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The power of God to heal a marriage

...eason of growth and repentance, Brad returned to Melissa and asked for her forgiveness. After months of healing and mutual forgiveness, the two were remarried on their original wedding date. Brad offers final words of wisdom to those who are in the valley. “I couldn’t see the end and I couldn’t imagine what He was preparing for us. Then this reconciliation happened. He exceeded even my wildest expectations.” Key Scriptures:...

Type: Article Categories: Marriage + Family, Your Life

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How to have a good fight

...ude should line up with the Word. Forgive often: All relationships require forgiveness and grace. I saw a woman in couples therapy who had been deeply and emotionally harmed by her husband. She was ready to walk away. But he had a change of heart and it seemed genuine. He was truly repentant. She wrote out all the ways he had hurt her through their years of marriage. The list was 25 pages single spaced. Then, in their time away from therapy, he re...

Type: Article Categories: Relationships, Your Faith

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Suffering gives us an opportunity to show Christ

...nd. The two women appeared on national television the next day and offered forgiveness to the men who had killed their husbands for their faith. “In a Muslim context, that’s absolutely earth-shattering. Because in a Muslim context, if you hit me then I’m going to hit you back harder. If you kill one of my children, then I’m going to kill two of yours. That vengeance and that payback is so baked into the culture. These two ladies,...

Type: Article Categories: Spiritual Growth, Your Faith

Do you know how to apologize?

...erted effort to prevent the transgression from happening again. 5. Request forgiveness “Will you please forgive me?” The final step in the process of apologizing is requesting forgiveness from those we’ve wronged. For a minor offense, these steps can be taken quickly and the conflict can be resolved in short order. However, in a major case, it is important to be intentional as you work through the process of apologizing. Highlight: Do...

Type: Article Categories: Relationships, Your Life

Relationship repair

..., criticism, defensiveness, silent treatment, etc.), apologize and ask for forgiveness. This is a step of repair. Acknowledging that you were wrong to talk or behave a certain way, begins the healing. Hopefully, the other person will accept your apology. There are times when people do not. Then, there is little you can do. Most times, however, an apology and plea for forgiveness opens the door to talk. Once Bob apologized, so did Diane. They were...

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What is love?

...erve it -we’ve never deserved it either. • Love gives us a spirit of forgiveness because it is through forgiveness that Christ enables us to stand before God the judge. • Love causes us to do the things, big or small, that don’t please us, when another will see or experience the Lord through the process. • Loves leads us away and leads us to stay depending on the way of the work of the Lord in another’s life. Loves dismisses the...

Type: Article Categories: Biblical Studies, Faith Radio Blog, Your Faith

Do your excuses dishonor the Lord?

...haracter and to demonstrate repentance and the acceptance of His grace and forgiveness. Scripture is clear: those who glorify God don’t make excuses when they make mistakes. That’s because: 1. Excuses can be a form of pride In 2 Corinthians 11 and 12, Paul describes his sufferings and his work in the Lord. It’s in 2 Corinthians 12:7 that he shares the well-known words that God spoke to him “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perf...

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Learning values from our children

...of our day. Amy Julia shares a story about teaching her son what the word forgiveness means. It helped her have a window into how God must view forgiveness, and how much bigger his capacity to forgive is than anything we could imagine. During her parenting journey, Amy Julia came to a place where she started praying for laughter. What led her to that place and how did the answer to her prayer change her? You can learn more about Amy Julia on her...

Type: Article Categories: Marriage + Family, Your Life

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Brandon Heath on the power of music

...on he wrote the song is why it’s so special to him. “It was just an act of forgiveness. I didn’t have a record deal so there really was no motivation, other than I need to forgive somebody and I need to ask for forgiveness myself.” Brandon is a self-proclaimed introvert. He says that bearing his soul in a song like “I’m Not Who I Was” at first, was an uncomfortable idea. “I’ll be honest; I did not want that song to go on the first reco...

Type: Article Categories: Relationships, Your Life

Thief in Paradise

...orgive them. For they do not know what they are doing.” How could he offer forgiveness when they yet abused him? Why would he care about them? Unless he really was the King of the Jews. Unless he really was the Son of the Most High God. Unless this man really did come to set us free. For such words of forgiveness could not be uttered without unwavering confidence in who he was and an extra-ordinary love for others. While I was trying to make sense...

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