Category: Relationship
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A Choice to Shred
The author grapples with feeling emotionally overwhelmed, which hinders their creativity. The solution is found in differentiating between ‘forbearance’ — tolerating faults and offenses — and ‘forgiveness’ — purging them permanently, allowing for a refreshed mindset and unblocked creativity.
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Course Correction
It is said that to err is human. We at least accept man’s fallible nature. Indeed, at the very grand opening, our ancestors blew it. “Do not touch,” they were told. But… oops! Too late. They ate the forbidden (Genesis 1, 2). Human history is a long record of failures and flops. In most of…
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The Truly Prodigal

If you had any level of normal Sunday Schooling as a child, you would have picked up this word as one of your first themes from the Bible. And like me, detested the character the word is associated with – the prodigal son. But really what did this son do wrong? Seriously? You ask. Yes,…
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Friend of Sinners

One of our beloved hymns made a title popular for Jesus – “Friend of sinners.” And several songs, great songs I may add have the same theme. And you have likely preached a couple of times from that theme as I have. And songwriters and preachers alike, it is for the same reasons that we…
