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Mercy in the Dust: Jesus and the Woman in John 8

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(Reflections from Sunday Morning's Sermon) The holiest sound in that temple that day wasn’t the law being quoted—it was the stones being dropped. When the noise of accusation faded, silence took the room. The dust hung heavy in the air like smoke after battle. One by one, the Pharisees slipped away until only two figures …

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Stones in Our Hands (John 8:1–5, 9)

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(Reflections from Sunday Morning's Message) They came early in the morning—religious men with holy words on their lips and hard stones in their hands. The scribes and Pharisees, the professional and the pious, arrived not for worship but for war. They brought with them a woman, trembling, shamed, caught “in the very act.” They said …

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