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Matthew 6:14-15 “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 [...]

Colossians 3:13 “Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” I think it is safe to say we have all been hurt by [...]

Ephesians 4:32 “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” Yesterday we learned that pride often keeps us from humbling ourselves and [...]

James 4:6 “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” Often times we do not want to admit we were wrong. This is usually because of our pride. God hates pride, and opposes those who [...]

Luke 9:62 “Jesus replied, ‘No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.’” When a farmer is plowing his field, he can’t make a straight row if he is [...]

Isaiah 42:9 “See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare, before they spring into being I announce them to you.” I will never forget the first glimmer of hope I experienced [...]

Isaiah 43:18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” After I had been in prison long enough to be free of all [...]

Philippians 3:13-14 “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on [...]

2 Corinthians 5:21 “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Jesus was made sin with our sinfulness, so that we could be made [...]

Romans 5:9 “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!” I have heard the word “justified” explained as “just-as-if-I’d” never [...]