So, when you’ve really done something monumentally dumb, how do you recover?
Forgiving God.
Forgiving God may seem like an unusual concept in Christian theology. After all, isn’t God, who is perfect and sinless, the one who forgives us?
Restoring Hope in Relationships: Journeying Through the Tough Terrain of Heartbreak and Reconciliation
Broken relationships are an unfortunate but real part of life. They can leave you feeling lost, shattered, and questioning your own self-worth.
Broken us. 10 principles.
We are all broken in some fashion, aren’t we? And brokenness can manifest itself in broken relationships.
This is a theme I tend to return to often, Broken relationships are just excruciating. Let’s suss this out, and let me see if we can get some guidance here.
Love all. Serve all. Be mistreated.
Love all, serve all, be mistreated. My goodness. There’s all sorts of irony in the title of this blog. When I cobble these posts together, I purposefully try to be as broad as I can for people all along the faith spectrum. Most of the time, I’m writing what I want to hear for myself. […]
I’m sorry.
What makes it so hard for some people to apologize and simply say “I’m sorry?” Do they think it’s a sign of weakness? It is a belief that they’re never wrong?
Our hard hearts.
The connection between God’s sovereignty and human freedom is a big, big mystery from where I sit. People a lot smarter than me (and probably you) have grappled with this for literally thousands of years. It’s still a mystery, and I’m not gonna solve this here at my Macbook on a Tuesday morning.
What I am certain of, though, is that God, by definition, is completely good in His actions. If we think about our hard hearts, and how they came about, we have to acknowledge that we have a big responsibility.
Prayer for the nation.
I really wanted to address the events of January 6, but I want to wait a few more days because I want to make sure what I share is both reasoned and of God. In the meantime, I’d like to share, again, Lincoln’s prayer. There has historically been some question as to whether or not […]
4 ways to know you’ve truly forgiven someone.
It is unthinkable for a forgiven person to refuse to forgive someone else.
Sonder.
Sonder means the realization that everyone around you has their own life, friends, backstory, future, etc. That can be an earth-shattering concept.
Hi, I’m Tony, and I’m an empath.
These are challenging days, and for some of us, the challenges are compounded by our hard-wiring. What’s an empath to do?
2020: What would Jesus do?
As I’ve watched this sordid tale of the death of George Floyd unfold, I have yearned for peace. For rest. Not only externally in the tumultuous world, but internally in my own soul. I’ve looked as best I can at “what would Jesus do?”