Tag: forgiveness
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Slightly Obsessed #114: The Color of Forgiveness
This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. – Matthew 26:28 (NIV) The plan was simple and evil. When a racist opened fire on members of a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, he hoped to ignite…
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Slightly Obsessed #107: The Mark of a Believer
If someone says ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one whom does not love his brother who he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. – 1 John 4:20 He sat perched on the examination table, his gangly legs hanging over the side.…
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Slightly Obsessed #049: You Are not Forsaken
I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you. – Hebrews 13:5 Failure is a human condition. One month ago she climbed a silo at an abandoned concrete plant and jumped to her death. Before that day, twelve-year-old Rebecca Sedwick endured nearly a year of bullying by as many as fifteen girls…
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Slightly Obsessed #018: Kaleidoscope
So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. – Colossians 4:13 Racheal is a fair-skinned…
