Rational Mind, 4,900 times to fore-give

Sermon 2023.09.17 One of my children was talking about baptism at school with his friend. He told his friend that God forgives all your sins when you are baptized. His friend asked him, “What if you kill 1,000 people?” So my son said, “Well…God will forgive you, but he also will give you a consequence.”  Consider Genesis 50 and the death of Jacob. For better or worse Jacob was a patriarch who maintained a status quo. He was in some ways good, and in other ways not so good. He was kind of at the heart of a dysfunctional family. […]