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My devotional book, What a Great Word, takes common words in Scripture and strives to redefine the words we imagine we know well. A word I keep relearning is “forgiveness”. More often than not, it comes about when I realize I have fallen short of what I hope to be, disappointed someone I care about, […]
In the Gospel of Matthew, a believer asks Jesus about forgiveness. Apparently, he is struggling with forgiving another believer. It seems he’s forgiven his friend several times already and is now wondering how many times he must keep forgiving him. Of course, he thinks seven times should be fair. No doubt, it was a surprise […]
Lately, I’ve been reading one of Pastor Timothy Keller’s earlier works called The Prodigal God. I appreciate Keller’s approach to trying to teach me things. He changes my perspective by weaving the spirit of God into every complex matter. He makes me want to understand God better than I do. Before, I started reading this […]
Have you ever had a chance meeting? Perhaps you sat next to someone on an airplane and the conversation you shared made a difference in your life. Maybe you were in line at Starbuck’s, and someone left you with a parting comment that intrigued you. In fact, you still think about it. A Samaritan woman […]
Psalm 30:2-3 in The Message version, says, “God, my God, I yelled for help and you put me together. God, you pulled me out of the grave, gave me another chance at life when I was down-and-out.” King David was a guy who appreciated second chances. Like us, he often made a mess of things, […]
So, as we consider the whole idea of forgiveness, it might be worth it to look at why God is so much better at it than humans are. After all, God forgives you and me every time we ask Him to. He forgives and then He lets the errors of our ways go, so neither […]
It appears that humans have been trying to avoid getting too close to God from the very beginning. Sometimes they knew they had done something incredibly wrong. Sometimes, they didn’t like the assignment God gave them. In the case of Adam and Eve, hiding from God was a new experience. After all, they had the […]
Most of us like to think of ourselves as being forgiving. We imagine we’re able to let the past slip into faded memory and that the wounds we both gave and received have long ago been packed up and put aside. After all, we know that forgiveness is a two-sided street and that both people […]
Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32, NLT The part of the Lord’s Prayer that we might find a bit tricky is that section that asks God to “forgive us as we forgive others.” The language is loftier than this phrase, but […]
Anger is one of those emotions we don’t readily bring up in polite conversation. After all, we’re nice people and we think there’s enough craziness in the world. If fact, we’d like to balance the scales, weighing in with compassion and kindness and those things that keep people calmly going about their business. Proverbs 29:11 […]
