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Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 51
Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 51 126. Q. What is the fifth petition? A. “And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” That is: be pleased, for the sake of Christ’s blood, not to...
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Everyday Resurrection Life
This week’s Border Watch article includes thoughts about the end of daylight saving and how meeting the resurrected Jesus manifests an everyday lifestyle of reconciliation and forgiveness. The editor...
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The Bali Executions And Breaking Cycles Of Retribution
This week’s article for The Border Watch is a response to the executions of Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and six others; along with the public reactions to the circumstances of their deaths. The paper...
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Cultivating A Heritage Of Forgiveness
This week’s Border Watch piece was a reflection on a parenting video I’d watched the week before. The paper titled this ‘Actions Key To Forgiveness’. It’s such an inescapable part of parenting that you...
View ArticleA Weekly Routine Wearing Daily Tracks Of Grace On The Soul (via Zac Hicks)
Zac Hicks writes about corporate worship training and equipping disciples of Jesus for their day to day life following Christ. Part of [the church Hicks was attending at the time] weekly service...
View ArticleOnce And For All (via Scotty Smith)
From Scotty Smith’s prayer/blog Heavenward: The Once-and-For-All-ness of Jesus’ Single Sacrifice for Our Sins Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day,...
View ArticleOn Forgiveness And Forbearance (via Simone Richardson)
Simone Richardson writes about an unhelpful tendency to mistake situations where forgiveness is extended when what should be properly offered is forbearance. Forgiveness is what’s needed when God’s...
View ArticleThe Resting State Of God (via Ed Welch)
Some helpful thoughts and a turn of phrase that appealed to me (…That is his resting state) from Ed Welch. You are preaching to people with real problems and needs. Guilt is, indeed, a real problem,...
View ArticleRachael Denhollander: Where Justice And Forgiveness Meet (via Murray Campbell)
Murray Campbell writes about an extraordinary victim statement that was spoken by Rachael Denhollander in the US. Rachael and many others were subject to sexual abuse under the guise of medical...
View ArticleJ.B. Roane And The Case Of The Belated Apology by Larry Parsley
At Mockingbird Larry Parsley offers a piece of short fiction featuring J.B. Roane – Pastor for Hire. Rev. Roane is engaged by a man named Thornton who needs his assistance in conveying a belated...
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Resilient Relationships And Daily Repentance (via Fleming Rutledge)
Fleming Rutledge writes about the final prophetic promise of the Christian Old Testament, and how that foreshadows the Gospel hope and the creation wide need for it. The final words of the Christian...
View ArticleThe First Awkward Moment Ever (via Sammy Rhodes)
The experience of awkwardness and shame is not to be minimised, denied, ignored or, worst of all, hidden. Owning shame is the precursor to experiencing grace. From Sammy Rhodes: If you look behind your...
View ArticleForgiveness Is Not A Self-Help Therapy (via Chad Bird)
Chad Bird writes about forgiveness, observing that forgiving others is not something we do for our own therapeutic benefit. Followers of Jesus forgive because we have to pass on the forgiveness that...
View ArticleForgiveness And A Hug For His Brother’s Murderer
If you haven’t seen this anywhere else, watch it now. If you have seen it, watch it again. From the FOX 10 Phoenix Youtube page where this is posted: A former Dallas police officer was sentenced...
View ArticleEmbodying Forgiveness In A Forgiveness Free Culture (via Tim Keller)
Tim Keller writes an essay premised on the concept that grievance is growing as the leveraging authority in contemporary culture. Grievance providing the capacity for superiority in relationships...
View ArticleForgiveness – The Essence Of Christian Living In Open Time (via Jeff Hual at...
Tomorrow is Pentecost. Since the beginning of December Christians have reflected on the first and second comings of Jesus, of the humility of his life and the triumph of his death and death and...
View ArticleGet Low – Lay My Burden Down
Get Low is currently available to view on Australia’s SBS online portal. A movie with a wonderful cast (Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Lucas Black, and more fine actors in the ensemble),...
View ArticleYou Will Run Out Of Sin Before God Runs Out Of Grace (via Jerry Parries at...
God not only keeps forgiving, he doesn’t even keep a score. Which is the only type of forgiveness by which any of us would be saved. From Jerry Parries at Key Life. I was sharing with my friend the...
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