Posts with the tag “forgiveness”

Most of us have developed a habit of cleaning up before we come to God. We treat access to Jesus like a reward for progress rather than a resource for people who have none. But nobody lowered their friend through a roof because things were going well. Desperate measures are for desperate people. And desperate people are exactly who Jesus kept showing up for.  Read More

A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on a desert island with one can of food and no way to open it. The physicist says smash it. The chemist says heat it. The economist says: assume a can opener. Assume the problem away. Build your entire framework around a tool you do not actually have. Here is what kept me up this week. There is a day coming when the books will be opened. Every account will be reviewed. And on that day, assuming a can opener will not work. But Yom Kippur has always been a picture of something else entirely. A day when God silences the accuser and wipes the ledger clean in one moment. The question is whose account you are standing in when that day arrives. Read the full post.   Read More

Most of us have inherited a story about our family that we have never examined. Not the facts. The interpretation. The unspoken rules about what is safe to talk about and what gets avoided. The wound that became a tradition. Jeremiah says God forgives and remembers no more. That is not just a promise about your sin. It is a model for how you handle someone else's.  Read More