Posts tagged “Forgiveness”
Your reality
It’s interesting how perspectives can be misunderstood. Take church during a February blizzard, for example. If services are held in the snowy conditions: “How…
You have to forgive
Are you familiar with the Lord’s Prayer, the prayer in which the Lord Jesus urged us to ask God for forgiveness as well as…
Glob remover
Ever feel like there’s something wrong with you even when you didn’t do something wrong? Lewis Smedes helps put that feeling into words in…
Already clean
If you struggle to believe that God likes you due to the overwhelming evidence of your sinfulness, listen closely to Jesus. He told his…
Every spiritual blessing
When I read all 389 Bible passages that use the word bless/blessed/blessing, I noticed a distinctive shift from the Old Testament to the New….
100% saved
Imagine if you lived an average American life (77 years or 28,207 days) and you only had to be good 1% of the time…
God’s forgiveness is limitless
Biblical forgiveness is not like the express checkout at your local grocery store—maximum 15 items. Instead, God calls you to forgive and forgive and…
Lamb over me
I was studying the Bible with a Chinese friend at our church. We were looking at the word righteousness, and one of the Bible…
Hope after an affair
I sat down with a woman a few years after her husband’s affair. After recounting the pain and struggle, she told me about the…
How to heal from infidelity
I interviewed a number of couples from my church that had been through and healed from an affair. I then developed an equation to…
Adultery? Don’t!
Of the 55 uses of the word adultery in the Bible, the very first one that shows up is this: “You shall not commit…
Jesus makes you truly great
What does it mean to be truly great? If you were to ask Merriam-Webster, it would say greatness is the quality of being exceptionally…