reflections https://mandygunter.com/broken-seashells-and-shattered-reflections/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:00:19 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=483 Brokenness. It’s a word I have carried in my chest for several years now. It’s a word I see when I look in the mirror and at the world around me. Sometimes it is all I can see. I close my eyes and imagine shattered pottery, the jagged edges slicing...

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