Most of the sermons you hear on InSight for Living are delivered at the local church where

Chuck Swindall serves as Senior Pastor.

But today we have the privilege of hearing a message that Chuck delivered to the students

at Dallas Theological Seminary, where he prepared for ministry more than 60 years ago.

In this particular message, Chuck reminded his audience that God uses our imperfections,

our mistakes, and our disappointments in redemptive ways.

And why is those who submit their deepest regrets to the one who promises to redeem them?

I was shocked when I sat where you're sitting in Chaffer Chapel back in the summer or

the really the early fall of 1959.

I was a first-year student sitting, not knowing what to expect from the chapel speaker.

I was really in for a surprise.

I think it was either his opening line or the major line of his message when he said,

when God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible person and crushes

him.

I put a chill down my back.

Even though I just recently come out of a tour of duty in the Marine Corps, even though

I was at that time approaching my mid-twenties, I had not been crushed.

Cynthia and I were happily married.

At that time we had no children, though four would come along in the years to come.

We had known the love of one another and of so many friends.

Our arrival at the school was an answer to prayer and my even having a place and a desk

at the school was just an act of God for which I, to this day, do not cease to give things,

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