Forgive
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Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller outlines the reasons why forgiveness has to be a central part of everyone’s lives.
Forgiving anyone in a meaningful way is one of the hardest things a person has to do. If you do not, resentment and vengeance begin to consume you. It is nearly impossible to move past transgression without forgiveness, but few people have the resources and the tools to forgive others fully and move on with their lives. Forgiveness is an essential skill, a moral imperative, and a religious belief that cuts right to the core of what it means to be human. In Forgive, Timothy Keller shows readers why it is so important and how to do it, explaining in detail the steps you need to take in order to move on without sacrificing justice or your humanity.
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Literally life-changing. Scripture makes it clear that we are to forgive, but I was having a hard time figuring out what forgiveness actually looked like in a practical sense. Keller pulls together all of Scripture's talk of forgiveness and presents it in a brilliant exegesis that blew me away. His exposition of the parable of the unforgiving servant alone was worth the price of this book for me and the example of Corrie ten Boom drove me to tears (then all over again when my pastor retold it some months after I finished this book).
There are several appendices at the end that give practical tools for the actual procedure of forgiveness and reconciliation. These were also very useful to me and offer an applicable "how-to" for everything discussed in the book. This is a truly wonderful piece of work to add to the shelf of any Christian.
