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New evidence is sometimes brought into court that completely changes the aspect of the case. If you have been on a jury, you would not like to tell your fellow jurors how many times you have changed your mind while you have heard the evidence. If you have listened attentively, I expect you have had half…

Think what an injury and injustice would be inflicted upon all the honest men in London if the thieves were never punished for their roguery. It would be making the innocent suffer if you allowed the guilty to escape. God, therefore, not out of arbitrary choice, but from necessity of rightness, must…

Guilt is very suspicious. When you have done wrong to a man, you cannot believe him. Nothing renders you so full of doubt toward another as your own consciousness of having acted unjustly toward him. Now, when a sense of guilt comes over the soul, nature begins to say, “Can the Lord be a sin-pardoning…

We never find Adam afraid of God or of any manifestation of Deity while he was in Paradise an obedient creature. But no sooner had he touched the fatal fruit than he found that he was naked, and hid himself. When he heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, Adam was…

At the end of World War II, some 50 European Jews decided to take an eye for an eye. These young men and women had seen the Nazis slaughter their families and communities and were “consumed with hatred.” Led by the charismatic partisan, Abba Kovner and calling themselves the avengers, the group plotted…

Nina Harris told her husband Allan exactly what she wanted for Valentine’s Day. “I would like some tulips,” she said. Allan was not listening, at least that is what Nina says. When she finished her first cup of coffee on St. Valentine’s Day, Allan gave her the Valentine’s Day gift he thought she ordered.…

Carlotta Flores, owner of the El Charro restaurant in Tucson, said a former employee sent them $1,000 and an apology for stealing from them years earlier. The letter came from a woman who said she worked at the restaurant while attending school in the 1990s. The woman said a waiter encouraged her to…

In his book, Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You, Andy Stanley writes, "Secrets lose their power when exposed to light. The light that exposes our secrets and frees the heart from the oppressive power of guilt is confession." –Jim L. Wilson Enemies of the Heart,…

In his book, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, Peter Scazzero writes, “It’s important to distinguish shame from guilt. Guilt is about something I do. . . . It is one mistake I made, not a reflection of my entire person. Shame on the other hand is about who I am.” —Jim L. Wilson The Emotionally Healthy…

The police department in Minersville, Pennsylvania recently received a letter containing a $5 bill and note explaining that the sender wanted to clear their conscience. Police Chief Michael Combs said the note read, “Dear PD, I’ve been carrying this ticket around for 40 plus years. Always intending to…

At the same time each night, Jerry Lynn gets a loud reminder of the mistake he made 13 years ago. In 2004, the Penn¬syl¬vania man was trying to find the right spot to drill a hole for a TV cable. He had the bright idea of lowering an alarm clock, tied to a piece of string, down an air vent. He set it…

Pennsylvania police said a very obvious clue led to the arrest of a man charged with stealing a pot of meatballs. They found the man with red sauce smeared on his face and clothes. Authorities in Luzerne County charged Leahman Glenn Robert Potter with burglary, criminal trespass and theft by unlawful…

A study by LifeWay Research suggest that people worry more about avoiding shame than they do about guilt or fear. Scott McConnell, executive director at LifeWay Research, said they wanted to know if guilt was a major issue of Americans and if the church was addressing issues that concerned Americans…

U.S. Olympic doctor Larry Nassar has been accused and found guilty of molesting hundreds of underage girls as both the Olympic Gymnastics doctor and a doctor and professor at Michigan State University. The first girl to allege publicly that Nassar was a child molester was Rachael Denhollander. She was…

Joe Scheidler, the founder of the Pro-Life Action League, said, “Truth is truth and it always will be true. Life begins at the moment of fertilization. That’s biologically sound. Whether you believe that or not depends a lot on your own wishes. The mind is not happy with a lie. Ninety-some percent of…

The banker in a small town in New York was charged with driving while intoxicated. To keep his arrest from becoming known he purchased all 1000 copies of the local paper for $1.25 each. Now, not only do the people in his town know about it, it has been published in national magazines.—Jim L. Wilson and…

While America was celebrating its bicentennial in 1976, someone stole a special American flag from the Weston Observatory in Manchester, New Hampshire. The flag was hanging while the observatory was undergoing repairs, and an unknown person climbed up some scaffolding and took it. Many local citizens…

Ten years have passed since NFL-player-turned Army-corporal; Pat Tillman was killed in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan. One of the three Army Rangers who opened fire that day says he cannot get away from the fact that Tillman’s death might be his fault. In a television interview Stephen Elliott…

Twenty-seven years after he stole a Color TV from the Norwalk, Connecticut Jewish Center, Randy Iannacone turned himself in to the police, who booked him for the crime. Though the Jewish Center closed in April of 1989, the 60-year old man still is working to make things right. –Jim L. Wilson http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-turns-self-stealing-tv-1989-n555411…

Bob Ebeling spent 30 years of his life feeling guilty over his inability to avert the explosion that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. In 1986, Ebeling was a booster rocket engineer at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol. He and several colleagues were worried that cold temperatures the night…

In 1941, a ten-year-old boy and his friend went to Lamb’s Grill in Salt lake City for lunch. After the boys ate, they realized they couldn’t pay the bill which totaled $1, so they ran away. For the next 70 years, the guilt associated with that event haunted the man who is now in his eighties. Though…

An Ohio man chose to wear a sign proclaiming that he was a thief, rather than go to jail for his crime. Greg Davenport pleaded no-contest to theft charges for shoplifting at a local Wal-Mart. A municipal judge found Davenport guilty and gave him the option of wearing the sign outside the store eight…

Thirty years later, a guilty conscience led someone to return a large metal sign to the police department in New Smyrna Beach Florida. Officials say the sign reading, “New Smyrna Beach says No to Drugs,” came in the mail, along with a $50 money order and a note asking officials to use the money to reinstall…

Portland State University doesn’t charge late fees for overdue library books. That is quite a relief for the person who recently returned two books that were checked out in 1963. The library says someone returned books entitled,”Basic Principles of Speech” and “Preface to critical reading.” A note that…