THE FITNESS OF FORGIVENESS (5)
Scripture: Colossians 3:12-13
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Title: The Fitness of Forgiveness (5)
Series: Five Qualities All Christians Should Live By...
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Colossians 3:12-13
Col 3:12 KJV - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Col 3:13 KJV - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.
Sermon 1 - The Law of Love
Sermon 2 - The Mandate of Mercy
Sermon 3 - The Gift of Grace
Sermon 4 - The Foundation of Faith
Sermon 5 - The Fitness of Forgiveness
I - The Expectation of Forgiveness
II - The Exploration of Forgiveness
III - The Extension of Forgiveness
IV - The Expulsion of Forgiveness
V - The Exemplification of Forgiveness
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
This Is In The Concrete
Pastor Joel Gregory tells the story of a seminary professor who taught the Christian graces of love and forbearance for forty years until he retired. Occupying himself in his retirement years, he poured a new concrete driveway to his house. Finished, he went in to rest and get a glass of ice tea. Returning later to view his proud achievement, he discovered that the neighborhood kids were putting their footprints all in the wet concrete. The angry professor chased the kids down in a rage and beat the tar out of the ones he could catch. Hearing the commotion, the professor's wife rushed into the yard, saw the angry professor thrashing the kids, and began to reprimand him: "What a shame," she said. "For forty years you have taught love, forgiveness and forbearance. Now look at you! You've lost your testimony." To which he replied: "That was all in the abstract. This is in the concrete."
Yes, it's different when it is in the concrete isn't it?
Restitution and Forgiveness
Keith Drury is a writer from the Wesleyan Church and in one of his books he touch ...
Series: Five Qualities All Christians Should Live By...
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Colossians 3:12-13
Col 3:12 KJV - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Col 3:13 KJV - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.
Sermon 1 - The Law of Love
Sermon 2 - The Mandate of Mercy
Sermon 3 - The Gift of Grace
Sermon 4 - The Foundation of Faith
Sermon 5 - The Fitness of Forgiveness
I - The Expectation of Forgiveness
II - The Exploration of Forgiveness
III - The Extension of Forgiveness
IV - The Expulsion of Forgiveness
V - The Exemplification of Forgiveness
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
This Is In The Concrete
Pastor Joel Gregory tells the story of a seminary professor who taught the Christian graces of love and forbearance for forty years until he retired. Occupying himself in his retirement years, he poured a new concrete driveway to his house. Finished, he went in to rest and get a glass of ice tea. Returning later to view his proud achievement, he discovered that the neighborhood kids were putting their footprints all in the wet concrete. The angry professor chased the kids down in a rage and beat the tar out of the ones he could catch. Hearing the commotion, the professor's wife rushed into the yard, saw the angry professor thrashing the kids, and began to reprimand him: "What a shame," she said. "For forty years you have taught love, forgiveness and forbearance. Now look at you! You've lost your testimony." To which he replied: "That was all in the abstract. This is in the concrete."
Yes, it's different when it is in the concrete isn't it?
Restitution and Forgiveness
Keith Drury is a writer from the Wesleyan Church and in one of his books he touch ...
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