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When someone offends you, there are only two options for what happens next: take offense or give forgiveness. And if you belong to Jesus, that really cuts the options in half 😳 Offense always gives us a chance to revert back to old habits and make unforgiveness feel justified because the pain is so real. But the gospel doesn’t just forgive our sins. It transforms us into entirely new people. A forgiven person becomes a forgiving person. That doesn’t mean the offense didn’t matter. It means the cross now has more authority over our response than the injury does. Jesus laid His life down for the very ones who sinned against Him. And now His Spirit lives in us. So when offense comes — and Jesus said it would — we don’t have to become prisoners of what happened to us. We can forgive from the life of Christ within us. ——— This is an excerpt from a book I wrote called “Obedience, Suffering, & Reward.” It focuses on discovering God’s redemptive beauty in our most difficult seasons. If you’re searching for strength in your struggle or how to find beauty in your brokenness, I would love for you to pick up a copy. You can get one on my personal site, NeilBroere.com, or Amazon ✌️

Forgiveness means the record of wrong is wiped clean. We all would say “Amen!” to this, but are you actually living in the freedom that forgiveness in Christ gives you? This is a two-fold blessing: on one hand, it means we come out from under the tyranny of shame and condemnation. On the other hand, it means we walk worthy of the sacrifice that set us free. Where we were once marked by rebellion and selfishness, we now walk in purity, holiness, and victory over sin. That’s the beauty of serving a God who keeps no record of wrong, His forgiveness empowers us to now be who He says we are: righteous and holy sons and daughters who are being transformed to the image of His Son🙌 ——— 📕 This is an excerpt from my first book, “Obedience, Suffering, & Reward: Discovering God’s Redemptive Beauty in the Struggle” - available on my website (NeilBroere.com) and worldwide on Amazon 📣 For more content like this, sign up on my website for my weekly email, BETWEEN SUNDAYS. 🎙️Also, subscribe to BETWEEN SUNDAYS | The Podcast on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. 🛜 For more resources, visit NeilBroere.com (link in bio) ✌️

Spiritual maturity is measured in the space between what you feel and what you say. That space is where the Holy Spirit can reveal the source you’re about to speak from: the first Adam or the Last? The flesh or the Spirit? We live in a world that rewards immediate reaction. Say it now. Post it now. Send it now. Defend yourself now. But the way of Jesus is so much slower. He wants us to not be ruled by impulse. To learn the difference between truth and timing. To see that having something to say does not always mean it needs to be said. There is an aspect of maturity that is so rare today. It’s the Christ-like quality of silence. “He opened not His mouth…” Isaiah 53:7 ——— 📣 For more content like this, sign up on my website for my weekly email, BETWEEN SUNDAYS. 🎙️Also, subscribe to BETWEEN SUNDAYS | The Podcast on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. 🛜 For more resources, visit NeilBroere.com (link in bio) ✌️

Episode 005 - Walk Worthy is now LIVE 🎙️ 🔗 Links in my bio 🛜 Search “BETWEEN SUNDAYS NEIL BROERE” on YouTube as well as all major podcast platforms In Ephesians 4, Paul calls the church to “walk worthy” of the calling we have received. But before he ever tells us how to walk, he spends three chapters showing us what God has already done. That order is ESSENTIAL. The gospel is not, “Walk worthy so God will bless you.” The gospel is, “Because God has already blessed you with every spiritual blessing in Christ…therefore, walk worthy.” In this episode, we walk through Paul’s language in Ephesians 4 and see how our lives are meant to carry the weight of the grace we’ve been given. And thankfully, God has not left us to walk worthy in our own strength. He has given us the Holy Spirit, gifted leaders, and the Body of Christ to form us, equip us, and mature us until the invisible Christ becomes visible through His people again. Refuse the lie of independence, walk worthy together, and show the world what God is like.