Scripture
Matthew 4:10
Isaiah 43:18-19,21-22,24-25; Psalms 41:2-5,13-14; II Corinthians 1:18-22; Mark 2:1-12
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A mother was talking to her two children, Harold and Lisa, about the importance of forgiveness. Turning to her daughter, she posed a question. “Lisa, can you give me a situation in which you might ask for forgiveness?” The girl stared straight ahead, a blank expression on her face. There was a long silence. Finally Harold spoke up: “Don’t tell Mom, Lisa, save it for the Oprah Winfrey Show.”
The daily TV and radio Talk Show fare reveals that there is no shortage of men and women who are ready and willing to publicly air their personal problems — and the more public the forum, the better, it would appear. Moreover, most of their public stories tend to focus on the hurts that people inflict on one another.
Most often, the persons invited to “bare their souls” in this manner are being exploited for commercial reasons by their TV/Radio “hosts”: the more intimate, the more sensational their stories of human degradation, the higher the…
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