WHY WEEPING MATTERS (21 OF 26)
Scripture: Mark 14:54, Mark 14:66-72
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Why Weeping Matters (21 of 26)
Series: Moving Through Mark
Donald Cantrell
Mark 14: 54, 66-72
Theme: ''Peter woefully sinned, but he wonderfully wept''
I - Peter's Distant Radius (54)
II - Peter's Dreadful Rejections (66 - 71)
III - Peter's Deafening Rooster (68, 72)
IV - Peter's Despairing Remorse (72, Matthew 26: 75)
The Value of a Tear
There was a little girl who was late coming home for supper. Her mother made the expected irate parent's demand to know where she had been.
The little girl replied that she had stopped to help Janie, whose bicycle was broken in a fall. ''But you don't know anything about fixing bicycles,'' her mother responded.
''I know that,'' the girl said. ''I just stopped to help her cry.''
Let's Kill It
Judge Alexander M. Sanders, Jr., the Chief Justice of the South Carolina Court of Appeals, tells a story about what happened when his daughter Zoe was just three years old.
Sanders came home from work one day to find his home - and especially his young daughter - in a state of turmoil. Zoe's pet turtle had died, and she was crying as if her heart would break. Zoe's mother had been dealing with the situation all day and declared that it was now Dad's turn to try and make things better.
Sanders told Zoe that they could go to the pet store and buy another one just like the one who had died. Yet even at three, Zoe was smart enough to know that a turtle is not a toy. There's really no such thing as getting another one just like the one who died. And so Zoe's tears continued. Desperate to quiet his little girl's tears, he said, ''I tell you what, we'll have a funeral for the turtle.'' Being three years old, she didn't know what a funeral was.
Scrambling to come up with an explanation - as well as something that would get her mind off the turtle's demise; he said, ''A funeral is like a birthday party. We'll have ice cream and cake and lemonade and balloons, and all the children in the neighborhood will ...
Series: Moving Through Mark
Donald Cantrell
Mark 14: 54, 66-72
Theme: ''Peter woefully sinned, but he wonderfully wept''
I - Peter's Distant Radius (54)
II - Peter's Dreadful Rejections (66 - 71)
III - Peter's Deafening Rooster (68, 72)
IV - Peter's Despairing Remorse (72, Matthew 26: 75)
The Value of a Tear
There was a little girl who was late coming home for supper. Her mother made the expected irate parent's demand to know where she had been.
The little girl replied that she had stopped to help Janie, whose bicycle was broken in a fall. ''But you don't know anything about fixing bicycles,'' her mother responded.
''I know that,'' the girl said. ''I just stopped to help her cry.''
Let's Kill It
Judge Alexander M. Sanders, Jr., the Chief Justice of the South Carolina Court of Appeals, tells a story about what happened when his daughter Zoe was just three years old.
Sanders came home from work one day to find his home - and especially his young daughter - in a state of turmoil. Zoe's pet turtle had died, and she was crying as if her heart would break. Zoe's mother had been dealing with the situation all day and declared that it was now Dad's turn to try and make things better.
Sanders told Zoe that they could go to the pet store and buy another one just like the one who had died. Yet even at three, Zoe was smart enough to know that a turtle is not a toy. There's really no such thing as getting another one just like the one who died. And so Zoe's tears continued. Desperate to quiet his little girl's tears, he said, ''I tell you what, we'll have a funeral for the turtle.'' Being three years old, she didn't know what a funeral was.
Scrambling to come up with an explanation - as well as something that would get her mind off the turtle's demise; he said, ''A funeral is like a birthday party. We'll have ice cream and cake and lemonade and balloons, and all the children in the neighborhood will ...
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