By Ron Edmondson on Jun 10, 2022
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Understanding forgiveness doesn’t make it easier to forgive, but it does make it more meaningful. I believe understanding the process could make us more likely to offer the forgiveness we are commanded to give.
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By Ron Edmondson on Jun 11, 2022
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As difficult as forgiveness may be to extend, it is often a most important ingredient in healthy relationships and in being a completely healthy person.
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By Jeff K. Clarke on Oct 10, 2022
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“The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.” – Timothy Keller
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By Ron Edmondson on Jul 27, 2022
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"Suddenly I was feeling a stirring in my stomach. I became slightly nervous. It was a brief encounter, but I quickly realized I was being reminded of a few very painful experiences in my own leadership and life. I was recalling the emotions of betrayal."
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By Marshall Segal on Oct 3, 2022
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“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit,” (Psalms 34:18).
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By Joe Mckeever on Jul 15, 2022
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"Nothing is so lovely and so welcome and so healing in a church as for a member to go before the congregation and admit to his/her destructive behavior and ask for forgiveness."
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By Rod Arnold on Mar 14, 2025
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Here are some smart, practical things you can do to connect with more people in your community and give them a chance to get to know your church.
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By Joe Mckeever on Dec 14, 2023
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"Any pastor can tell you about it. Even when you do your best to serve God by ministering to His people, some church members are not going to forgive you. You didn’t do it their way, weren’t there when they called, didn’t jump at their bark." So how do you handle these kinds of situations?
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By Josh Read on Mar 11, 2026
Grace might be the most preached-on topic in the history of the church and the least understood. Every pastor has a grace sermon in their back pocket. The problem isn't that we preach it too rarely. The problem is that we've filed it under "God is nice to us" and moved on.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer identified this seventy years ago and named it precisely: cheap grace. Grace as doctrine, as principle, as system. Grace without discipleship, grace without the cross. Most congregations have heard enough grace sermons to believe God accepts them. Far fewer have heard one that made them uncomfortable.
This outline is for that second sermon. Not grace as comfort but grace as disruption. The kind that doesn't just forgive what you were but refuses to leave you there.
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