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I'm sorry. When I was a teenager I was fixing a bike and as I was trying to get a nut off with a hammer and chisel, a metal
splinter went into my eye. It was so painful that it felt like a log. My eyes began
to tear from the pain. I had to feel my way from my grandmothers' chicken coop into the house, because
I could only open the uninjured eye for a split second. My grandmother tried to wash it and looked into
my eye, but could not see anything. My Dad took me to an eye surgeon who found a hole just off center of
my eye. He thought that a piece of metal might have gone into the eye. They put medicine
in my eye to relieve the pain, and a patch over the eye, and then he sent me to the hospital for an x-ray and told me if it
has gone into the eye he would have to operate. The x-ray did not show anything in the eye, but to this
day I can still see a squiggly line just off center in that eye if I look for it. Such a tiny metal splinter
to cause such pain and leave a scar for life. Quite a lesson! When drilling a hole into
a piece of metal I can create fine splinters (almost dust) that appear to be absolutely harmless, but if they were to accidently
get into ones eye, it would feel like a log.
Matthew 7:3-5 (NIV)
3 "Why do you look
at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
4
How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is
a plank in your own eye?
5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own
eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. Hear, read and study more on Matthew 7:3-5 So here I am hoping that I can help remove splinters from the eyes of others when I am the
one who put the splinters there that feel and look like logs when you look out from behind them. Should
I say, friend let me help you get that speck out of your eye, when I couldn't even see because of the board in my own
eye? Board nothing it was a log! No! This is why I am just sitting
in the back row in the balcony of my church. How can I share and help others when I am only beginning to
understand where and how I have been so wrong. I'm just starting to see how I have had a compulsion
to please others that developed into an addictive habit that has controlled me for thirty-three years. Hypocrite,
Jesus says, yes I am. First get rid of the board, then you will see to help your brother. Daily,
page by page with much prayer the log is coming out one splinter at a time. It has been very painful, but
in removing splinters (the sin) from my life, I can see more and more. Not just of myself, but understand
more and more of the pain I have caused others. As the pictures of this parable flashed
before my eyes, I began to weep before God, God what have I done? You gave me a gift to talk before audiences; you gave me
a gift to talk and communicate, to teach your word. You gave me a sincere desire to minister to the hurting.
You gave me a love for the hurting. I have taken that gift and bastardized it. I
have used it to manipulate and control. God, I'm sorry, God I'm sorry. I am
very sorry. I have hurt you and my friends. I realize that in what I saw as pleasing
and harmless has wounded and broken the hearts of those whom I loved and who loved me. I know what it is like to have a splinter in my eye. I know of the pain and I know about the scar.
I know that what I thought was a little splinter that I inflicted, has become a log when you're looking out from
behind it. I pray those whom I have hurt (my children, my in-laws, former in-laws, relatives,
step children and the hundreds of lives I have touched over the years) will know I am and have been praying for them.
I am very, very sorry that "I" allowed my sin to control me. Please forgive
me, I am sorry. Sam Horner 11/10/96
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I, Sam Horner, beg of you, Please don’t allow bitterness to destroy your life. Ahithophel had a right to be infuriated
and bitter as you may have. Please allow Pastor Damian Kyle’s teaching, “Breaking Free From the Barrenness of
Bitterness” to minister healing to you.
Listen to Pastor Damian Kyle explain how the
best friend and a counsel to King David had the right to be infuriated and bitter. The problem was that Ahithophel allowed
bitterness to take control of his life. Ahithophel was the grandfather of Bathsheba. Bathsheba’s husband had been murdered
by the king. Ahithophel’s bitterness leads him to try to destroy the king. The bitterness grew so great that Ahithophel tried to arrange the murder of King David
Himself. The store ends with bitterness leading to thousands dying and Ahithophel committing suicide.
Ahithophel knew nothing about Nathan’s
confrontation of “’David’, you are the man.’” (2 Samuel 12:7) Ahithophel knew nothing about David writing Psalms 51 to be read and sung before the congregation.
