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Forgiving Yourself

11 October 2026 · Dr. Franklin Watts

Ephesians 2:1–9

A pause in the armor-of-God series for the subject on the church marquee: forgiving yourself. Dr. Franklin Watts argues that many Christians who genuinely believe God has forgiven them still refuse to stop punishing themselves — and he tells the story of Julie, a young mother whose counselor urged her to repress and bury her guilt until it festered into something that nearly cost her child's life. What she needed was not a psychiatric bandage over the wound but real forgiveness, and only God could give it. Her error was her picture of God: she knew His holiness but could not see His overwhelmi