Note by Dr. Bruggeman: The following essay comprises the highlights of a sermon presented by Pastor John Lovell in August 1953. Pastor Lovell (1907-1974) was the founder of First Covenant Church in Irving, Texas and of their publication, Kingdom Digest (KD), which has ceased publication. From our library collection of
Jubilee Forgiveness, part 16: Practical tips #6 & 7—Conclusion
This will be the final installment of this series concerning how to be a jubilee forgiver. We left off last time after giving you practical tip #5. Next, and this is really a logical outflow from rule number five. Rule number six in practicing jubilee forgiveness is that “It is
We left off in the middle of practical tip #3 which is: “We will want our offenders to forgive themselves and not feel guilty.” Returning now to our foremost Scriptural example of a jubilee forgiver, notice how Joseph did not want his offenders—his sibling brothers—to feel guilty. Thus,
We are nearing the final few blog-essays concerning our studies on jubilee forgiveness. We have shared with you the principles of jubilee forgiveness. More recently we have discussed two of seven tips on how to practice jubilee forgiveness. We continue from that point.
Before we go on, however, I want
God wins! Kentucky Derby's sign language in hindsight
As the post time of the Derby approached on Saturday evening I was in communication separately with two other brethren. After hearing on Friday that “American Promise” was in the race, I had not given a serious look at the rest of the field until about a half hour before
For decades some of us have watched the Triple Crown of horse racing with great spiritual interest. We often find the names of the horses to be biblically symbolic. This year is no exception as there is a horse with (currently) 30-1 odds named “American Promise.”
Many of our readers
We resume where we left off in part 12. The second rule on how to practice jubilee forgiveness is this.
2.) Do not allow your offender to be afraid of you or intimidated by you.
We find this also demonstrated by Joseph.
Genesis 45: 2 And he wept aloud: and
As we go about trying to put into practice the principles of forgiveness, one of the most common questions that arises in the minds of most of us goes something like this:
Well, just how can I tell when I have truly and completely forgiven an offender? I mean, I
Jubilee Forgiveness, part 11: Practicing Jubilee forgiveness
We are now entering the last phase of our study on jubilee forgiveness. This last phase will comprise several blogs based on a pair of lectures I gave back in early 2006. We will make a few modifications to update certain things but nothing to change the substance of the
