1. You must examine the right person. So often, when we are struggling to forgive ourselves, the obstacle we face is a deep awareness of our own guilt. We KNOW we are guilty. We did it. Forgiving ourselves can feel like the moral equivalent of saying 1+1=3. It’s just not right and saying that it is right ...

“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. ” (Galatians 5:1, ESV) At first glance this verse might seem redundant. Why has Christ set us free? So that we’ll be free. Is Paul just repeating himself? What’s his point? The first thing I note is ...

My capacity to read scripture and, as I’m reading, to hear the message “you should try harder to please God” is quite impressive. A great example for me has been: “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, ...