Links to Messages on Forgiveness

30 Good Minutes is a collection of inspirational videos and text featuring America’s finest religious thinkers, stories of personal faith, and reflections on spiritual topics, gathered from television broadcasts of 30 Good Minutes, a weekly ecumenical and interfaith program on WTTW 11 (PBS) in Chicago. 

Click here to view a list of over 30 messages on forgiveness. When the page for the message opens, at the top right on many pages, will be links that permit you to read the text, listen to audio, or watch on video.  Before each message, is a biography of the speaker and at the end is an interview with the speaker.

Click here to go to the 30 Good Minutes home page. 

Lewis Smedes is one of my favorite authors.  Below are links to 12 of his sermons that are on the 30 Good Minutes site.  I especially recommend "Five Things Everyone Should Know About Forgiving and "Does It Still Make Sense to Forgive?

Lewis Smedes
Program# 3010 "Does It Still Make Sense to Forgive?"
Program# 3429 "You Were Made for Joy"
Program# 3709 "Keeping Hope Alive"
Program# 3805 "How to Know Real Gift When You Get One"
Program# 3904 "A Good Friend"
Program# 4005 "When God Goes on Leave of Absence"
Program# 4101 "Five Things Everyone Should Know About Forgiving"
Program# 4201 "Standing on the Promises"
Program# 4320 "The Wisdom of Waiting"
Program# 4411 "Things I've Learned on My Way to Eighty"
Program# 4508 "Coping With Our Critics"
Program# 4607 "Amazing Grace"

If you are discouraged or depressed, click here to read a message titled, You Will Receive Double for Your Trouble.

If you have been sexually abused by a priest or any person involved with a religious organization, click here to go to Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.