Pastor Damian Kyle
Calvary Chapel
Modesto
Breaking Free From the Barrenness of Bitterness This file is a large file but worth waiting
for. Left click to play or right click and save target as.
Psalms
31:22 (NIV)
In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from your sight!" Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called
to you for help. Hear, Read and Study more on Psalms 31:22
Judging Specks While Ignoring Planks Matthew 7:1-6
Pastor Damian Kyle of Calvary Chapel Modesto explains that it is not wrong to confront a brother or sister who is living in sin
nor is it wrong to judge false prophets at the same time Pastor Damian explains the problem of the Pharisees in how their
own pride of righteousness had to be justified by judging others while refusing to look at their own lives. [Emphasis
Added]
Listen
to Judging Specks While Ignoring Planks
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A
tribute to my Dad.
May he share with you what he has learned from his years of quiet study.
Below you will find
a link to a page with Bishop Malcolm Smith’s Unconditional Love Series concerning counseling for the hurting and abused.
I first heard these Bible teaching tapes when a friend of my youngest daughter gave them to her and then Debbie made copies
for me 20 years ago. I had lost all but just a few of the masters.
When searching through my fathers personal effects after his death in November
of 2010, I found that he had all of the copies. My father had these in his collection of well over 3000 tapes he had made
or bought over the last 30 years. His collection was mostly of book by book and verse by verse studies in the Word of God.
I was amazed to also find hundred of tape from Focus on the Family, Chuck Swindoll on family and another series on
parenting and healing the hurts in one’s life. I have no idea how my father came across the Bishop Malcolm Smith’s
Series but as a tribute to him I will post all here and to links throughout the Pure Word Counseling site.
Link to:
Unconditional Love Series by Bishop Malcolm Smith
Psalms
31:9-10 (NIV)
9 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body
with grief. 10 My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my
bones grow weak. Hear, Read and Study more on Psalms 31:9-10
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Personal
Testimony of Sammy Horner
A short testimony of Sammy Horner aka Sam Horner, Samuel Horner
I have had many
ups and downs in my life, but I can say that God has been faithful in showing His mercy and grace. He will not let us go.
He pursues with out relenting to bring us to our knees. I have learned what His mercy, grace and forgiveness are all about
and I can testify as David proclaimed in Psalms 51:8-13 (NKJV) Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out
all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your
presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous
Spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You.
God has granted me
the opportunity to teach and share with transgressors [Those who have missed the mark also] as a lay teacher, through Celebrate
Recovery and through an online ministry of counseling. http://www.purewordcounseling.com
The web site
has been a 24/7 online counseling site with subjects from abuse, rape and suicide to bitterness, anger and forgiveness. I have
just republished the site after completely rebuilding the site. The new site is now total focused on the Word as our
counsel and Jesus Christ as our Great Counselor with "Faith comes by hearing the Word" as the base of the counsel. The
newly published site is a return to “Pure Word Counseling” (Counsel) which is The Word of God as our Counsel and
Jesus Christ is our Great Counselor. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NKJV) Isaiah 9:6 (NKJV)
All of the scriptures on the site are links that
lead to the Blue Letter Bible with the pull down menu under the key verse which leads to more teaching.
“Pure Word Counseling” is totally free of charge to anyone
in need of counsel or to share as counsel for others in need.
The web site (a work in progress) can be reviewed
at http://www.purewordcounseling.com Please pray about this ministry, review our site, send comments about
our site, and please tell others about our site.
Sammy’s testimony has been
published on-line in a book titled “The Preacher and The Hooker”. The book was written from notes while studying in The Life Recovery Bible. The story is a horrible, bitter sweet, beautiful
love story of Hosea and Gomer with personal notes about a lady and her dysfunctional, adulterous, preacher-boy husband.
You are not alone. If you would like someone to talk to and to pray with you, Request prayer online now » Or you may call 1-877-247-2426 to pray with someone right now.
Remember, to hear, read and study more on any scripture on this site just clicking on a scripture
link. When you arrive at the new page you will be able to click on the pull down menu just below the first scripture for more
messages, outlines, studying and commentaries. Please feel free to download and share.
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