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FORGIVENESS

FORGIVENESS. Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God. FORGIVENESS. Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God. Have You Ever Gotten a Recipe Wrong?. FORGIVENESS. Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God. If Our Theology is Wrong, Our Understanding of God will be Wrong!. FORGIVENESS.

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FORGIVENESS

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  1. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God

  2. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Have You Ever Gotten a Recipe Wrong?

  3. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God If Our Theology is Wrong, Our Understanding of God will be Wrong!

  4. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God James 2:19-23 “You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you…

  5. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God …want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

  6. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham…

  7. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God …believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.”

  8. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Being Honest with God! The Prophet Elijah

  9. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God “So he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your…

  10. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God …prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.” I Kings 19:9-10

  11. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Being Honest with God! The Prophet Jeremiah

  12. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God “I am in derision daily; Everyone mocks me. For when I spoke, I cried out; I shouted, “Violence and plunder!” Because the word of the Lord was made to…

  13. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God …me a reproach and a derision daily. Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him, Nor speak anymore in His name.” But His word was in my heart like a burning…

  14. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God …fire shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, And I could not.” Jeremiah 20:7-9

  15. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Being Honest with God! King David

  16. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God “How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart daily?

  17. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God “How long will my enemy be exalted over me?” Psalm 20:1-2

  18. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God “’I will say to God my Rock, ‘Why have You forgotten me?’ My enemies reproach me, While they say to me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’” Psalm 42:9, 10b

  19. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God The Context of Complaint or Anger Towards God! When We Sense God Has Forgotten Us!

  20. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God “But Zion said, ‘The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.’” Isaiah 49:14

  21. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God The Context of Complaint or Anger Towards God! When God Allows Tragedy to Visit Us!

  22. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”John 16:33

  23. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God The Context of Complaint or Anger Towards God! When God Is Silent in the Midst of Our Need!

  24. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God “This You have seen, O LORD; Do not keep silence. O Lord, do not be far from me.” Psalm 35:22

  25. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Getting God’s Character Right! When Complaint Leads to Better Things!

  26. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Getting God’s Character Right! Discovering God’s Love and Purpose…

  27. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Discovering God’s Love and Purpose… …in Suffering

  28. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Elizabeth Elliot (In Passion & Purity) “Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering...

  29. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God …The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.”

  30. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Discovering God’s Love and Purpose… …in Transformation

  31. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Tullian Tchividjian “Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.”

  32. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Discovering God’s Love and Purpose… …in Faith

  33. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God Sinclair Ferguson (In The Christian Life) “True faith takes its character and quality from its object and not from itself. Faith gets a man out of…

  34. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God …himself and into Christ. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!”

  35. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God So… Once Again We Have a Choice…

  36. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God You Can Continue to Sustain Your Complaint, Your Anger Towards God, Blaming Him or…

  37. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God …You Can Come to Understand Him as a God of Love & Purpose who has Forgiven You through Christ!

  38. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God “I write to you, dear children, because your sins are forgiven through Christ.” 1 John 2:12

  39. FORGIVENESS Forgiving God: Becoming a Friend of God

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