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Trying to preach on something like forgiveness is a real preacher-trap. It's one of those words, like love and truth and sweetness, that can so easily get reduced to the level of Hallmark cards.
Forgiveness is one of those topics and I have this fear that some of you are going to go home today and someone will ask you what did preacher talk about and you'll say forgiveness, and he's for it. So if you want to cut to the chase and get a Cliff' Notes version of the sermon, that's it. It's about forgiveness and I'm for it.
But forgiveness is not only a tricky thing, it's a word and a concept that is more foreign to most of our worlds than we seem to be aware of. And before going too far into forgiveness, I need to say the point in life is not learning how to forgive everyone you know over and over, day after day. The point in life is learning to associate with the kind of people and to have the kind of relationships that you don't have to forgive over and over, day after day.
Originally delivered by Rev. Davidson Loehr on 25 November 2001
The text for this sermon can be viewed online at
http://austinuu.org/sermons/
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© Davidson Loehr 2001
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