We all like to receive letters. Long or short. Hearing from someone we love or have at least corresponded with at some time usually makes for a good day. The NT consists of 27 books, most of which take some time to read and study through.
But it also contains some very short books. Four to be exact. I thought it would be a nice change of pace after the sometimes grueling and grinding subject matter of Truth Decay to pause for a refresher. So for the next 5 weeks (not including Mother’s Day) I plan to cover the short books of the NT: Philemon, 2 John, 3 John and Jude (2 sermons). I’m calling the series Snapshots since they give us short pictures of the early church.
First up is Philemon. if you haven’t read it before I’d suggest you read it. What a wonderful book! And a wonderful series of lessons we can learn. The most important?
LEARNING TO FORGIVE.
I’ll be looking at Paul’s request he makes of Philemon and how it is calling on Philemon to make one of the greatest sacrifices anyone can make: to forgive when someone has wronged you. I’ll be talking about 4 things which happen to us when we fail to forgive. I’ll share them in a blog next week.
I’d like to invite you to join us in person or via live stream. And I’d also encourage you to pray and ask God how He wants you to forgive and whom He might want you to forgive.
So often, those small books in the Bible are overlooked, so I’m glad you’ll be bringing them to life, Bill.
Blessings!
Thanks Martha. I pray God will help me do just that.
Father, what a world we could live in, if we would learn to forgive, and to let go of all hurts against us. To ask for forgiveness and reconciliation with those that we have hurt. Jesus taught us well, now we need to remember how Jesus forgave us and we need to pass that forward.
You gotta wonder, Gail, what kind of world we would live in if we forgave like we should.