Forgiveness
139 conversations where the hosts get into forgiveness.
139 conversations
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Dear LFTP: the $4,200 loan that never came back
- How do I get past the sadness over the $4,200 loan my friend never repaid — do I just let it go?
The final Dear LFTP letter: a year ago a supposed friend asked to borrow money — her husband had left the country to renew his visa, her car was repossessed, she had no way to get to work.
From No. 603 · Found Out
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Dear LFTP: the stolen college fund and telling the 90-year-olds
- Should I tell my 90-year-old parents that their grandson stole my granddaughter's college fund?
Ben hands to Mike, who reads a grandmother's letter: her son helped himself to the college money the great-grandparents set aside for her granddaughter; she fears telling her parents, in their nineties, could shock them into a stroke.
From No. 586 · Nothing Personal
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Dear LFTP: forty years of a cheating wife and a temptation
- Would it be wrong to rekindle an old friendship for intimacy when my wife has cheated for forty years?
A man approaching his fortieth anniversary writes that his wife has always been a serial cheater, a secret he kept to protect the children's view of her; with retirement and a sexless marriage he asks whether rekindling things with old female friends would be wrong.
From No. 581 · Silly Rabbit | Christianity, Culture, and Navigating Social Expectations
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Dear LFTP: the stalker ex-girlfriend
- How do I get my stalker ex-girlfriend to leave me alone?
Mike reads a letter from a man whose ex-girlfriend keeps trying to get him back, even stalking him, after he blocked her number.
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Dear LFTP: apologize to Harry?
- Should a mother apologize to her daughter's boyfriend for yelling at him during a move six years ago?
Mike reads the first Dear LFTP letter: a mother who yelled at her daughter's boyfriend Harry during a miserable move six years ago is now being asked to apologize; Harry has improved as a father but still holds the grudge.
From No. 574 · Starring Ted Danson as Joab
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Dear LFTP: the contentious father
- How do I protect the relationships I have with the rest of my family if my father keeps acting like a jerk?
Mike reads a Dear LFTP letter from a 30-year-old whose contentious father refuses counseling, involves extended family, and claims the writer cut off contact.
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Dear LFTP: long friendship broken by a theft accusation
- Are we oversensitive to feel insulted and end a long friendship after a theft accusation without an apology?
A letter asks whether the writers are oversensitive: friends of many years apparently think they stole items from their house, say it is in the past and they have forgiven them, but offered no apology, and the writers can no longer be friends.
From No. 562 · Enter the McCormick II
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Dear LFTP: decades-old infidelity discovered after his death
- How do I deal with my late husband's infidelity discovered decades later?
The heaviest letter of the night: a widow married 38 years learned in late-life counseling that her late husband slept with her sister early in the marriage and with his uncle's wife; now she can't face her sister in the hospital room and avoids family gatherings.
From No. 561 · The Answer is Liverpool
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Dear LFTP: Kurt and Jared, the feuding comedian brothers
- Dear LFTP: How should we handle our two grown sons' year-long feud?
Mike reads a Dear LFTP letter from parents of three grown sons: middle son Kurt (29) and younger son Jared (26) are in a year-long conflict after both took up stand-up comedy, with name-calling and holiday boycotts.
From No. 556 · A Christian Mid-Life Crisis
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Dear LFTP: the son who blames his mother for COVID
- What should a mother do when her adult son cuts her off after she accidentally gave him COVID?
Boova reads the second letter: a mother caught COVID in Hawaii, her 39-year-old son blames her for giving it to him, and now he will not speak to her.
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Dear LFTP: the album that slighted the stepmom
- Am I being unreasonable to ask my stepdaughter to reprint a photo album that slighted me?
The second Dear LFTP letter: a woman's stepdaughter Annie made her dad a photo album including his parents, grandparents, and pictures from his first marriage to Annie's mom —…
From No. 551 · BeliefNet.Org.Com
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Dear LFTP: the wedding no-shows and the holiday cards
- Should I skip sending holiday cards to relatives who skipped my daughter's wedding?
Boova reads a Dear LFTP letter from a woman whose husband's family skipped her daughter's wedding, then — while she was traveling — bought and sent holiday cards over her objection.
