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Sometimes forgiveness is hard work. As we complete our series today on forgiveness I think it is important to state the obvious: Sometimes forgiveness is hard to do. Other times it is simple and easy. The greater the hurt the harder it may be. Forgiveness is NOT reconciliation. Though I believe forgiveness…

Make Forgiveness Your Aim Who Killed Sara? is a television series about a young man who went to prison for a crime he didn’t commit — murdering his sister Sara — with the promise from a very powerful and connected man that he’d only serve two-months. In exchange for his corporation he and mother would…

The word "remission" is from the King James Version of the Bible. Whether it stands for the elimination of cancer or sin, remission is a powerful word!

Did He forgive you? The freeing of a person from guilt and its consequences, including punishment; usually as an act of favour, compassion or love, with the aim of restoring a broken personal relationship. Forgiveness can involve both the remission of punishment and the cancellation of debts. Manser,…

Forgiveness is the release, on the part of the creditor or offended party, of any expectation that a debt will be repaid or that an offender will receive punishment for an offense. When describing the removal of an inappropriate offense in this way, the removal does not condone the behavior or suggest…

Intro; All of us have been hurt by someone before and have had a hard time forgiving them. When we don’t forgive, the memory of the hurt darkens our past, clouds the present and shackles our future. Forgiveness is an integral part of the Christian’s life. We have been forgiven in Christ therefore we…

Live produces pain, hurt, and trauma. To live means we will be hurt and have pain. We all have traumas we carry. Some may call this baggage. We eye the evil face to face and we call it what it is. Only realists can be forgivers.-Lewis B. Smedes To forgive we must remember differently. This is the main…

Mercy=not getting what we deserve. This is very simplified definition. Grace=getting what we do not deserve. A simplified definition though it is way more complex and deep than just this. Forgiveness is based on mercy. Justice demands a payment and mercy says forgiveness can be made by accepting a payment…

Our Scripture lesson this morning is taken from Luke 5:12-26 : While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will;…

Forgiveness is a core tenet of the Christian faith. The Bible speaks of the importance of forgiving one another, as well as asking for forgiveness. It is important to forgive others, in order to move forward in life and continue to grow and become more and more like Jesus. Learn more in the message Forgive One Another by Pastor Shawn.

Forgiveness 21 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” forgive-to stop blaming or taking an offense into account. It means, at its best and easiest a very simple concept: to let go. 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not…

I need to share with you a happening to being what I believe God desires me to share with you today. It might be tough to follow and I encourage you not to jump to the end or get overwhelmed by each event but to see if you find yourself feeling the feelings I felt as I share with you what I was going…

What is forgiveness and how does it affect our lives? Forgiveness, according to the Bible, is generally understood as God's promise not to count our sins against us. Biblical forgiveness requires us to repent of our past by confessing and turning away from our old life of sin and growing in faith and…

Intro; Andy and Dave were best friends from childhood. Andy came from a very influential family in town and were faithful members at the Baptist church. Dave was from the wrong side of town and his family did not attend church. But this societal difference did not affect their friendship in life. They…

Introduction This morning i want to tell you the story of one mountain that God has used to teach his followers for over 4,000 years. and Even though we see very different stories coming from this mountain top, The message it proclaims is the same. It is a message of the gospel- The Message that Faith…

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I repented . For those of you that don’t know repentance is a spiritual word, it’s really a Christian word that means to feel sorrow for a wrong that was done or a good not done - a sin, ask God for forgiveness for the sin, and commitment to obey Christ in that area again. Like when an addict admits…

The story of Hashim Garrett is told in the series Jesus the Game Changer by Olive Tree Media . Hashim was 15 and a member of one of the gangs of Brooklyn. He was shot in the back with a machine gun by another gang member and left a paraplegic. Recovering in hospital after the shooting, he was depressed…

Introduction 1 Samuel 24:1-22 1 After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the Desert of En Gedi.” 2 So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats. 3 He came to the sheep pens along…

Forgiven Mark 2:1–12 (ESV) What is the most distinctive benefit that Christianity has to offer the World? There are some people who think the great legacy of Christianity is a kind of morality, a kind of ethical approach to life. There are others who think that the great legacy of Christianity is that…

Whether someone is in a wellness program or in athletic training, there eventually comes a moment in which all progress seems to come to a halt: the dreaded plateau. The plateau is that situation you arrive in where whatever you were doing no longer produces the same results. The diet only gets you to…

When someone tells you they’ll do something and then backs out it can be aggravating, especially if it was something important. Today we’re looking at a disciple who did that to Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary journey. From Paphos, Paul and his companions sailed to Perga in Pamphylia, where…

We are reminded that God graciously forgives our debts. We are encouraged to show compassion to others kneeling at Jesus' feet.

Only Jesus has the authority to forgive sins.

God’s Mercy and Forgiveness: Jonah Prays Last week we learned that Jonah found himself out of the will of God and in the belly of a great fish! Jonah was in the Biblical School of Correction and he was taking some advanced courses! We've learned about the dilemma of the disobedient. God had captured…