UPFRONT December 11, 2006 ISSUE

Always another chance

DANIS MUTCHLER, SENIOR DESIGNER

Who doesn't have regrets, large or small? Thank God—literally—for Christ Jesus' teaching that we can always turn around and do right!

If anyone ever felt the need for redemption, it must have been Saul of Tarsus, when he was suddenly confronted with the wrongness of his misdeeds at the Christ's questioning, "Why persecutest thou me?" Saul had been making "havoc of the church," persecuting the followers of the Lord with "threatenings and slaughter." That rebuke must have come to him with great love, though, because Saul was immediately drawn to it. He embraced a reformed attitude and behavior.

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