Northeast Christian Church
The Parables: The Unmerciful Servant
God has chosen to take up residence in the human heart. The parables of Jesus give us a clear picture of the kind of life he wants to build in us. It's a better life than anything we can build on our own.
Locations & Times
Northeast Christian Church
2751 Patterson Rd, Grand Junction, CO 81506, United States
Sunday 9:00 AM
A PARABLE is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning.
-DECEPTION
-DIVISION
-DESTRUCTION
-DIVISION
-DESTRUCTION
Forgiving others is the most difficult thing God asks us to do.
Forgiving others is the most difficult thing God has to do.
Forgiving others is the most difficult thing God has to do.
The Perfect Tense:
-God forgave me.
-God is forgiving me.
-God will forgive me.
-God forgave me.
-God is forgiving me.
-God will forgive me.
Don't shift the blame. Shift the shame.
If we do not release the person, we will resemble the person.
If we do not release the person, we will resemble the person.
Relationships don’t thrive because the guilty are punished. Relationships thrive because the innocent are forgiving.
“I left my anger at the gates of that prison when I walked out in 1972. I just left it behind me and decided to move forward with my life.” -Douglas "Pete" Peterson
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” -Anne Lamott
“A state of unforgiveness is like carrying a heavy burden—a burden that victims bring with them when they navigate the physical world. Forgiveness can ‘lighten’ this burden.”
aphiemi = "to send away"
Forgiveness is not a feeling.
Forgiveness is not forgetting.
Forgiveness is not forgetting.
"The whole world can’t lick us, but we can lick ourselves by longing for the things we don’t have anymore and by remembering too much." -Grandma Fontaine, Gone With the Wind
I will never have to forgive someone as much as God has forgiven me.
TAKE AWAY: This is my chance!
TAKE AWAY: This is my chance!