Our Resolute Hope Podcast

Forgiving Others: Prisons of Self-Protection

After being wounded, it’s normal to retreat within safe boundaries.  But when self-protection becomes a driving motive, boundaries can become emotional prisons.

Forgiving Others: For Our Emotional Health

Try as we might, we can’t ignore our wounds or stuff the anger that results.  This will drag us down or erupt and wound others – often those we love most.

Forgiving Others: Roots of Bitterness

Feeling angry after an offense is healthy, but rage and revenge are sin.  These might feel good for a while, but they can become roots of bitterness that defile many.

Forgiving Others: Be Angry But Don’t Sin

Feeling anger is a healthy response when others wound us.  It’s a crucial first step on the road to forgiving our offender … so we can experience our freedom.

Forgiving Others: How God Forgave Us

God didn’t wait to forgive us until we apologized.  He forgave us while we were His enemies, reconciling Himself to us and inviting us to reconcile ourselves to Him.

Forgiving Others: As Far as the East is From the West

Scripture commands us to forgive others just as God has forgiven us.  We must understand how He did this if we are to forgive in the very same way.

Forgiving Others: Confusing Verses

Some verses seem to show forgiveness as conditional, but the New Covenant teaches us otherwise.  In Christ, God forgave us unconditionally, and we are to do the same for others.

Forgiving Others: An Introduction

Forgiving those who wound us can feel like the hardest thing ever.  But doing so frees us from what others have done to us … and what we’ve done to ourselves.

Suffering. Part 19. When There are No Answers

God can be silent when we suffer.  We pray for understanding, but our words seem to go nowhere.  At these times, God offers us Himself, so we can see Him as we never have and receive the blessings we didn’t even know we needed.

Suffering. Part 18. Comfort for a Suffering Friend

Job’s friends teach us to be compassionate when others suffer.  They were purposeful in their actions, meeting Job where he was and suffering with him.  They gave the gift of silent presence, allowing Job time to recover emotionally.