2. Does anyone have anything to confess?

3. The League Table of Desirable Human Experiences

4. Open confession is good for the soul - Scottish Proverb

5. More than good for the soul

6. WAR & PEACE

7. Reconciliation

8. Fruits of Confession  Forgiveness  Reconciliation  Peace of heart and mind  Joy in place of sorrow and shame

9. Definitions of Pride 1. A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect. 2. Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association: parental pride. 3. Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness. 4.a. A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class: These soldiers were their country's pride. b. The most successful or thriving condition; prime: the pride of youth. 5. An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.

10. Sorry is the hardest word...  I was wrong  I let you down  I hurt you badly  I shouldn’t have said that  I’m sorry

12. Psalm 51

13. David & Bathsheba “You are the man!” “I have sinned against the Lord.”

14. 1. Have mercy on me. 2. Blot out the stain of my sins. 3. Wash me clean. 4. Purify me.

15. Wash me clean in that cool river. Wash my soul in the pure water. Wash me clean in that cool river. Lord, make me new. Maggi Dawn c1994 Thankyou Music Used with permission CCLI 594

16. 5. Give me back my joy. 6. Create in me a clean heart. 7. Renew a right spirit within me. 8.Do not banish me from Your presence. 9.Don’t take Your Holy Spirit away. 10.Restore to me the joy of my salvation.

17. 11.Make me willing to obey You. 12.Forgive me (for shedding blood). 13. Unseal my lips so I can praise You.

18. 14.Look with favour on Zion. 15.Rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

19. Confession and Healing James 5: 13-16

20. More than good for the soul

21. Confession: The starting point for a relationship with God.

22. A battle you need to lose so you can win.

23. Repentance is the partner to confession True Confessio n

24. Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment.

25. Set us free from a past that we cannot change, open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image, through Jesus Christ our Lord, the light of the world. Amen