Jesus offers forgiveness to the person who has sinned against us not from a position of ignorance, but from the position of having experienced what we have experienced.
In some sense, the entire New Testament outside of the Gospels can be summarized by “abide and obey.”
We cannot live into God’s full salvation and continue forward in our spiritual journey toward Christlikeness without sanctification.
We will experience the imprisonment and torture of bitterness if we fail to forgive as God has forgiven us.
Three of the Holy Spirit’s key works give us the power to fulfill the Greatest Commandment: to love God and to love others.
While the context of our spiritual formation is different, Jesus presents the same basic opportunities and questions to all of us.
God created human beings with an inherent passion to worship and serve. Therefore, we will worship and serve someone or something—and this is where habitual sin comes in.
Do you hunger for more—more from life, more from yourself, more from God?
