Download or read book Forgiving Promises written by Susan A. Perkins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgiving Promises is the third volume in the Promises Series. It continues the inter-related stories of the people whose lives were touched by Yeshua during his time on earth. Our favorite Bible characters come alive in this charming story that includes their neighbors, families, and pets. Through this wonderful fictional telling of the story, our lives seem to merge with their own, and we too are brought face to face with the difference Forgiving Promises can make in our lives.
Download or read book The Peacemaker written by Ken Sande and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers." But it often seems like conflict and disagreement are unavoidable. Serious, divisive conflict is everywhere-within families, in the church, and out in the world. And it can seem impossible to overcome its negative force in our lives. In The Peacemaker, Ken Sande presents a comprehensive and practical theology for conflict resolution designed to bring about not only a cease-fire but also unity and harmony. Sande takes readers beyond resolving conflicts to true, life-changing reconciliation with family members, coworkers, and fellow believers. Biblically based, The Peacemaker is full of godly wisdom and useful suggestions that are easily applied to any relationship needing reconciliation. Sande's years of experience as an attorney and as president of Peacemaker Ministries will strengthen readers' confidence as they stand in the gap as peacemakers.
Download or read book Forgiveness Promise Possibility Failure written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inter-disciplinary collection explores the wealth of nuances surrounding the concept and practice of forgiving. The essays within this work ask what it means to forgive, what constitutes an appropriate space to forgive, what is to be expected of the victim and wrongdoer, what actions must be connected to political forms of forgiveness?
Download or read book The Healing of Nations written by Mark R. Amstutz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one forgive an international political transgression as deep as genocide or apartheid? Forgiveness is often conceived of as an element of personal morality, and even at that it is difficult. This book argues that it is also an essential part of political ethics, especially when dealing with collective wrongdoing by political regimes. In the past, a retributive justice demanding prosecution and punishment of all past offenses has kept the international community away from moving on to the next step in regime change. Here, Mark R. Amstutz takes a restorative justice approach, calling for nations to account for crimes through truth commissions, public apology and repentance, reparations, and ultimately forgiveness and the lifting of deserved penalties. The distinctive feature of forgiveness is the balance it strikes between backward-looking accountability and forward-looking reconciliation. The Healing of Nations combines a theory of the role of forgiveness in public life with four key case studies that test this ethic: Argentina, Chile, Northern Ireland, and South Africa. Amstutz uses the hard cases to illustrate the promise and limits of forgiving without forgetting.
Download or read book Right Now Counts Forever written by Robert Charles Sproul and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 1398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our Christian assertion is that there is more to our lives than 'now.' If there is not then even the now is meaningless. But we say now counts. Why? Now counts because we are creatures who have an origin and a destiny which is rooted and grounded in God." --R.C. Sproul ------ There is no such thing as a meaningless moment. Since we're made in God's image and created for His eternal glory, everything we think, say, and do today matters forever. The question is, How should this truth direct our daily lives? For more than forty years, Dr. R.C. Sproul wrote his recurring column in Tabletalk magazine, Right Now Counts Forever, to apply the teachings of the Bible and Reformed theology to everyday life. No topic was off-limits because every part of our lives bears enduring significance. Through the years, Dr. Sproul helped Christians give careful thought to topics in theology and history, politics and current events, relationships and entertainment, and more. In this four-volume collection, hundreds of Dr. Sproul's columns have been brought together for the first time. Written to serve the church, this treasury of theological reflection can help guide believers of all ages to live with eternity in mind and devote all of life to the glory of God.
Download or read book Redemption s Promise Exploring Atonement and Forgiveness in Hebrews written by Kenneth Caraballo and published by Kenneth Caraballo. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Redemption's Promise: A Deep Dive into Atonement and Forgiveness in Hebrews" is a spiritually enriching journey that delves into the profound themes of atonement and forgiveness found in the book of Hebrews. This 12-chapter exploration takes readers on a guided tour through the heart of Christian theology, offering both depth and clarity. The journey begins with an introduction to the book of Hebrews and the significance of its historical context. It quickly delves into the nature of sin, its origins, and the dire need for redemption and forgiveness in the face of human frailty. Readers will gain a deep appreciation for the preeminence of Christ as the High Priest and mediator, understanding how Jesus' unique role is central to the concept of atonement. The book unpacks the idea of covenants in the Bible and the profound implications of the new covenant in relation to forgiveness. The symbolism of sacrificial offerings is carefully examined, with Jesus' sacrifice presented as the ultimate atonement for sin. Throughout this journey, the role of faith in achieving forgiveness and reconciliation is highlighted, offering insights into the intertwining of faith, atonement, and forgiveness. The sermon draws from Hebrews 11, showcasing the remarkable faith of biblical figures and illustrating how their stories relate to atonement and forgiveness. Readers gain a deeper understanding of Jesus as the mediator and intercessor between God and humanity. The significance of blood in the Old Testament and its connection to atonement is explored, ultimately leading to a profound interpretation of Jesus' blood as the source of forgiveness for sins. Practical guidance on living a life of forgiveness and reconciliation is offered, emphasizing the transformative power of these concepts in everyday life. The theme of perseverance is also addressed, encouraging readers to endure in their faith journey. As the journey concludes, readers are left with a profound sense of enduring hope found in the promises of redemption and forgiveness presented in Hebrews. "Redemption's Promise" serves as an illuminating and empowering guide for individuals seeking a deeper understanding of their faith, offering a comprehensive exploration of atonement and forgiveness in the context of Hebrews.
