Today we are concerned about the matter of forgiveness, God''s forgiveness of us and our forgiveness of others. According to the Bible, the two go together and can never really be separated.

James Knight is a Professor of Psychiatry, an Associate Dean of the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. Lately, he has been speaking and writing about some of the horrendous and overwhelming social and emotional problems people face today. He speaks from his own experience when he says, "I confess that the hospital and the clinic have furnished me the most revealing setting for understanding sin and the operation of the moral order." He says, "The abuse of one''s body or one''s sense of values results in physical and emotional illness. When one challenges or violates the principles of…