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 FORGIVENESS: GOD’S GREATEST GIFT

and the

CHRISTIAN’S TOUGHEST CHALLENGE

Falls Village Congregational Church

November 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023   2-3 p.m.

Jan Van Hemessen – The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, 1548-52

November 7The Problem Posed: Why Forgiveness is The Divine model; How people forgive
Matthew 6: 9-16; Matthew 18:21-35: Mark 11:25-26
November 14The Stages of Forgiveness
Psalm 137; John 8:1-11; Matthew 18:21-22; Genesis 43-50
November 21The Divine model; How people forgive
Psalm 103:8-14; Luke 23:34; Luke 7:36-50; Luke 11-24; Acts 7:54-60
November 28Forgiving and forgetting; What forgiveness does not mean; What happens when people do not forgive?
Luke 15: 25-32; Luke 17:3-4; Matthew 18: 15-20; Matthew 5:38-48

Supplemental Reading

  Lewis Smedes – Forgive and Forget. Healing the Hurts We Don’t Deserve

          The Art of Forgiving.  When You Need to Forgive and Don’t Know How


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