When Peter asked how many times he had to forgive, Jesus ended the counting: seventy times seven. 490 isn't a number. It's a way of life with the God who keeps no record of wrongs.
I teach it every week, wrote a book about it, and walk it out with men one at a time.
Without ever deciding to, we keep a record of every wrong done to us, and we cannot put it down. Jesus answered Peter's math with a number too big to track on purpose. Not a higher limit. The end of limits.
That is the whole of 490.life: Scripture taught plainly, a God whose forgiveness has no ceiling, and the daily work of forgiving others from a heart that has already been forgiven. Wherever you stand with God, this is a place to begin.
Northern Arizona University, classical music. Twenty-five years in technology and cybersecurity. Bass on the worship team at Scottsdale Bible Church, and discipling men through The Forge. Divorced, rebuilt, forgiven. Father of Austin and Izzy. More about David →
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Peter asked how many times he had to forgive. Jesus answered with a number too big to track, a story about two ledgers, and a word that means release. This study opens the Greek behind forgiveness and shows why the forgiven are the only people who can forgive.
Three commands of Scripture (repent, take every thought captive, be transformed by the renewing of your mind) turn out to be one campaign. The battlefield is your mind, and the Greek behind each verse shows you how the fight is actually won.
Jesus interrupts Passion Week to teach on prayer: all of heaven's resources are at the disposal of the believer who prays. Five necessities: remember, trust, believe, ask, forgive.
Nobody does this alone.Men's retreat · Flagstaff · 2024
Biblical coaching is not therapy and not a pep talk. It is one older man opening Scripture with a younger one, asking hard questions, and staying in the room. I've been forgiven of a great deal. That is the only credential that matters here.
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.Proverbs 27:17
Forty-five minutes. Where you are, what you're carrying, whether this is a fit.
A passage, a question, an honest hour. Forgiveness, identity, work, marriage, fathering, starting over.
Between sessions you do the thing you said you'd do. I check. That's the mentoring part.
Twenty years in boardrooms, fifty years in Christ, and one message: the God who forgives past all counting. Sunday services, men's breakfasts, retreats, and conferences.
Seventy Times Seven traces the scandal of grace from the heart of a holy God to the foot of the cross and back into the wounded places of ordinary life, because a river cannot flow from an empty spring.
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