Lingering Effects of Anger

Author and church minister Ed Rowell writes:

When I was young, a neighboring family came down with a devastating illness. Several of the children died, ...

Danger of Bitterness

Secrets can be destructive, no matter how long they've been buried, as residents of a Ukraine village found out. The Associated Press reported their ...

Is God Good?

Douglas Burford, a pastor in Mission, Kansas, writes:

His name was David. He was homeless and in his 40s, though his face suggested even more years of ...

Bathing in God's Forgiveness

There's a story about a traveler making his way with a guide through the jungles of Burma. They came to a shallow but wide river and waded through ...

Bitterness Kills

Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

A Precious Blade of Grass

Out of the history of Napoleonic France, Leonard Griffith has given us a moving story of a political prisoner by the name of Charnet. Charnet was thrown ...

Three Parts of Forgiving

To forgive someone involves three things. First, it means to forego the right of striking back. One rejects the urge to repay gossip with gossip and a ...

Bury the Hatchet Deep

Forgiveness is not that stripe which says, "I will forgive, but not forget." It is not to bury the hatchet with the handle sticking out of the ...

End of Discussion

Old gossip may ... be immoral, a means of locking another person in the past, tying a person to a past sin in a way that is anything but Christian. ... ...

As We Forgive Our Debtors

A man in conversation with John Wesley once made the comment, "I never forgive." Wesley wisely replied, "Then, sir, I hope that you never ...