Download or read book Forgiveness and Its Moral Dimensions written by Brandon Warmke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical interest in forgiveness has seen a resurgence. This interest reflects, at least in part, a large body of new work in psychology, several newsworthy cases of institutional apology and forgiveness, and intense and increased attention to the practices surrounding responsibility, blame, and praise. In this book, some of the world's leading philosophers present twelve entirely new essays on forgiveness. Some contributors have been writing about forgiveness for decades. Others have taken the opportunity here to develop their thinking about forgiveness they broached in other work. For some contributors, this is their first time writing on forgiveness. While all the contributions address core questions about the nature and norms of forgiveness, they also collectively break new ground by raising entirely new questions, offering original proposals and arguments, and making connections to the topics of free will, moral responsibility, collective wrongdoing, apology, religion, and our emotions.
Download or read book The Promise of Forgiveness written by Marin Thomas and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of love, forgiveness, and the unbreakable bonds of family from award-nominated author Marin Thomas . . . When it comes to family, Ruby Baxter hasn’t had much luck. The important men in her early life abandoned her, and any time a decent boyfriend came along, she ran away. But now Ruby is thirty-one and convinced she is failing her teenage daughter. Mia is the one good thing in her life, and Ruby hopes a move to Kansas will fix what’s broken between them. But the road to redemption takes a detour. Hank McArthur, the biological father Ruby never knew existed, would like her to claim her inheritance: a dusty oil ranch just outside of Unforgiven, Oklahoma. As far as first impressions go, the gruff, emotionally distant rancher isn’t what Ruby has hoped for in a father. Yet Hank seems to have a gift for rehabilitating abused horses—and for reaching Mia. And if Ruby wants to entertain the possibility of a relationship with Joe Dawson, the ranch foreman, she must find a way to open her heart to the very first man who left her behind.
Download or read book Guilty as Charged Forgiven as Promised written by Sally Simmone and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are good secretsthe kind that are fun and exciting, the kind that youre anxious to share. And there are bad, dark secretsthe ones you may hope and pray are never found out. Even so, like a blockage in a pipe that sends water to places it is not wanted, such secrets make themselves known. Guilty as Charged Forgiven as Promised is author Sally Simmones story of her struggle to rise from the depths of depression caused by the guilt and shame of childhood sexual molestation and wrong choices made as a young adult. Simmone finally broke under the load of secrecy and shame and shared her secret with a friend. With the events of her life open before her, the pain was more than she could bear, and she sank into a deep depression. After years of counseling and even hospitalization, her journey led her to discover the depth of her Saviors love. She shares some of the specific ways God brought her to where she is today and concludes with a Bible study on how one can find forgiveness from Godand oneself. The Bible teaches us to forgive others, even when it doesnt seem possible. Simmone emerged into the sunlight of knowing Gods healing and forgiveness. Guilty as Charged Forgiven as Promised can help and inspire those who live with a hidden secret to do the same.
Download or read book The Works of President Edwards written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vladimir Jank l vitch and the Question of Forgiveness written by Alan Udoff and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays focus on the work of Vladimir Jankélévitch as a moral philosopher, particularly that aspect of his work dealing with the question of forgiveness. They treat topics such as the place of moral philosophy in relation to his work as a whole, his relationship to contemporary French thought, and the backgrounds of classical Judaic tradition and world literature. The centerpiece of this tableau is Jankélévitch’s book Le Pardon (Forgiveness). Chief among the distinguishing characteristics is its rigorous defense of what might be termed a forgiveness free of the entanglements that taint the common understanding of forgiveness—what Jankélévitch refers to as pseudo-forgiveness. The advocacy of forgiveness in the name of political or social expediency, as well as the psychological benefit for the victim, are similarly repudiated. In their place, Jankélévitch substitutes a radical forgiveness that is “initial, sudden, spontaneous”—not able to erase the past, but able to create a new future and, thereby, a new relationship to the past. He does not permit even this future, however, to serve as forgiveness’s justification. For him, beyond all justifications, beyond justice itself, forgiveness is a gift akin to love.
