Today now is. The mistakes, sins, boo boos of yesterday are over. Absolutely! Learn from them but also learn from the positives as well – and accentuate those. The not so positives and sins – run to Jesus and even if you’ve committed them before – remember 1 John 1:9 which gives a way to […]
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Frightening word????? Bad person?? When you hear the word, repent, do you immediately feel guilty? And if ‘guilty’… of what? Do you try and distance yourself from whoever spoke the word regardless of circumstances? But do you realize that you repent often. Every time you change your mind… you repent, and I realize that this
I know I’ve mentioned this before but it is soooo very relevant in a variety of ways. Recently I was faced with a difficult relational problem. Frustrated and a bit irritated, I decided I would just walk away. Good plan… yes? Partially. My reality is that I was also walking away with unresolved ‘forgiveness’ –
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Think about it… who gives us so many opportunities to ‘get it right’, understand, know, grow, change? The only Person gracious enough to understand our stumblings, attempts, wrong motives, etc. is Jesus. And what does He do for us? “Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience
The God of second, third, forty-fifth, ninety-nineth chances Read More »
[If there seems to be a theme emerging…. ummm, yes. And each builds on each other – we need to act on ‘it’ all.]I know I’ve written on our issue of ‘accepting’ … there’s always more questions and more to learn. I just wrote a post on ‘Always Forgiven’ and raised the following: “And after
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There’s a teaching that seems to be a current talking point that I’m not completely understanding. It goes something like this: the believer is forgiven for ALL his sins even before he commits them! Obviously, being a believer is the requirement for that …. but is this ‘license’? If it sounds like it is… I
I’m a huge fan of forgiveness. I do not have a problem seeking it when I know I’m wrong. Why? A number of reasons… I don’t need to carry the baggage of my (unrepented) poor behavior or sin. I still have enough ‘junk’ in me (though God’s not done with me yet) that adding to
Yes, I know I’ve written on forgiveness before… this topic always bears repeating. Besides, there are so many different aspects to the word – forgive. This point is – are you quick to forgive, requested or not? How good a forgiver are you? Are you a willing forgiver? Do you forgive and forget? What if
This used to be the mindset of the church, in my opinion. The problem is that this belief/approach seems to have been expanded to also including … and accepting the sin. This approach is really untenable. If the church begins changing how God views sin, then we are replacing Him. No thank you. Sin is
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I am fond of quoting (and applying) 1 John 1:9, AMP. (But also remember Matthew 6:14-15) “If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just [true to His own nature and promises], and will forgive our sins and cleanse us continually from all unrighteousness [our wrongdoing, everything
BEING Forgiven … accepted? Read More »
Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!
