Category Archives: Faith & Witness

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What I Learned From Ms. Celie’s Blues

I’m poor … I’m black … I might even be ugly … but dear God I’m here … I’M HERE! (Celie, The Color Purple) I have seen “The Color Purple” too many times to count. I used to think I love it so much because

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Mysterious, Wonderful Ways

One of the Bible verses that has often made so much sense to me is one of Paul’s. I can honestly say that while I do not agree with many of the statements attributed to Paul, his views on salvation, love, the nature of Christ,

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Deliverance

Salvation is arguably the greatest gift God can bestow on a person. It is the testimony of many Christians that nothing in the world can ever compare to accepting and proclaiming the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin. Many of

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Forgive Them? Are You Crazy?

Several years have passed, but just thinking about an event with a past landlord can still set my blood to boiling. He sued my ex and me for “damages” to an apartment we left. We suspected he inflicted the “damage” himself so he could make

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Seventy Times Seven

For us to say that we forgive someone is one of the easiest things in the world for most of us. For us to feel it can, at times, be a long and difficult struggle. I have often said that I feel the reason that

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Forgiveness: The Alpha and Omega of Peace

I have been thinking a lot about forgiveness lately… During a recent sermon, the preacher said that the bigger God’s plan for our lives, or for God’s church, the harder the devil will try and ruin it. I wondered what does this means and what

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Forgiveness Means Letting Go

A famous British general once told John Wesley, “I never forgive!” To which Wesley replied, “Then, Sir, you had better never sin.” The only comment that Jesus made about his own “model prayer’ in Matthew 6:14-15 concerned forgiveness: “If you forgive others of their transgressions,

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The Difficult Task of Forgiveness

Forgiveness. When I read the topic for this issue, I decided I would sit this issue out. My partner asked why and I told her, “Forgiveness is my weakest area as a Christian, the biggest stumbling block I have in my walk with Jesus. I

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Coming Home

We as Gay and Lesbian Christians have a special knowledge, a significant experience with the forgiveness of God. For many of us, being lied to by mainstream Christianity caused us to walk away from the Christ of love. Coming back to God years later to