Some sermons are theory. This one cost something.

In this episode of Subtext, Pastor Tim gets unusually personal sharing about the shelf he’d been walking past for twenty-five years. A name he never called. A wound he convinced himself he’d dealt with because he’d survived it. And what happened when he finally picked up the phone before he finished writing a sermon about forgiveness.

We’re in Matthew 6 — the Lord’s Prayer — and Jesus puts forgiveness in the same breath as daily bread. Not as an occasional spiritual exercise. As a rhythm. As essential as eating. And in Matthew 6:14, he says something that’s hard to sit with: the way you hold forgiveness from others directly affects how you receive it yourself.

This episode is for anyone carrying a name. A face. A season. A wrong that was real and undeserved and that you’ve been dragging behind you longer than you should have to.

Because God forgave you, you can forgive them.

Subtext is the teaching podcast of BridgePoint Young Adults at BridgePoint Church in St. Petersburg, FL.

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