In Sermon Illustrations: "Forgiving Others"

Bag Of Candy  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008

Bag of Candy A young boy was arrested and brought before the judge for taking a bag of candy from the shelf of a local store. The owner of the store pressed charges because he wanted the boy to learn a lesson. After a lecture from the judge, the judge asked the young boy if he had anything to say ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:1-17

Tags: Forgiveness General

Set Free  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 2, 2008

SET FREE A man said to his pastor: “I am a miserable sinner and there is no help available for me. I have prayed to God, I have tried to be good and I have tried to do the right thing at the right time, but I always seem to fail.” The pastor asked him: “Do you believe in the life, the death, and ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:1-17

Tags: Forgiveness In Jesus

Possibilities

Contributed by Bobby Bodenhamer on Oct 17, 2008

Possibilities He was born into wealth and was raised in a mansion. Today he wears prison gray after being convicted of planting a car bomb that took the lives of two members of his family. His almost unbelievable reversal of circumstances came after he tried to get control of a $10-million family ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness In Jesus

Denomination: *other

Peanuts Cartoon (Lucy Goes Up To Charlie Brown ...

Contributed by Christine Forehand on Oct 22, 2008

Peanuts cartoon (Lucy goes up to Charlie Brown with a paper and pen and says, “Here, sign this. It absolves me from all blame.” Then she goes to Shroeder with the same paper and says, “Here, sign this. It absolves me from all blame.” Finally she comes to Linus and says, “Here, sign this. It ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Denomination: Pentecostal

Karl Menninger, A Famed Psychiatrist, Once Said ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008

Karl Menninger, a famed psychiatrist, once said that if he could convince the patients in psychiatric hospitals that their sins were forgiven, 75 percent of them could walk out the next day! Source: Today in the Word, March ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Luther's Dream

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008

Luther's Dream The Good News: We are freed from all things; from which we could not be freed. In a dream, Martin Luther found himself being attacked by Satan. The devil unrolled a long scroll containing a list of Luther's sins, and held it before him. On reaching the end of the scroll Luther ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Dwight L. Moody, The 19th Century American ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008

Dwight L. Moody, the 19th century American evangelist, once said, "Forgiveness is not to say, "I will forgive, but not forget." It is not to bury the hatchet with the handle sticking out of the ground, so you can grasp it the ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Unforgiveness Has Been Framed As A Stress ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008

Unforgiveness has been framed as a stress reaction (Worthington & Scherer,2004). The negative health consequences of chronic stress and the physiological wear and tear of a hyper-aroused stress response have been observed in traumatized populations and in people who have endured extreme and/or ...read more

Tags: God's Forgiveness

What Riches Of Grace

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008

Charles Spurgeon said: "What riches of grace does free forgiveness exhibit! To forgive at all, to forgive fully, to forgive freely, to forgive ever! Here is a constellation of wonders, and when I think of how great my sins were, how dear were the precious drops which cleansed me from them, I am ...read more

Tags: God's Forgiveness

A Pardon Must Be Accepted  PRO

Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Dec 31, 2008

A PARDON MUST BE ACCEPTED About the year 1830, a man named George Wilson killed a government employee who caught him in the act of robbing the mails. He was tried and sentenced to be hanged. However, President Andrew Jackson sent him a pardon. But Wilson did a strange thing. He refused to accept ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Denomination: Pentecostal

Fix It!

Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 13, 2009

"FIX IT!" The Catholic archbishop and novelist, Andrew Greeley, brilliantly describes God’s redemptive work and holy clean-up as "God’s big crayon making crooked lines straight," but this only addresses the result, not the process. It reminds me of when, as a young boy, my mother and I would color ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Denomination: *other

He Pardons With Pardons

Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 14, 2011

HE PARDONS WITH PARDONS Parker, "You cannot conceive God's notion of pardon...When God forgives, He does not merely barely pardon...He pardons with pardons! When he casts our sins away it is not into a shallow pool, it is into the depths of ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Denomination: Baptist

Falling Down: Injustice

Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 14, 2011

FALLING DOWN: INJUSTICE Michael Douglas in the movie Falling Down, portrays a man who has lost his family and job. He goes off the deep end striking out at those whom he believes are the cause of the worlds injustices. In the end he takes his own life. The Lord Jesus came to a world full of ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness In Jesus

Denomination: Baptist

The Grizzly And The Skunk

Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 31, 2011

THE GRIZZLY AND THE SKUNK Dale Carnegie once noted that there was only animal that the grizzly bear would allow to eat with him. That animal is the skunk. Grizzly bears in Yellowstone Park often come to eat at the place where garbage is dumped. This huge bear can fight and beat almost any animal ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Denomination: Brethren

Now She Understands  PRO

Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 5, 2012

NOW SHE UNDERSTANDS A lady had two children. The older son was 7 years old and the little girl about 2½ years old. She heard this terrible scream upstairs and as she ran upstairs she found out that the little girl was pulling the hair of her brother. He was crying out in pain. The mother ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 18:21-35

Tags: Forgiveness General

Denomination: *other

They Were My Sins, But Not Anymore

Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 29, 2013

THEY WERE MY SINS, BUT NOT ANYMORE F.W. Farrar said, "Sometimes as we float down the river of life, memory flashes up from the hidden depths, and the dark wave is peopled with the innumerable faces of once-forgotten sins which menace us from the waters and prophecy of death. But God can enable us ...read more

Scripture: 2 Kings 17:10-16, 2 Kings 17:8-16

Tags: Forgiveness In Jesus

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Martin Luther Said "There Is No Justification ...  PRO

Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Mar 20, 2013

Martin Luther said "There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from ...read more

Scripture: Romans 6:1-2

Tags: Forgiveness In Jesus

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

God "Subdues" Our Sins

Contributed by Charles Jones on Apr 11, 2013

GOD "SUBDUES" OUR SINS The word "subdue" is such a powerful word. In the Hebrew, it is the word "kabash" (kaw-bash) meaning to "tread down, disregard, conquer, bring into subjection". The Hebrew word for "cast" is "shalak" (shaw-lak) which means "to hurl, to throw away". What an amazing ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

Denomination: Pentecostal

What Does "All" Mean?

Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 14, 2013

WHAT DOES "ALL" MEAN? I know people who are carrying around a load of guilt over the past and they're loaded down with this extra weight God doesn't want them to have. I remember a lady in my church in Wiesbaden I'll call Jill. Jill had rebelled against her parents, had been on drugs, had had ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness In Jesus

Denomination: Baptist

The Lawyer's Invitation

Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 1, 2013

THE LAWYER'S INVITATION A pastor told the true story of one of his church members, an attorney, who after meditating on several scriptures, decided to cancel the debts of all his clients that had owed him money for more than six months. He drafted a letter explaining his decision and its biblical ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness In Jesus

Denomination: Nazarene