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This Sunday we will resume our sermon series called: Reconcilable Differences as we consider the cost of UNforgiveness.
As we know forgiveness, in and of itself, doesn’t make the pain go away. We can’t easily forget the betrayal, we don’t quickly rebuild lost trust and we may have experienced some permanent loss that can never be restored.
There is a cost to forgiveness and also to unforgiveness. God leaves it up to us which we will choose. There are consequences to both. What consequences ultimately will be easier for us to bear? Join us as we consider the price of unforgiveness.
To prepare, read: Leviticus 19:15-18, Matthew 6:5-15 and 2 Corinthians 2:5-11.
If you were asked to name Jesus’s disciples, or the writers of the Gospels or the New Testament letters, you would come up with a list of names, men’s names. But what of the women who played important parts in early Christianity? Could you name any of them, or describe what the roles they played? Sadly, most of us come up short on this information. But this Sunday, our own Elder Eric Prugh will discuss “Women with Jesus,” so we will all have a chance to make up for this lack of knowledge and understanding.
This Sunday we will continue with part two of our sermon series on “Reconcilable Differences.” In this sermon we’ll consider whether forgiveness is optional. Are some offences just too horrific to merit forgiveness — for example, the murder of a child? If we forgive in such cases does it mean we are letting the perpetrator “off the hook” and perhaps granting them permission to offend again?
This Sunday we will consider two contemporary real-life stories and contrast these with Jesus’ parable of the Unforgiving Servant. How would Jesus have us respond…and why?
This Sunday we are going to shine a spotlight on some of the good work undertaken by Presbyterian World Service and
This Sunday we will begin a new sermon series on the topic of forgiveness called “Reconcilable Differences.” We hear far more about irreconcilable differences these days – usually in the context of failed marriages.
But irreconcilable differences are not limited to marriage partnerships as we well know. It seems that it is far easier to slap a label on another person: “liar”, “anti-vaxxer”, “deranged”, than to work to understand their point of view and to seek common ground. The society in which we are living in has been called a “cancel culture” in which people move very quickly from a place of disagreement or a revelation of some scandal to automatically and permanently wishing to punish, condemn and cast out the offending party.
When Jesus was teaching long ago, in the crowd were those who hoped to cancel him. When he forgave a man of his sins, they were outraged that he should have the audacity to claim to be God. As we know, over time they did try to cancel him, permanently and forever on a cross. Fortunately for them, and us, they didn’t succeed and instead were offered forgiveness.
So how can we forgive? And if we do, does it mean that we are foregoing justice? We will be exploring these and other questions in the course of the series.
I hope you’ll join us and invite anyone you may know in your life who might be struggling to forgive — whether that’s themselves or someone else.
On another note: Our choir is back! It will be wonderful to have them participate in worship once again after a well-deserved summer break.
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