Category Archives: Forgiveness

Dealing with Uncertain Certainties, Part 1 ~ Adjusting Expectations

I’ve been working on balance issues lately. After six total joint replacements and some related complications, a few body parts have 

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Tax Relief Done God’s Way, Part 2 ~ Redemption’s Rebates

A brief look over our shoulder may be helpful in beginning today’s post as we pick up where we left off last week with the story of Jesus and a tax collector in Luke 19:1-7.  In Part 1 of our … Continue reading

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Unidentified and Uninvited, Yet Unforgettable, Part 3 ~ A ‘Nobody’ Challenges Everybody

For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been exploring an incident in Jesus’ ministry recorded in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 7:36-50). A Pharisee named Simon had invited Jesus to dinner, which, in those days, was a semi-public event. As we saw … Continue reading

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Unidentified and Uninvited, Yet Unforgettable, Part 2 ~ A Love Story Unfolds

The more we endeavor to explore the world Jesus lived in, the more we discover that there was almost always a lot more going on around Him than might appear on the surface. A prime example of that is the … Continue reading

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Unidentified and Uninvited, Yet Unforgettable, Part 1 ~ Setting the Stage

We spent the last few weeks exploring that fascinating interaction between Jesus and an unnamed Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. But that wasn’t the only occasion where an unidentified woman had a life-changing encounter with the Son of God – … Continue reading

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The “If” That Changes Everything, Part 3 ~ “Living Water” Begins to Flow

As today’s title indicates, this is the third installment in our current series, “The ‘If’ that Changes Everything”. As we saw in our previous editions, our story began with 

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