If I can wake up and say every morning like Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God,

have mercy on me a sinner, that I've sinned.

If that's not a daily practice, then I'm going to become pretty brutal to people that

offend me.

But if it is a daily practice, my heart softens and I can become much more generous to those

who have offended me.

Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.

I am Brandon Vott, the senior publishing director at Word on Fire.

I'm joined here with Bishop Baron as we continue our discussion on forgiveness.

A couple episodes back, we began by discussing an article by the popular Protestant pastor,

Tim Keller.

His article was titled The Fading of Forgiveness, Tracing the Disappearance of the Thing We Need

Most.

I've linked to the article in the show notes and I encourage you to read it.

Last time we spent all of our time on the first half of Tim's article, which was mostly

diagnosing why we've lost this practice of forgiveness.

So it was kind of negative and discouraging, but this discussion, we're going to focus

on the second half where he proposes how we can recover this lost practice, specifically

as Christians.

So before we get there, Bishop, exciting day at Word on Fire because for the first time

in a long time, we are launching a new film series and study program.

This used to be our bread and butter over many years.

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