Hope Presbyterian Church In Winston-salem Sermons

Series: Words of LifeScripture: Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 30:11-20 “A bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.”  —Isaiah 42: 3 “God himself did not despise humanity, but became man for men’s sake.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer “You can survive on your own.  You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own.  But you cannot become human on your own.  Surely that is why, in Jesus’ sad joke, the rich man has as hard a time getting into Paradise as that camel through the needle’s eye.  Because with his credit card in his pocket, the rich man is so effective at getting for himself everything that he needs that he does not see that what he needs more than anything else in the world can be had only as a gift.  He does not see that the one thing a clenched fist cannot do is accept, even from God himself, a helping hand.”—Frederick Buechner “But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will