Facebook and Faith

here is an interesting article about how Facebook is engaging people's religious views.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/29/AR2009082902400.html?referrer=emailarticle

Forgiveness

This past weekend Rob Bell spoke at our church. I know he is a great speaker, but I didn't realize how good of a teacher he was. Rob's talk about forgiveness was so good. He was clear, engaging, and stayed focused on the point he wanted to make. I was impacted by the content of his message. Check it out if you have time.

http://www.whchurch.org/content/page_173.htm

The points I took away were, Forgiveness is personal, always personal. Forgiveness is not condoning something, its not forgetting what happened, its not necessarily reconciliation, and it does not wipe away consequences. Forgiveness is letting go, stopping the cycle of revenge. Revenge can be active or passive, either way it is about not aligning with God's justice, revenge is taking things into your own hands apart from God. Revenge is about give back what has been done to you, someone hit you, you hit them back, some one yells at you you yell back, you respond in kind.

I had forgotten about forgiveness and this message was a powerful wake up call and helped me to release somethings I was holding against other people. It was very freeing.