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The Spirit of Forgiveness Part III
Today’s blog post is the third of five in a series on The Spirit of Forgiveness by Marc Fisher, my husband, for the week of Advent. “And you shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of [solid] hammered gold on the two ends of the mercy seat” (Exodus 25:18, AMP). But we must also realize that “And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work”, that it is all beaten out of gold! The willingness to bear tension is the willingness to suffer pain. Don’t miss that! God is the author of that tension. Pain is to defer immediate gratification for something distant and to wait on it…
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The Spirit of Forgiveness Part II
Today’s blog post is the second of five in a series on The Spirit of Forgiveness by Marc Fisher, my husband, for the week of Advent. “And you shall make a mercy seat (a covering) of pure gold, two cubits and a half long and a cubit and a half wide” (Exodus 25:17, AMP). Can you live with incompleteness knowing it precedes something whole that is yet to come? It is here but not yet here. It is like the kingdom of God is here yet not yet here. We have it in part but will have it in full. Man tends to not like things in part. But the…
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The Spirit of Forgiveness Part I
Today’s blog post is the first of five in a series on The Spirit of Forgiveness by Marc Fisher, my husband, for the week of Advent. “Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father’s] presence“ (Colossians 1:22, AMP). In 1994, in the course of only 100 days, the world sat back as it witnessed one of the more cruel and inhumane episodes in human history, the slaughter of over 800,000 people in the African country of Rwanda. Almost 20% of the country’s population was wiped out…
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10 Things Marc Learned From Marriage
I asked Marc to write 10 Things He’s Learned From Marriage as a response to the 10 Things I’ve Learned From Marriage. Enjoy his first official blog post (hopefully there will be a lot more where that came from)!! 1. There is always a deeper beauty to be found in your wife, it does only get better, when God designs something like marriage He knows what He is doing. 2. Taking time to stare into the eyes of your wife everyday is meaningful and well worth it. 3. Dying to self takes on a whole new reality. 4. It is harder to care for the things of the world when…
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10 Things I've Learned From Marriage
So Marc and I have only been married a month as of this Tuesday (tomorrow), but in my short few weeks I have learned a LOT about marriage. In fact, here are the 10 things I’ve learned from marriage. 1. The Little Things. It doesn’t matter who’s right if you brush first, then floss or floss first, then brush. 2. Marc is an amazing cook. 3. In sickness and in health…really means in sickness and in health. (We both got the flu on our honeymoon. To the person who gave us the flu at our wedding, we forgive you. But…) 4. Owning a home is a lot of work. There’s…
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The Power of Forgiveness
“If another believer sins against you, go privately and point out the offense. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back” (Matthew 18:15, NLT). The power of forgiveness. The Bible is pretty clear on forgiving others. With Matthew 18:15-18 as our guidebook, we are shown how to go directly to the person and show them if they have wronged you. I love how proactive the Bible is on forgiveness. Maybe it’s because the root of bitterness grows so easily. I tell you–after Marc and I moved into our new house we quickly realized how challenging our front lawn would prove to be. Those devil…
