Weekly Materials for Small Group Sessions

Homily Series for Lent 2021

An offense is a wrong or a perceived wrong that we experience. We live in an age in which people get offended all the time by how they are treated as customers, offended by people who believe different things, and get offended because we really are hurt by other people’s words and actions.

Offenses are inevitable. They can also be a trap that leaves us in a cloud of hurt, anger, outrage, jealousy, resentment, hatred, ENTITLEMENT, and probably most common of all BITTERNESS.

Living in offense keeps us from living joyfully the life we want to live. To live the life God wants us to live we must learn to avoid the bait, the trap of being offended.