Pulling Up Roots: How Unhealed Hurt Becomes the Offense We Carry
I kept telling myself the meeting didn’t matter, but the dismissal burrowed in. Unhealed hurt does that — it throws vines over the heart until everything feels gray. Offense becomes our armor; it also becomes our cage. Jesus invites another way: name the wound, pull the root, abide in Love. With him, we can trade resentment for release, guardedness for grace and grow green again.
Radical Forgiveness
Forgiveness isn’t a suggestion — it’s survival. Every day, offenses stack up: a rude driver, a snarky comment, a deep betrayal. Jesus calls us to forgive it all. Not later. Now.
Bible Study And Church Attendance May Stem Loneliness
A new study highlights the power of Scripture and church attendance in combating loneliness, an epidemic likened to smoking 15 cigarettes a day in its toll on health. Those engaged with the Bible or attending church weekly report dramatically lower loneliness rates. With forgiveness and meaningful connections at its core, faith offers a tangible antidote to isolation, inviting a deeper sense of belonging and community in a disconnected world.
Who Are Your Enemies?
Who’s the hardest person for you to pray for? Jesus’ command to love our enemies calls us to face those who’ve hurt or frustrated us with kindness and mercy. Moving beyond resentment isn’t easy, but every choice to forgive and show love brings us closer to living as God intended. This path transforms not just others, but also ourselves, inviting us into a deeper, faith-filled life.
‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’ Wrestles With The Right Questions
When forgiveness feels impossible, how do we move forward? ‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’ follows an artist as he confronts the pain of reconciling with his estranged father, raising questions about trauma, healing and redemption. With stunning imagery and a heartfelt narrative, the film challenges the boundaries of forgiveness and whether it always leads to reconciliation. It’s a story that asks you to reflect on your own relationships and what it takes to truly forgive.
God Forgiving is God Forgetting
When God forgives, he doesn’t hold on to the past, like many of us have been taught. His forgiveness transforms us, allowing us to release grudges and extend grace to others. As we experience God’s complete forgiveness, we are shaped into people who forgive with the same freedom. This is the power of living in his grace — learning to let go and forgive as we’ve been forgiven.
Confession: When Truth Demands a Witness
Confession is normal and necessary for followers of Jesus. It’s something many of us did spontaneously when we began following him. But it must be an ongoing thing for us, too.
Inside The Gospel According To ‘Fargo’
The ‘Fargo’ series deserves applause for dealing with difficult social and theological topics and for the ways it gets them right. But its agonizing repetitiveness and its social and theological missteps need to be noted as well so that we make sure we can actually solve the problems it is so eager to critique. Season five explores the Christian ideas of forgiveness, but what it misses about those ideas is as important as what it understands.
Finding Our Winding Way Toward Forgiveness
Forgiveness doesn’t mean denying or minimizing harm. It means releasing feelings of resentment or vengeance toward the person who did the harm. And doing that sets us free as much as we set free the other person.
Ways To De-Stress In An Anxious Age
We’re living in a stressful age. Paul Prather offers some reminders about dealing with presidential indictments, global warming, nightmarish customer service, artificial intelligence, road rage, grouchy spouses, and troublesome offspring.
Esau McCaulley Remembers His Past and Dreams
New York Times columnist, New Testament scholar and theologian in residence at Progressive Baptist Church in Chicago, McCaulley tells the story of growing up in a poor neighborhood in Huntsville, where he dreamed that football would offer him a way out.
Tim Keller, Beloved Pastor, dies at 72
Tim Keller, an influential Presbyterian Church in America minister who founded a network of evangelical Christian churches in New York City, has died. He was 72.
An Interview with Desmond Tutu
In his penultimate book, The Book of Forgiving (co-authored with his daughter, Mpho Tutu), Archbishop Desmond Tutu offered four steps to forgiving and healing.
Forgiveness: When Mercy Becomes Medicine
Unforgiveness can weaken your immune system, hike up your heart rate, increase stress hormones … But what unforgiveness puts out of whack, forgiveness restores to equilibrium.