If we are the offended party, how are we to forgive the offender? Here are the only two possible scenarios: 1) The offender is NOT repentant. 2) The offender is repentant. In scenario #1, we are required to have a FORGIVING SPIRIT (or attitude) toward the person. If the offenese was sinful, we need to go…
Forgiveness by God is conditional. It is conditional upon Christ first and our repentance and faith in Him alone second. By definition, forgiveness involves 2 persons. One must be the offender and one must be the offended. In our salvation experience, God was the Offended and we were the offenders. We long for His forgiveness…
I left you hanging yesterday. Sorry about that! When we talk about forgiveness, we must understand that it is relational between at least 2 persons. God is a personal God – He is a Person. How does He forgive us? Unconditionally? No. Because of our disobedience and the ugliness of our sins, God forgives us…
How do we grant forgiveness? Are there different types of forgiveness? What is forgiveness? Forgiveness by definition involves 2 persons. It is relational. Forgiveness is NOT needed unless someone hurts someone else. If no one is hurt or offended, then forgiveness is NOT required. Nothing is wrong! By definition, someone has to hurt/offend someone else…
Jason Cooke, Shirley C., Bill Mann, Sam, Justin, and Jason Gray who worked like the Energizer Bunny to make our Cookout Celebration a success! They all put in a TON of work and I hope they rested on Sunday! They all deserve it in my opinion! There are others to thank, also, like Barry &…
Special thanks to Jason Cooke who is an integral part of this ministry. WIthout his SACRIFICIAL heart, TIL would NOT be where it is today. Jason is a rare person because he has faith in Christ, loves God’s Word, believes the Word is sufficient and that Christ is sufficient, gives to others with no thoughts…
When a person is born again, he/she becomes a child of God and is adopted into the family of God. It is a gift of salvation which cannot be earned and certainly is not deserved. The righteousness of Christ is placed upon the Christian and the sins of this person were already placed upon Christ…
One of the most hopeful passages of Scripture is in I Cor. 6:9-11: “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will…
Recently, I took my fam to see the second Chronicles of Narnia film based on the book by C.S. Lewis. There are several great themes in the movie, but one of them was about rushing in AHEAD of Christ. The Christ-like figure was Aslan, the lion, and the main characters were tempted to solve problems in…
I find that some people can pray and trust God for a “physical healing” better than they can for an “emotional healing” for an emotional problem (as it is called by secular psychologists). BOTH types of “healing” require the spiritual power of Christ and we should have the faith in Him for both. In fact, did…
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