The Friend Who Forgives Storybook

By Dan DeWitt, Catalina Echeverri (illustrator),

Book cover of The Friend Who Forgives Storybook: A true story about how Peter failed and Jesus forgave

Book description

Bible storybook that points young children to Jesus, the friend who forgives.

Do you ever talk before you think? Mess up? Let others down?

That’s what Peter did, again and again and again, and it led him to abandoning his best friend, Jesus.

Peter loved Jesus. He felt terrible when…

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1 author picked The Friend Who Forgives Storybook as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As we dive into the difficult work of enemy love and peacemaking, we quickly discover that loving someone often begins with forgiving them. And further, once you forgive someone, this opens the door to authentic friendship.

I have some comical memories of saying “bless you” to a particular bully in school as though this were a magic trick that would completely change the situation. While it may have been a good start, I now realize that forgiveness is more about an ongoing posture of the heart than it is about using “magic words” to fix everything.

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