Peter thought he was being generous when he offered to forgive someone seven times. Jesus's answer, seventy-seven times, was never about keeping score. In the first message of the new series "Living the Justice of Jesus," Rev. Rhoda Howell turns to the parable of the unforgiving servant in Matthew 18 and asks the question most of us would rather avoid: who do you still need to forgive?

Drawing on a deeply personal story about her own father, a man capable of erasing people from his life over a grudge he never explained, and the extraordinary story of a mother who forgave her daughter's murderers in open court, Rhoda makes the case that forgiveness is not about forgetting, excusing, or restoring full access to someone who hurt you. It is about refusing to let unforgiveness live rent free in your head. This honest, hard-won sermon is a reminder that forgiveness heals the one who forgives just as much as the one who is forgiven.