Forgiven People Forgive People
Unforgiveness in the heart of a believer is more offensive to God than anything visible from the outside.
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Unforgiveness in the heart of a believer is more offensive to God than anything visible from the outside.
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Unconfessed sin weighs on a person the way expired food weighs down a house, it has to go.
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Every person is born separated from God and others by barriers that only Christ can remove.
See what this sermon became →Each one was written from a different sermon on forgiveness, in that pastor's own voice. Pick a sermon and read all five days free.
“Have you ever walked into a room carrying something heavy and hoped no one would notice? Most of us do it every week, not with luggage, but with unforgiveness.”
Read all 5 days of the devotional“David didn't just feel guilty in a vague, background kind of way. He felt it in his body. There was groaning. There was exhaustion. There was this constant, low-grade heaviness that followed him everywhere, because he had chosen silence over honesty.”
Read all 5 days of the devotional“Before Christ, that's exactly where we were. Not just socially awkward or spiritually underdeveloped, but genuinely separated from God. Far off. Without hope. But then comes one of the most powerful pivots in all of Scripture: But now.”
Read all 5 days of the devotionalReady-to-lead discussion questions, each set drawn from one sermon on forgiveness. Open one and take it to your group this week.
“Ephesians 4:32 says to forgive "as God in Christ forgave you." The pastor emphasized the tiny word "as", meaning the standard for our forgiveness is God's forgiveness of us. What makes that standard feel impossible? What makes it feel possible?”
Open the discussion guideFor groups that want to go further. Each guide works through one sermon on forgiveness passage by passage.
“Share with your group: Paul's letter to the Colossians was written to a church facing pressure from a blend of Jewish legalism and early Greek philosophy, a worldview that said spiritual progress was about”
Open the deep study guide“Freedom from sin isn't found by managing it better or hiding it more carefully, it's found by bringing it fully into the open before God and trusted community, where his grace covers what we cannot carry.”
Open the deep study guideShort quizzes that check whether a sermon on forgiveness landed. Each one was built from that sermon's actual content.
“How does the pastor describe the difference between forgiveness and trust, using the illustration with James and his car?”
Take the sermon quiz“According to Psalm 32, what physical experience did David describe when he kept his sin hidden?”
Take the sermon quiz“The pastor told a story about a World War II soldier whose body was refused burial inside a French cemetery. How was the situation ultimately resolved?”
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