BONUS: Share: Forgiving Others
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
“But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too” (Mark 11:25 NLT)
Forgiveness is an art. We coach our kids to forgive others by modeling confession and forgiveness ourselves and by using their sibling conflicts as examples, but it takes a long time and a lot of patience. Few things are as frustrating as one child giving an apathetic, “I’m sorry” paired with an eye roll.
But forgiveness is so important because it is one of the main themes of the gospel and it’s such a powerful way to share God’s love and grace with the people around us. Just as Christ forgave us of our sins, we must forgive others! James 2:17 goes so far as to tell us that faith without deeds is dead—meaning faith that does not produce good fruit is not faith at all. So if we claim to follow Jesus, we must follow his example of forgiving others! So it is really important that our kids learn to forgive others well.
God made forgiveness an important command and the cool thing is, he did not do it haphazardly. Forgiving others releases us from grudges and resentment, but forgiveness is also good for your mental and physical health! I love the way God cares for us so intentionally! Luckily, we don’t have to forgive on our own. We can ask God for strength to help us forgive others, the way that he has forgiven us.
This week, let’s pray that our kids will generously forgive others and reconcile broken relationships.
Lord, I pray that ____________sees forgiveness and reconciliation at home and learns to do it well. May they experience a holy unrest when they sin, may they freely confess, and seek to reconcile. When others offend them, may they be quick to forgive and offer mercy. I pray they are a model of forgiveness within their friend groups so that they can show Christ’s example of forgiveness and grace to those around them. Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome back to Pardon the Mess. I'm your host, Courtney Defeo, and we are on week 33 called |
| 0:19.9 | Forgiving Others. But before we jump into that, |
| 0:22.1 | I want to remind you that on June 2nd, it's a Monday, right as we kick off summer, we are going |
| 0:27.3 | to do an Instagram live and just pray together as a community over at Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:31.5 | So if you're not following us, I would love you to do that. Come on over to Pardon the Mess podcast |
| 0:35.0 | on Instagram and hit follow and then be looking |
| 0:37.9 | out, go ahead and put it on your calendar. I would love for as many of you to join me as you can, June |
| 0:41.8 | 2nd at 12 Central. And if you have to miss it because of work or your time zone or wherever you're |
| 0:47.2 | joining us from, it will be in there. But I thought it would be really cool. As many of us just listen to this as we get a chance and we pray together, it would kind of |
| 0:55.0 | be fun live to get together and do that. So June 2nd at 12 Central, come on over to Instagram |
| 1:00.2 | and just join me as we pray for our summer and for just thank God for what he did for the year, |
| 1:05.2 | the school year, and our kids, and would love to see you there. But as we talk about forgiving |
| 1:09.4 | others, this is a really heavy topic. |
| 1:12.0 | This can be a really hard topic. And I had two groups of people on my mind this morning that I |
| 1:16.0 | just want to recognize up front that some of you have been deeply hurt this year or deeply |
| 1:20.2 | hurt in your life, have some significant emotional pain that you're like, this sounds nice in |
| 1:25.5 | theory, but how could I possibly forgive that person or that |
| 1:29.9 | thing that has happened? |
| 1:31.1 | And I get that. |
| 1:32.3 | And I just want to pause and recognize that that is a really, really hard thing to do, but it's |
| 1:36.8 | still biblical. |
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