Things are a little quiet on the blogging front here at the moment. The nature of who I am and the work I do means that blogging here is eratic- one day loads the next few nothing! I refuse to apologise since despite the overwhelming (to me anyway!) size of my readership I still blog predominantly for me. If I dont feel like blogging, or (dare I even suggest it!) I have nothing to say, I wont blog just for the sake of it!
Am off to New York shortly and whilst there will be having a meeting of bloggers from three continents. Myself, vessel of honor and Messy Christian will be meeting at my hotel shortly after my arrival- this is since Messys visit to New York overlaps with mine. Any other New York bloggers out there who want to see me whilst Im there?
It’s all about forgiveness said Messy Christian in one of her truly memorable personal posts. This reminded me of a sermon I preached a while back on being a Peacemaker which had been inspired by the Ken Sande book of the same name:
In my notes I defined forgiveness as follows-
Forgiveness is
-Not a feeling
-Not forgetting
-Not excusing
Don’t say ‘it was nothing’
Rather,
Forgiveness means to DROP it
-I will no longer dwell on this incident.’
- ‘I will not allow this incident to stand between us or hinder our relationship. ‘
- ‘I will not talk to others about this incident.’
-I consign this to the past. I will not punish you for this incident or use it against you.
We need then to ban the use of the words always or never in our discussions with our friends and family about their shortcomings!
The sermon notes on the peacemaker, my sermon about forgiveness are available as well as an audio file of the sermon.
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