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BREAKING YOUR BOX (20 OF 26)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Mark 14:1-9
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Breaking Your Box (20 of 26)
Series: Moving Through Mark
Donald Cantrell
Mark 14:1-9


Theme: ''I wonder how often we have broken our box for Jesus''


I - The Beautiful Aroma of Breaking Your Box (3)

II - The Belligerent Adversaries in Breaking Your Box (4 - 5)

III - The Benefactor Associated to Breaking Your Box (6 - 8)

IV - The Beautiful Acknowledgement of Breaking Your Box (9)

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Acts of Love

Kelly McGuire and her husband Sean were leaving a Bears game in Chicago when she spotted a homeless woman across the street. The woman held a sign reading ''I am in need of winter boots and winter clothing items.''

McGuire had a bag of warm clothing with her because she had worn layers for the 30 degree weather, and then took them off while she was eating dinner. She wrote on her FaceBook post, ''I had everything in that bag that she needed, shirts, sweatshirts, gloves, scarves, etc.''

After giving her the bag of clothing, McGuire sat down next to the woman and removed her boots, intending to walk to the train in her socks. That's when the woman stopped her and offered her the old, dirty boots she had been wearing. McGuire wrote, ''She, who had nothing, offered me these boots, her boots. I wore them all the way home.''

Her story received thousands of shares on FaceBook and she was invited onto the Ellen Show, where she shared her story again. At the end of the segment, Ellen gave McGuire ten thousand dollars, and instructed her to give a thousand dollars to ten friends, to pay it forward. Then Ellen gave her another ten thousand dollars for herself.

McGuire concluded her FaceBook post, ''If you have the urge to do something kind for someone, I encourage you to do it.''

Love...Costs

If you've got your notes, pull them out, I want to ask you one of those serious questions that I would really like you to ponder deeply.

I want you to imagine that I would give y ...

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