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    Author
    Miroslav Volf
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    Scripture
    Romans 3:23, Luke 6:27-28, Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:13, Matthew 6:14-15, 1 John 1:8-9, Proverbs 24:17-18
    Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

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    Each of us, Lord, has failed to fully

    Author
    Charles Teixeira
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    Ephesians 4:32, Luke 19:1-10, Matthew 22:37-39, Philippians 2:3-4, 1 John 1:9, Romans 3:23
    Each of us, Lord, has failed to fully observe your beauty. We fall in love with our own image and are left disappointed and alone. Please be faithful to us, Jesus, even when we turn from You. We...

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    The Two Conflicting Instincts with Shame

    Author
    Heather Davis Nelson
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    Genesis 3:7-8, Proverbs 28:13, 1 John 1:7-9, James 5:16, Galatians 6:1-2
    Shame has two conflicting instincts. It needs to isolate and hide, and it needs a community in which to be transparent. Hiding, of course, usually wins. It is the easier and more natural of the two. B...

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    Koinonitus

    Author
    John Ortberg
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    Scripture
    Ezekiel 47:9, Galatians 6:2, Romans 12:4-5, Matthew 28:19-20, 1 John 1:7
    The ancient Greek word for intimate fellowship is koinonia. In the church, we can suffer from what might be called koinonitus: fellowship turned in on itself; cliques and enclaves and tight-knit group...

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    Emil Brunner
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    Scripture
    Isaiah 55:7, 1 John 1:9, Micah 7:18-19, Romans 12:17-19, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32
    Forgiveness is the very opposite of anything which can be taken for granted. Nothing is less obvious than forgiveness.

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    Author
    C. S. Lewis
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    Scripture
    Luke 18:13-14, Romans 5:8, Mark 2:17, 1 John 1:8-10, Isaiah 53:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 3:23
    A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world H...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Scripture
    Romans 5:8, Psalm 103:10-12, Mark 11:25, Luke 6:37, 1 John 1:9
    To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

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    Hanging Out in the Dark

    Author
    Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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    Scripture
    Colossians 1:13-14, Matthew 5:14-16, Romans 13:12, Isaiah 9:2, 1 John 1:5-7, Ephesians 5:11
    A few years ago, a journalist named Joseph Blackman wrote an Op Ed on an interesting subject, “Why Clubs are Dark.” That is, why is it when you walk into a nightclub or a bar, the lights are off, or a...

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    Inspired by 1 John 1 & 4

    Author
    Scott B. Bullock
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    Scripture
    1 John 4:20, 1 John 1:5
    God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. But often, we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness. By doing so, we lie and do not live out the truth. We too easily claim t...

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    We confess, loving God, that we are not

    Author
    Chip Hardwick
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    Scripture
    Romans 3:23-24, 1 John 1:9, Ephesians 1:7, Philippians 2:3-4, James 4:6, Romans 12:2
    We confess, loving God, that we are not a society of saints, but a fellowship of sinners. We are the forgiven, who still need forgiveness. We are the redeemed, who are still being redeemed. We do not ...

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    Eugene H. Peterson
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    Titus 3:5-6, John 3:16-17, 1 John 1:9, Ezekiel 36:25-26, Romans 6:23
    Defilement is what sin does to us; damnation is what sin introduces as our eternal end. Except for God’s intervention. We have needs, and God addresses our needs. Even our sin, the most destructive re...

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    Author
    Barbara Brown Taylor
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    Scripture
    Luke 23:34, 1 John 1:9, Isaiah 53:5, John 13:10-11, Hebrews 9:22, Romans 5:8, Luke 22:31-62
    When Jesus holds up the cup and offers what is in it as the fluid of forgiveness, he is not talking to people with a short list of minor sins. He is talking to people who will turn him in, who will sc...

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    Eternal God, our judge and redeemer, we

    Author
    Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church
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    Scripture
    1 John 1:9, Psalm 32:5, Isaiah 1:18, Psalm 51:1-2, Micah 7:18-19, Ephesians 1:7, 2 Chronicles 7:14
    Eternal God, our judge and redeemer, we confess that we have tried to hide from You, for we have done wrong. We have lived for ourselves, and apart from You. We have turned from our neighbors and refu...

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    Disregarding God’s Prohibitions

    Author
    Mark D. Roberts
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    Scripture
    Romans 6:1-2, 1 John 1:9, 1 Corinthians 6:18, James 1:14-15, Matthew 5:27-28, Hebrews 13:4, Proverbs 6:32
    Some years ago I had a pastoral relationship with a couple of people who were deeply in love with each other. They believed that God wanted them to get married so they could consummate their love. The...

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    Source Unknown
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    Scripture
    Colossians 2:13, Acts 4:12, Romans 10:9-10, 1 John 1:9, Titus 3:5, Romans 5:8
    Good people don’t go to heaven, forgiven people do.

