Book description Forgiveness: When it works and when it doesn't is a journal, a workbook, a way to reflect on your journey of forgiveness. Forgiveness is after all a process; it is a path, a journey, not a destination. You will learn from your successes. You have had more of them than you give yourself credit for. You will be encouraged to be gentle with yourself and to accept your feelings and frustrations when forgiveness appears not to work. Forgiveness often appears to happen spontaneously. Often we do not even recognize it when it happens. Times we overlook the fault or misdeed of a...

John reports conversations Jesus had with other people in a way that invites us to be full participants with them. Jesus had conversations with many people. Jesus and his conversation partners talk past each other because they want to take Jesus' words literally while he speaks figuratively. Five conversations are the focus of this study. Jesus and Nicodemus talk about being born from above or being born again. Jesus engages a woman of Samaria in a discussion about living water. After he heals a blind man, Jesus talks with him about sight and blindness. Standing at the graveside of one of his...