1. Unprompted, without any warning, for no reason at all, without any instigation say, "I love you." And that will wash over your parents like a beautiful absolution.
  2. Sometimes our resistence to forgiveness is that we are attempting to give Christ-less grace.
  3. "An apology is a promise to never do it again." In this episode we disucss this common phrase, and the differnece between a confession and an apology.
  4. God gives us the power and authority to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to burdened sinners who entrust us with their pain, guilt, and defeat.
  5. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  6. When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
  7. Everyday Confessions and Learning How to Forgive
  8. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  9. It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.
  10. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
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