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Forgiveness on the journey

Lynne Baab • Wednesday December 10 2025

Forgiveness on the journey

In Christ, we are forgiven. We are called to forgive others. In Jesus’s lesson on prayer for his disciples, he gave us these words to pray: “Forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.” All of the various translations of Matthew 6:12 indicate that forgiving others is a normative part of following Jesus.

Praise God for those moments when forgiveness comes automatically and easily. For me, forgiveness has often been a journey. I want to describe three movements in my understanding of forgiveness.

1. A command that I simply couldn’t do. As I described in my recent book, I...

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Holy Spirit disruptions: Seeing people through the lens of Jesus’ cross

Lynne Baab • Friday September 17 2021

Holy Spirit disruptions: Seeing people through the lens of Jesus’ cross

My friend Elizabeth is telling me about her relationship with her brother and sister. Her parents were not happy with the some of the life choices she made as a young adult. This caused a disconnect with the whole family, and her siblings kept her at arm’s length for many years.

A few years ago, Elizabeth began meditating on Jesus’ death: the events leading up to the crucifixion, the betrayal by his friends, the pain of death on a cross, and the utter desolation of being separated from his Father. “When you really sit with those events,” Elizabeth reflects, “you can’t help...

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Quotations I love: Paul Tournier on building good out of evil

Lynne Baab • Wednesday October 12 2016

Quotations I love: Paul Tournier on building good out of evil

The most wonderful thing in this world is not the good that we can accomplish, but the fact that good can come out of the evil that we do. . . . Our vocation, I believe, is to build good out of evil. For if we try to build good out of good, we are in danger of running out of material.           —Paul Tournier

My father was an air force pilot, an officer. His precision as a pilot kept him safe while flying fighter planes in World War 2 and while flying cargo planes in the decades after the war. My mother...

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Do not ride in the car with Lynne . . .

Lynne Baab • Saturday November 7 2015

Do not ride in the car with Lynne . . .

. . . unless you want to get the occasional lecture. . . .

Or maybe it was a sermon.

Here’s what happened this past Sunday on the way to church. My husband, Dave, has been studying Jeremiah. Soon after we headed out, he said, “Jeremiah talks so much about idolatry. The Seahawks are playing this afternoon, and so many people will be glued to their big TV screens. I find myself wondering if there isn’t a lot of idolatry going on today, just like in Jeremiah’s time.”

“Wondering?” I burst out. “You find yourself wondering? I don’t wonder about that at all. I...

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