Sermon #22 — Forgiveness: The Pathway to Healing

~ gachorpenning

Nipplewort with a Few Dame’s Rockets in the Background:photo by GAC.

Forgiveness is the God-created, God-empowered process by which we are healed from the bitterness that infects our hearts when they get wounded and by which we are set free from the bondage that bitterness produces in us.

 Sometimes we can convince ourselves that we can somehow get back at a person who has hurt us by withholding our forgiveness from them.  Usually, the person who has hurt us doesn’t much care whether we forgive them or not.  But what is certainly true is that unforgiveness always does us more harm than it does to anyone else.  The refusal to forgive is always deeply self-destructive.  Forgiveness is the pathway to healing.

Read:  Genesis 33:1-20 and Colossians 3:12-17.

Then, listen:  Forgiveness: The Pathway to Healing 

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Published by gachorpenning

I am a husband, father, and grandfather. A small, town about fifteen miles west of Pittsburgh is home currently, though several other places have served that purpose before this. I maintain a YouTube channel of Bible teaching videos and a podcast of Bible teaching audio. I like to make things in my woodshop. I like taking photographs and use a lot of them in my blog posts. I go fishing in the local streams and lakes when I can. For thirty-nine years, I served as a pastor of churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.

3 thoughts on “Sermon #22 — Forgiveness: The Pathway to Healing”

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