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Garden of the Gods: Garden of Betrayal
Gethsemane was not only a garden of desperate prayer. It was also a garden of betrayal, and betrayal of two kinds. 18:1 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron
Continue reading...Daniel 9:1-19, Daniel’s Confession
Jeremiah 25:11-13 says, “11 This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 Then after seventy years are completed, I will
Continue reading...Are we supposed to forgive the devil?
Question: My 7-year-old asked me a question that I don’t know how to answer, ” Mom, the bible teaches us to forgive right, and we are supposed to forgive those who do bad things to us right? Are we
Continue reading...What does God do about our unconfessed sins?
Question: What does God do with the sins that you have not confessed and repented of, in the event of your untimely death? I know 1 John 1:9 says that if we confess, but what if you don’t, or have committed
Continue reading...Will God forgive us when we break our promise not to sin?
Question: Hey! I have a question I have been wanting to know for a while now and I was wondering if you could answer it? Okay, so does God still love you and forgive you even if you have made a promise
Continue reading...If Christians are forgiven, why are we going to be judged?
Question: It says in the Bible that those who are in Christ are free from condemnation. If this is so, why then will we face judgment? And child molesters, rapists, and murderers, are they also free from
Continue reading...Joseph’s Brothers and His Death – Genesis 50:15-26
Receiving forgiveness. Easy? Not always. Sometimes we don’t receive it because we’re too proud to be humbled in that way. Sometimes we feel what we have done is too awful to forgive.
Continue reading...Jacob Meets Esau – Genesis 33
When I was in high school I interacted with a guy who wanted to challenge all aspects of my faith. Years later he did some work for a person I worked with and found out she knew me and asked her to tell
Continue reading...I Will Repay It – Philemon 1:17-25
Is Christianity the only religion that speaks of God giving forgiveness? No. But it is the only religion that bases that forgiveness in sacrifice or payment of the penalty for sin, the sacrifice of
Continue reading...You Were a Forgiving God to Them – Psalm 99
It is most interesting in this psalm that three great heroes in Israel’s history are mentioned, three priests, we are told. We may not normally think of Moses as a priest, but rather as Israel’s
Continue reading...Revive Us Again – Psalm 85
How many times can we mess up and God still forgives us? The psalmist believed he could ask again and again. We ask again and again in our hymn, Revive Us Again. To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the
Continue reading...Purge Me and I Shall Be Clean – Psalm 51
This is what is called a penitential psalm. It is akin to Psalm 32. This psalm gives us the historical background to David’s penitence (repentance), and Psalm 32 may have come out of this same
Continue reading...Discipline Me, Forgive Me – Psalm 38
This is a penitential psalm as well as a plea for rescue from the enemy. When our enemies see that we have messed up, sinned, they often take advantage of that to make things worse for us. David has
Continue reading...Forgiveness – Psalm 32
Paul quotes this wisdom psalm of David in Romans 4 as he seeks to defend his understanding of the gospel. Salvation is by faith alone, not works. David confirms this when he says there is the blessing
Continue reading...Gratitude and Love – Luke 7:36-50
“Kubacka, Finkenauer, Rusbult, and Keijsers (2011) evaluated the effects of gratitude on loving “relationship maintenance” behaviors, how gratitude influences positive behaviors towards
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