Faith Mending

Some evening thoughts on dried out churches and new revivals.

An Empty Husk of a Church late night reflections

Sometimes forgiveness is complicated. Sometimes we make it harder than it needs to be. What would it look like to live in a world that practiced more forgiveness?

What’s So Hard About Forgiveness? Thoughts with lots of questions

Forgiveness is hard. Forgiving others is one thing. Forgiving our old self...that's something else.

Restoration I was talking with a friend the other day about how little time I actually spend connecting with people from my past. I don’t really talk much to people from high school; I occasionally connect with people from college; they’re a few people from seminary, none from the school of social work, a c...

We all struggle with forgiveness in different ways. How to forgive others is talked about often. How to forgive ourselves, is a whole other story. Forgiveness can be complex and relearning the messages we learned around it is complicated too.

Finding Freedom I get it wrong all the time. My mind can be a terrible place to inhabit when those intrusive moments of relational failure walk around as though they own the place. I feel lucky that it isn’t a constant stream of “should’ves”, “could’ves”, and “can’t believe you did thats.”

Some thoughts on forgiveness. OT today, NT on Thursday.

Forgiving Debts The convenient things we forget about the Bible