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Dear LFTP: paying a favor forward
- Is there a rule of etiquette that says you should pay a favor forward instead of repaying it to the person who helped you?
Mike (speaker-1) reads the first Dear LFTP letter (addressed 'Dear Life on the Path'): a listener gave a coworker rides to and from work for six months, then heard through another…
From No. 546 · For God or With God
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Ask the pastor: was Judah saving Joseph or profiting off him?
- Was Judah trying to save Joseph's life, or was he just vicious enough to profit off selling him?
The ask-the-pastor question comes from Genesis 37: with Joseph in the pit and the brothers set on killing him, Judah proposes selling him to the Ishmaelites instead - 'what profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?'
From No. 538 · Weekend At Bildad’s
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Dear LFTP: the disappointed grandpa and his estate
- Should the disappointed grandpa tell his family he is donating his estate to charity?
Mike (speaker-0, named at seg-00104 and seg-00250) reads the 'Disappointed grandpa' letter: a retired grandpa whose 50-year-old daughter 'hitched her wagon to an alky' and whose…
From No. 533 · You Can Buy Me Phalanges
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Dear LFTP: the cousin who announced mom's death on Facebook
- How can I get past the betrayal I feel toward my cousin who announced my mom's death on Facebook?
A listener writes that six years ago, after letting a cousin visit their dying mother in the hospital, the cousin posted 'RIP, aunt Sally' on Facebook before the writer had processed the death — and the betrayal still stings.
From No. 525 · Asking AI Lamech
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Dear LFTP: the drinking-establishment letter and rebuilding trust
- I exchanged numbers and agreed to lunch with a man I met while my husband was in class — how do I rebuild his trust?
A listener married four years (together ten) writes that while her husband was in a class, she went to a drinking establishment, met a man, exchanged numbers, and agreed to meet…
From No. 523 · This Is Not Love
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Dear LFTP: friends burned by the church
- How do I approach friends who have been burned by the church?
Mike reads a listener question: multiple friends were burned by the church — how do you approach them about coming back?
From No. 507 · What’s in a Name
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Saul's unauthorized sacrifice — isn't the Lord overreacting?
- Is the Lord overreacting when he judges Saul, Uzzah, and Nadab and Abihu?
- Can Jesus' approachable humanity coexist with God's prescribed, holy demands?
The hosts retell 1 Samuel 13: Samuel is late for the pre-battle sacrifice, Saul offers it himself, and Samuel declares he will lose the kingship.
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Dear LFTP: the estranged friend Adam
- How can I show an estranged friend I care when he won't speak to me?
A listener writes that a friend of many years, Adam — a high-school band and debate-club buddy — no longer speaks to him after something the writer only learned about secondhand, and Adam responded with hostility to outreach.
From No. 502 · When Evil Strikes
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God doesn't do back-alley bounty: public miracles and creation's pace
- Are there miracles where God stepped in but did not want people to know, after Jesus?
A host shares a painful story of faith healers who prayed over a friend with MS and then shamed him for lacking faith, and the room agrees this kind of story 'doesn't smell like God's glory.'
From No. 492 · Show Me The Toes
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Dear LFTP: christening versus the ballgame
- How should I respond to my sister skipping the christening to go to a ballgame?
A Dear LFTP letter: a writer's oldest daughter had her first child and sent christening invitations a month early; the youngest daughter (two kids, not named godparent) declined to attend a ballgame with her family.
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Dear LFTP: the husband's affair and the work of forgiveness
- I can't get over my husband's affair — what went wrong and should I stay?
Boova reads a letter from a 60-year-old woman whose husband of two and a half years had a two-month affair; counseling didn't help, and she keeps bringing the affair up while feeling stuck.
From No. 485 · Steadfast
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Dear LFTP: the sister's belongings in the garage
- My sister's belongings are still in my garage and starting to smell — what should I do?
A letter from a woman whose formerly incarcerated sister's belongings — stored in her garage 'for a couple of weeks' — have sat there for months and started to smell, while the sister won't communicate or take responsibility.
From No. 485 · Steadfast