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Matthew 6:14-15 (NIV) For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.   God has bombarded me with challenging messages about forgiveness in my reading and conversations.  The ongoing, difficult…

Jonah 4:2, 10-11 (NLT) I knew that you are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. You are eager to turn back from destroying people. Then the Lord said “but Nineveh has more than 12,000 people living in spiritual darkness, not to mention all the animals.  Shouldn’t I…

Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from Him. The world and all…

Isaiah 1:18 (NLT) “Come now, let’s settle this,” says the Lord.  “Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow.  Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool.   Image courtesy of Morguefile.com Let’s talk laundry.  Can you clean a blood soaked cloth so…

Luke 14:26 (NLT) If you want to be my disciple, you must hate everyone else by comparison—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.     This makes no sense.  Hate our families?  Jesus tells us to love our neighbors and especially our…

Luke 1:37 For nothing is impossible with God.   God loves the impossible.  That’s when He shines.  When God brings us through an impossible situation, we have no choice but to acknowledge Him.  It is often the turning point in one’s faith.   In early September, I wrote that I felt called to an impossible…