Forgiveness

Psychologists and psychiatrists today generally agree that forgiveness is a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance or anger toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness.

Dr Tony Evans in his book Detours  divides forgiveness into two categories: unilateral and transnational. If  we forgive someone unilaterally we don’t expect a response. We forgive and forget.  That doesn’t mean we were not impacted by the  or words by the  ocean we are forgiving; it just means we are no longer allowing What they said or did to take up residence in our  minds and thoughts.

If you choose transnational forgiveness you will try to reconcile the relationship with the person  whose actions or words caused you to harbor resentment and  unforgiveness.

Must we confess our sins to be forgiven?

Saint Or Sinner?

Will Your Sins Find You Out?

By Dr. John Ed Mathison
Executive Director
John Ed Mathison Leadership Ministries

“Be sure your sins will find you out.”  I have heard that growing up.  It is true.  Richard Eggers discovered it recently.

EL Not Guilty

This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. Romans 3:22-24 (NIV).

When I was just a little guy I threw a hammer through our picture window.

“Daddy, Do You Still Love Me?”

Our men’s group at church is studying the “not a fan” video series. Kile Idleman, creator of the series and author of the book by the same name, told a story about his daughter. She was playing with her mom’s fingernail polish and spilled most of the bottle on their white

I Hate Holly

No plant on God’s green earth is more stubborn and troublesome than holly.

Yeah, Yeah, I know. It symbolizes