God will forgive me. Won’t He?

Reflect on Jeremiah 14 with me, especially verses 19–22. Have you utterly rejected Judah?  Does your soul loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror....

Psalm 51:1

“Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.”  Psalm 51:1 It’s one of the most precious verses in the Bible and, for sinners like us, one of the most instructive. What hope could a murderer...

Cover Sin With Love

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, was reminded one day of a vicious deed that someone had done to her years before; but she acted as if she had never heard of the incident. “Don’t you remember it?” her friend asked. “No,” came Barton’s reply, “I...