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Casey Marie Anthony

Thursday, 07 July 2011 10:16 Morgan Clough

WOW the response to casey's aquittal on murder charges has drawn such a deep emotional core response. I choose not to debate her innocence or guilt, but instead im going to take a different approach.

when the religeous leaders of the day were calling on JESUS to punish a woman , he said to them ...

HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN < CAST THE FIRST STONE.

Well here is my good preacherly response to casey anthony and the responders....

In Gods eyes our little white lies are as bad as murder and the penalty is the same...so if youve have lied, stolen cheated, lusted had bad thoughts your as bad as casey anthony in Gods eyes...A sin is a sin and the wages of sin is DEATH in Gods eyes. Romans 3:23 Would you want the religeous leaders of the world today calling for you to be put to death in HELL forever because you have lied?

But GOD being the loving being HE is, Made a way to offer us forgiveness from our sin. You want to be forgiven right? Dont you want to know that GOD is willing to forgive you and offer you a chance to get out of HELL and not be subject to the penalty you deserve? I mean America is screaming for Casey to get what she deserves.....

Jesus gave HIS life in place of yours. You Have been found guilty of SIN. and your price is your life in HELL forever. BUT GOD loved you so much HE sent JESUS to PAY the price with HIS LIFE . John 3:16 says IF YOU BELIEVE in HIM youll have Freedom from your sin.

****** DO not miss this ****** Belive in this form is not a noun......Its NOT a thing you think, its not a minset of yes i belive in JESUS and what He did......NOPE WRONG.......

It translates I BELIEVE so much much that i transform my life to HIS and I do as HE wants me to do, i change the places i go , the things i do , I BELIEVE SO I OBEY......

So we all will face the judge one day....GOD ...and we will be found ethier Innocent /forgiven or we will be found guilty and made to pay the price.....Today as i write this ---i shudder in fear because i know that over 70% of people in church today may get to meet the judge and be sadly mistaken that they are NOT forgiven.

My question to you is this: Do you belive in JESUS? Do you belive He died for you?

HAS that belief TRANSFORMED YOUR LIFE? Are you living the life JESUS would say is acceptable?

Is your belief in JESUS changing you? Are you OBEDIANT TO GODS guidlines set forth in the Bible?

mothers day

Friday, 06 May 2011 08:09 Morgan Clough

Today is friday and its 2 days before we celebrate mothers day...its supposed to be a day that we celebrate the woman who gave birth to us....UNFORTUNATLY..sometimes the woman who gave birth to us isnt worth celebrating.... I've met many kids whose mom was a crack addict, pill head who lost custody of their kids because men and drugs were more important.

Ive met kids whose moms have allowed their husbands or boyfriends molest and abuse their daughters.....Mothers day isnt always an easy day to celebrate.....

So how about those whove had a troublesome mom, how can you celebrate.?

Maybe you can celebrate the fact that a grandmother loved you enough to step in and fill in as a surrogate mom, or whomever it was who stepped in to help raise you, and love you.

Maybe those of us who have moms who loved us , have taken for granted the fact that we had a "normal" mom who loved us....maybe this mothers day we need to look around us and see those kids who dont have a loving mom , and become the hands and feet of jesus to them? maybe we need to become a "christian mentor" to them and love them anyway......maybe we need to become their moms n dads and love them and show them just because there paternal mom didnt care WE DO.....

Whats Hindering you?

Thursday, 05 May 2011 08:53 Morgan Clough

This past sunday i preached on the paralized man in Mark 2.

This man came to meet jesus the Healer and he was HELPLESS....He couldnt go on his own he needed his

friends to carry him there...Many in our community today are Helpless & paralyzed in their lives and dont know how to change ,or even how to meet jesus the healer they need a friend to show them .....

ARE you HELPLESS TODAY? Who do you know that is HELPLESS?

Maybe your the friend who is the HELPER, your supposed to HELP them get to JESUS....

Then as they began to bring this man to jesus they encountered a crowd.....HINDERANCE...they couldnt get thru. Sadly so many people are blocked from meeting JESUS because of a HINDERANCE. What is HINDERING you today from meeting the one who can HEAL you?

So his friends , had a"what ever it takes attitude" and climed on the roof and cut it open and lowered him in front of jesus.....THEY HELPED him....they didnt just say ill pray for ya ...or oh well the crowds to big....THEY did whatever it took to help him meet jesus....

ARE YOU WILLING TO DO TO HAVE YOUR FRIENDS MEET THE TRUE HEALER?

They lowered him in front of jesus -the true HEALER....the one who had the power to make him whole.Jesus forgave him his sins, he over came his helplessness, the hinderanceand met the healer.....

Then he encountered the HIPPOCRITTES( they are everywhere) complain complain complain, the religeous leaders of the complained .....I dont think the man who got healed cared, but the ones who thought they were so spiritual never met the healer and they stood face to face.

The point im making today---is HOWEVER....we need to develop a whatever it takes mentality to reach this community ...Not just to turn people into "religeous leaders who complain" we need to do whatever it takes to introduce the HURTING and HELPLESS to the healer.....

That is the foundation of the OAA Worship center....to reach ALL of east tn for jesus, introduce them to the healer by whatever means neccassary......

Are you with me?

mothers day

Friday, 06 May 2011 08:09 Morgan Clough

Ive met kids whose moms have allowed their husbands or boyfriends molest and abuse their daughters.....Mothers day isnt always an easy day to celebrate.....

So how about those whove had a troublesome mom, how can you celebrate.?

Maybe you can celebrate the fact that a grandmother loved you enough to step in and fill in as a surrogate mom, or whomever it was who stepped in to help raise you, and love you.

back to work

Monday, 02 May 2011 11:45 Morgan Clough

after a great day at worship yestarday , i normally take monday and tuesdays off. But today im sitting in my office thinking about next weeks sermon that i need to write.....

Mothers days..wow so many sermons have been written, stories told about our mothers....i know for me as i look back over my life , my MOM has been the picture of a GODLY woman. Now she isnt without her faults but when you think and look at all the shame, all the hurt and all the pain i brought this woman in my early years...I shuddered....

But in a modern twist...she needs to thank me..{tounge in cheeck here folks}}}} but becuase my sin and pain brought to her caused her to drop to her knees and cause mom and gods relationship to become what it is today....

I thank God i have a mom who forgives me for every name i called her and everything i ever stole from her, every scar on her inner soul i caused her.......

MOM i love you and i dont tell you often enough how thankful i am to have you as a mom.....

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