Someone made the statement: "To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent." I sometimes wonder if we believe that. True forgiveness is still one of the most remarkable traits a human can possess!A few years ago, Hildegard Goss-Mayr of the "International Fellowship...
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:32When our boy Jacob was six months old, I learned the greatest lesson of loving and forgiving that I guess I’ve ever learned.I went...
"I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them." - Mark 3:28The novelist, A. J. Cronin, tells a story from his own experience as a doctor that catches the wonder of the gift of grace. Cronin was a friend of the Adams family who lived...
"And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day." -- Luke 5:26At one end of the hall sat Jacob.I was seated at the other end.And a new Lil' Tykes dump truck was rolling down from his end to my...
Scripture affirms that humans are "sinners" – lawbreakers, evildoers, people who have fallen short of the divine ideal. But lawbreaking isn't the real point. We have broken God's heart by failing to experience the good he created us to know and to embrace the peace...
Proverbs 19:22 What a man desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar.Years ago, when I ministered in Scotland, there were two elderly sisters in the congregation. Both of them had been members of the church all of their lives. One of them lived on a...
I sometimes shrink from the memories of my childhood, especially my adolescence and teenage years. My father drank heavily. My mother was continually depressed, and often non-communicative. We moved from place to place, just often enough to reinforce the feeling that...