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    Author
    Catherine the Great
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    Scripture
    Romans 8:1, Isaiah 43:25, Colossians 1:13-14, Ephesians 1:7, Micah 7:18-19, 1 John 1:9
    Dieu pardonerra; c’est son métier; God forgives you — it’s his thing. *for contrast

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    The Bar and the Church

    Author
    Keith Miller and Bruce Larson
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    Scripture
    Matthew 9:10-13, Luke 15:11-32, Romans 3:23-24, 1 John 1:8-9
    The neighborhood bar is possible the best counterfeit there is to the fellowship Christ wants to give his church. It’s an imitation, dispensing liquor instead of grace, escape rather than reality, but...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Scripture
    Romans 8:1, Isaiah 61:7, Hebrews 12:2, Psalm 34:5, Romans 10:11, 1 John 1:9, 2 Timothy 1:7
    I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

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    N. T. Wright
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    Matthew 18:21-22, Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9, Mark 11:25, Colossians 3:13
    Forgiveness doesn’t mean that we don’t take evil seriously after all; it means that we do. In fact, it means we take it doubly seriously. To begin with, it means a settled determination to name evil a...

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    Author
    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Scripture
    Jonah 1:4, Psalm 51:, John 4:7-26, Genesis 3:7-10, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Matthew 11:28-29, 1 John 1:8-9
    Our inclination is to reveal to God only what we feel comfortable in sharing. Naturally, we want to love and be loved by God, but we also want to keep a little corner of ourselves, where we can hide a...

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    Author
    Albert Camus
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    Scripture
    1 John 1:9, Luke 22:61-62, Genesis 50:20, 2 Timothy 2:13, Proverbs 25:19, John 21:17, Psalm 41:9
    I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

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    George Herbert
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    Romans 12:17-21, Romans 3:23, 1 John 1:9, Luke 6:37, Mark 11:25, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

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    Author
    C. S. Lewis
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    Scripture
    Isaiah 55:7, 1 John 1:9, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, Romans 6:23, Galatians 6:7-8, Proverbs 14:12
    And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pl...

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    The Enemy is Us

    Author
    The Pastor's Workshop
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    Scripture
    Galatians 5:17, 1 John 1:8, Proverbs 4:23, Romans 7:18-19, Mark 7:21-23, James 1:14-15
    In a famous Earth Day 1971 Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly, the titular Pogo and his companion Porkypine are enjoying nature when they come upon a clearing filled with trash. Pogo says the iconic line,...

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    What is Fellowship?

    Author
    James I. Packer
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    Scripture
    Acts 2:42-47, 1 John 1:3, Hebrews 10:24-25, 1 John 1:7, Romans 12:4-5, Galatians 6:2, 1 Corinthians 1:9
    What is meant by fellowship in this verse? Gossip? Cups of tea? Tours? No. What is being referred to is something of a quite different order and on a quite different level. “They met constantly to hea...

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    The Golden Result

    Author
    Ken Sande
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    Scripture
    1 John 1:9, Luke 6:37, Romans 12:10, Proverbs 15:1, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32, James 5:16
    The Golden Result is a corollary to the Golden Rule, which calls us to do to others as we would have them do to us. The Golden Result says that people will usually treat us as we treat them. If we bla...

  • liturgy

    Take refuge in our God who knows we are

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    Scripture
    Psalm 103:14, Nahum 1:7, Psalm 46:1, Micah 7:18-19, Romans 8:1, 1 John 1:9, Hebrews 8:12
    Take refuge in our God who knows we are mere mortals. He forgives us for our sins, even though they were aimed at his loving heart. Rejoice that the Lord, out of his grace, will not remember our sins ...

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    Author
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Scripture
    1 John 1:7, James 5:16, Matthew 18:20, John 15:12-14, Hebrews 10:19-25, 1 Peter 2:9-10, 1 Corinthians 12:25-27, Ephesians 4:1-6, Romans 12:2-8, Galatians 6:1-2, Acts 2:42-47, Colossians 3:11-17, 1 Corinthians 12:12-20, Psalm 133:1, John 13:34-35
    Christian community means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. There is no Christian community that is more than this, and none that is less than this.

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    Author
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Scripture
    2 Corinthians 7:10, Isaiah 53:5, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 6:23, Romans 7:18-19
    This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

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    God of mercy, in your gracious presence

    Author
    Austin D. Hill
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    Scripture
    Ephesians 4:32, Micah 7:18-19, Psalm 32:5, Colossians 1:13-14, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Isaiah 1:18, 1 John 1:9
    God of mercy, in your gracious presence we confess our sin and the sin of this world. Although Christ is among us as our peace, we are a people divided against ourselves as we cling to the values of a...
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