ABOUT the EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY after PENTECOST

Theme: The Forgiveness of Sins

– highlighting the Scriptures for the week –

oseph's brothers feared his retaliation. (Genesis)  Though they meant to harm him, God had taken their evil and turned it into good; Joseph would not repay evil with evil, but overcome evil with good.  There is no limit to the forgiveness in God's heart.  (Matthew)  While Peter sought to set limits on forgiveness, the love of God in Christ is boundless; it calls for all to forgive those who trespass against them as they have been forgiven.  So, too, it is within the church:  While there may be differing pieties, there are no struggles between those who do all things to the Lord's glory.  (Romans)  Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.