Christ crucified for us is the assurance of God's love in the shadows of God's hiddenness.

In this excerpt, author Luke Cawley describes the cost of forgiveness as Jesus “bears the weight of reconciliation on his own shoulders so that our evasion, hostility, and all the accumulated grime of the years no longer need to come between us and God.”a

While the game is silly and fun when we are children hiding from our parents, God never wants us to hide from him—even when we fail him.

My husband didn’t want to be married anymore. I was seven months pregnant with our second son. 

I never understood why a Christian would need to forgive seventy-seven times. But then the sleepless nights wouldn’t stop.

It would be difficult to find words more precious than “I forgive you”—especially from God.

Forgiveness gave me back the friends I lost.

Those who have been forgiven much will love much.