Connecting: How Difficult is it?

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation....

The Cost of Forgiveness

“… and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” Matthew 6:12. “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it...

The Hypocrisy of Unforgiveness

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your...

Does Forgiving mean Forgetting

“…and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” Matthew 6:12. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who...

The Expectation to Forgive

Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors – Matthew 6:12 “I forgive but I won’t forget” was the actual verbiage of one upset person to the other standing in front of them. This came on the heels of an attempt to resolve some awkward differences. The...