Blog: August 2023
When Life Is a Blur
August 24, 2023
Sometimes life feels like a blur. You go through your days juggling dozens of issues, questions, pressures—all while trying to keep up on that to-do list. Your attention darts between health struggles, relationship needs, home maintenance problems, financial market volatility, political turmoil, job demands … and it feels exhausting.
I don’t know about you, but for me in such times I can lose track of “first things.” That’s why it was such a gift this past Wednesday to join our Prayer Gathering, sit still, listen to the reading of God’s ...
Forgiven & Forgiving
August 04, 2023
Last Sunday’s sermon took us to the topic of forgiveness: be ready to forgive your brother or sister in Christ not just seven times, but “seventy-seven times” (Matthew 18:22). In other words, don’t keep count; let mercy flow from your heart freely. But a matter that’s not spelled out in Matthew 18 is this: what if the person who sins against you does not repent of his or her wrongdoing? Is the Christian still obliged to forgive in that case?
Consider Luke 17:3-4: Jesus says, “If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive ...
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