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Learning to Forgive

Ministry Monday: Learning to Forget

7 March 2010
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I don’t know about you, but my biggest struggle on the road to complete forgiveness is not the forgiving, it is the forgetting. That darn memory of mine is quick as a whip to remember an infraction! It stirs up a lot of unpleasant feelings for both me and Shane sometimes, the “infractor”. It is [...]

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Ministry Monday: Forgiveness as an Example

14 February 2010
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Honestly, there are times when I just don’t want to forgive. I just don’t feel like being forgiving. Sometimes, I enjoy being mad. Yes, I really said that. It is part of my personality. I am very type-A, I like things my way, and sometimes forgiveness is just too much for me. And, then I [...]

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Ministry Monday: Forgive for Others

8 February 2010
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Forgiveness is hard. Period. I struggle with forgiving others because, many times in my mind, the person who has wronged me does not deserve my forgiveness. Pretty harsh, huh? But, that is our human nature… it is not in us to automatically dish out forgiveness to those who have wronged us. We easily slide into [...]

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Ministry Monday: Forgive for Yourself

31 January 2010
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Last week, was an overview and introduction to the mini-series Learning to Forgive. The first step in forgiveness is to forgive for yourself. When someone has wronged you, it is easy to become embittered towards him or her. This person can do nothing right in your eyes; “he/she deserves this punishment,” you think. Even when [...]

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Ministry Monday – Learning to Forgive, part 1

24 January 2010
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Forgiveness. Wikipedia defines forgiveness as, “the process of concluding resentment, indignation or anger as a result of a perceived offense, difference or mistake, and/or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution. Forgiveness has been on my heart a lot lately, not necessarily because I have been hurt and need to forgive, but just sitting at the [...]

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