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Tough Questions in Times of Tragedy

In Idaho this week, two people died in a 16 passenger van rolled on black ice. The van was on cruise control and was being driven by a 25 year-old who had no special training and had only a regular drivers license. Thi…
Sometimes We Don't Realize We're Filthy: Sin Scars and Forgiveness

Sometimes you don’t realize how dirty something is until you clean it. I was in the bathroom today, getting ready to take a shower, when I noticed that the toilet could be a little cleaner. So I got out my cleaning st…
The Minister with a Conviction: Sex Offender

We have all done things we are not proud of. Certainly there are no exceptions to this rule. Whether they be infidelity, theft, or countless other legal and illegal wrong-doings, the things we've done in our past can…
Why Not Forgive Everything?: Learning from mewithoutYou

The band mewithoutYou has a creative song entitled Bullet to Binary Pt. II. In it they sing, “so why not, let’s forgive everyone, everywhere, everything, all the time.” Before this are the lyrics, “We all know we’re…
When You've Been Hurt, How Do You Forgive the Unforgivable?

Despite our many differences in belief, thought, and lifestyle, there is one fact that unites us: we've all been hurt, somehow, sometime, by someone. How do we forgive the person that hurt us, the seemingly unforgivab…
The Bound Will According to Switchfoot

By Todd at the Mockingbird blog I am my own affliction I am my own disease There ain't no drug that they could sell Ah there ain't no drugs to make me well - Chorus - There ain't no drug There ain't no drug It's not en…
Forgiveness vs. Repentance: What Makes Us Holy And Pleasing To God?

There are two mainstays in the Christian faith: forgiveness and repentance. Primarily we tend to focus on forgiveness. God forgives us, we forgive others(sometimes), others forgive us. It goes on and on, we are all fa…
Fresh To The Faith: Informative Insights From a New Believer

In recent years, an astounding number of cases against leaders of faith and religion have been made to light. This has a devastating affect on the local community Christian and non Christian alike, making some turn fro…
Autism and Forgiveness

Pursuant to my recent reflections on autism, a friend reminded me of how Dr. Helen Schucman, who was the scribe of A Course in Miracles, was so often able to be helpful to children with mental handicaps. At s…
My Heavenly Father, My Earthly Father, and Other Men

My father left me six times when I was a child. I never knew when he was gonna come back or when he would leave. I think I even blamed myself or my mother (I was angry/bitter at my mom too) for letting him leave so man…