Download or read book Forgiveness written by Robin Casarjian and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the philosophy of A Course in Miracles, Casarjian gives a new and surprising definition of forgiveness and provides original exercises and meditations that acknowledge our hurt even as they lead us beyond it. The book explores special cases involving family members, crime victims, self-forgiveness, and forgiveness of God.
Download or read book A Promise of Forgiveness written by Jo Ann Brown and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jo Ann Brown’s writing is both powerful and charming. She provides a respite from the cares of the day and gives the invitation to join her for a journey of peace that lingers in the heart.” —Kelly Long, national bestselling author Every little secret is a chain to the past… For Amish widow Naomi Ropp, moving back to her parents’ Bliss Valley home—with her boisterous twin toddler boys—is a chance to start over and bury the painful secrets of her marriage forever. But her life is turned upside down once again when she learns she’s not the only one hiding things. The parents she believed were always open and honest have been keeping a secret her whole life. And now her only confidant is her father’s new employee—a handsome Amish man who was once her childhood tormentor. Samuel King knows more than anyone should about mistakes—and the way he treated Naomi is at the top of his list. But the shock of seeing her pretty face again is quickly overshadowed when they find a slumbering boppli abandoned on his porch. Caring for the sweet newborn together is finally bringing some peace to their troubled pasts. But when a spark leads to growing feelings as they start to look toward the future, Samuel must find a way to convince Naomi to trust the man he's become…and the promise of new love. SECRETS OF BLISS VALLEY Secrets of Bliss Valley A must-read novel from Love Inspired: Stories to Uplift and Inspire.
Download or read book Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity written by Idit Alphandary and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Améry, to make sense of the catastrophe and to point to a way forward for both victims and perpetrators. The insights of these two writers and of several Jewish novelists and poets, including Bruno Schulz, Paul Celan, and Aharon Appelfeld, are used to develop accounts of forgiveness and resentment in other cases of mass atrocity around the world. The author offers a critical rereading of primary sources that aim to separate resentment from nonviolent resistance, and forgiveness from reconciliation. Forgiveness and resentment are not, as they might first appear, mutually exclusive. Together with Arendt, Améry, and Walter Benjamin, it is argued that it is through the interaction between them that victims of mass atrocity become agents of personal and cultural change. Together, forgiveness and resentment interrupt the present, reframe the past, and shape the future. They can reduce the chasm that separates memory and trust by fashioning new connections between identity and alterity, which can open paths to truly ethical coexistence for victims and perpetrators, and their descendants.
Download or read book The Forgiveness of Sin written by John Owen and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness written by Kathryn J. Norlock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The feeling that one can’t get over a moral wrong is challenging even in the best of circumstances. This volume considers challenges to forgiveness in the most difficult circumstances. It explores forgiveness in criminal justice contexts, under oppression, after genocide, when the victim is dead or when bystanders disagree, when many different negative reactions abound, and when anger and resentment seem preferable and important. The book gathers together a diverse assembly of authors with publication and expertise in forgiveness, while centering the work of new voices in the field and pursuing new lines of inquiry grounded in empirical literature. Some scholars consider how forgiveness influences and is influenced by our other mental states and emotions, while other authors explore the moral value of the emotions attendant upon forgiveness in particularly challenging contexts. Some authors critically assess and advance applications of the standard view of forgiveness predominant in Anglophone philosophy of forgiveness as the overcoming of resentment, while others offer rejections of basic aspects of the standard view, such as what sorts of feelings are compatible with forgiving. The book offers new directions for inquiry into forgiveness, and shows that the moral psychology of forgiveness continues to enjoy challenges to its theoretical structure and its practical possibilities.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Forgiveness Volume I written by Court D. Lewis and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Forgiveness is multi-dimensional and complex. As recent scholarly philosophical works on forgiveness illustrate, incorporating personal, relational, political, ethical, psychological, and religious dimensions into one consistent conception of “forgiveness” is difficult. As part of Vernon Press’s series on the Philosophy of Forgiveness, Explorations of Forgiveness: Personal, Relational, and Religious begins the task of creating a consistent multidimensional account of forgiveness by bringing together multiple voices from around the globe to analyze, discuss, and draw conclusions about how best to understand forgiveness. The volume’s three opening chapters examine forgiveness as a relational concept, and offer insights into the role of forgiveness in repairing, sustaining, stewarding, and healing relationships damaged by wrongdoing. Continuing with the relational theme, the next four chapters incorporate Hannah Arendt’s philosophical teachings (both her writings and her life) into the discussion to offer several intriguing conclusions relating to “unforgivable” persons and acts. The final chapters examine the nature of forgiveness from three major world religions: Buddhism, Christianity, and Confucianism.
