Here are some extra resources for further exploring Forgiveness
Books
Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace My best recommendation. It is not a fast or easy read, but more like a seven-course meal where you’ll be filled from start to finish.
How Good Do We Have to Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness - a closer look at how God's forgiveness enables us to forgive ourselves and the flaws of others.

Why Forgive - (free pdf) great stories on forgiveness - used to be titled Seventy Times Seven.
Forgiveness, the Passionate Journey: Nine Steps of Forgiving Through Jesus' Beatitudes - uses the Beatitudes as a way of framing the nature of forgiveness.

Movies:
Forgiving Dr. Mengele - a documentary about Eva who forgives the Nazis.
The Green Mile- just watch it!!
The War- a great lesson on loving your enemies.
Flatliners- many levels of forgiveness through the character's stories. Moral: only forgiveness can rid us of our "ghosts." My comment would be only Christ can offer true forgiveness.
Links:
Religionandethics/forgiveness

forgiveness-institute.org

Peace and blessings,
David Sellers
if you have suggestions on books, movies, or sites let me know...

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Every time someone preaches, things get left out. There's not enough space, time, interest, continuity to present absolutely everything. One of the reasons we started this blog was to offer some of what got left out. This Sunday's scripture, Philippians 3.17-4.1 was rich with meaning and thought. The apostle Paul truly put his keenest thought into this section of writing as he brought his letter to the Philippians to an end. In the sermon we talked about the destination guiding the journey--that living as a "citizen of heaven" meant we live with the values of the Kingdom now. This comic pretty much sums up the sermon.

But there are a few other interesting pieces of this passage.

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David sends these. They are a few additional sites dealing with confession. Some are discussion. Others offer places to confess. Enjoy!

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This Sunday, March 11 (the day you must change your clocks) we will continue our Lenten Series, RoadTrip. Over the past two weeks, we've talked about Detours and Road Conditions. This week we will look at Baggage. Every journey entails packing, but our ability to travel will be determined by how and what we pack to take along the way.

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