You know, sometimes the best ideas for sermons don’t arrive while you’re staring at a blank page—they sneak up on you in the middle of someone else’s sermon. That’s what happened to me last week while listening to my brother-in-law preach. He said something simple, almost in passing, but it hit me like a hymnbook falling off the back of a pew: “Forgiveness is the sweetest word in the world.”
Now, I’m not usually one to steal material… but I am willing to borrow it aggressively, so . . .