Jesus' Strategy Towards the Self-Righteous

Jesus never attacked the sinner. He simply said, "I forgive you." Meanwhile, he attacked the self-righteous with a vengeance, because he knew ...

Can You Forgive God?

Some time ago I worked with a family going through a divorce. After the settlement was made, the mother called to tell me her 8-year-old daughter was ...

Love Transforms Enemies

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Sinners: Pearls in the Dust

Loving our enemies, then, does not mean that we are supposed to love the dirt in which the pearl is buried; rather it means that we love the pearl which ...

Unmerited Superiority

We are not happy because we are unforgiving, and we are unforgiving because we feel superior to others.

Useless Ideals

Quite frankly, I'm sick to death of ideals. I have so many ideals and I've been so frustrated by them, I really don't care for any more. What ...

Deep Cleaning

What happened to the reality that forgiveness of sin, before God or before humankind, is a spiritual cleansing, not just a coping skill?

Love Makes Confession Possible

Early in 1993 British police accused two ten-year-old boys of the brutal murder of two-year-old James Bulger. The two boys pleaded innocence. The young ...

Inevitable Error

Error is the inevitable consequence of living.

Mutual error is the inevitable consequence of living together.

Argument or faultfinding is the defensive ...

Forgiveness: The Obvious Solution

In The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, the cartoon character Calvin says to his tiger friend, Hobbes, "I feel bad that I called Susie ...