Thanks for your patience during my absence for most of June. I’m back! I’m happy to see that there have been visitors all along, despite the lack of new posts. (And if my regular visitor from Germany sees this I’d love to be in touch with you — see the contact page to send an […]
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Role Models in Forgiveness
“Unforgivable!” That’s the cry when we are really hurting. I suspect sometimes it means “I can’t forgive that quite yet.” However, sometimes it sounds more like we are working with a confused definition of forgiveness. When I hear people talking about forgiveness it often sounds like they are thinking “Forgiveness means the wound in our […]
For All Our Physical Needs
They had always wanted a boat — and now they had it. They had always wanted to be in the open ocean — and now they were out there. They had never actually wanted a storm — but now they had one of those too. The pleasure of rolling on steady swells became pitching and […]
Celebration!
I got word today that two-thirds of the presbyteries in the Presbyterian Church (USA) have approved the new translation of the Heidelberg Catechism! If the next General Assembly gives final approval, it will replace the translation in my denomination’s Book of Confessions. Then, for the first time we will share the same version of this […]
Thy Will! No, No, MINE! No, THINE!
“It’s God’s will,” she said. “God told me this is what I am supposed to do.” I knew she wasn’t going to like it. I knew her and I knew what she was stepping into, and it was not a match. Fast forward two weeks. “It didn’t work out,” she said. Change of course. Back […]
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